Strategies
- Blackboard Quizzes for overlearning
- Blackboard upload assignments and passwords!
- Find Resources via Blackboard & Google spell check
- Google Docs for collaboration
- Organising with a PDA and mobile phone
- Impatica PowerPoints with audio
- Blackboard colour and layout changes
- Forums for discussions
- Wiki used for collaborative writing
- Web of Knowledge easy to use
- Video clips from Blackboard to practice rooms
- Online collaboration Opera and email
- Microsoft Windows Magnifier for viewing Blackboard
- Blackboard reduce navigation options
Blackboard
5 Keywords: Blackboard, VLE, Virtual Learning Environment, Navigation, Download Files
Blackboard is a Virtual Learning Envrionment used by many universities. The company offer a series of Quick Tutorials about the teaching and learning environment. Several universities offer support for staff and students including the University of Southampton Blackboard e-learning site.
Accessibility of Blackboard's content management system is possible for use with most assistive technologies, however much depends on the person setting up the navigational style and adding content that is accessible in its own right. An example of what a screen reader user may encounter with Blackboard navigation has been provided by Madison Area Technical College Disability Services. There is also the University of Southampton guide to designing a Blackboard course.
Links
- Blackboard Accessibilty Statement
Blackboard have an accessibility statement and a PDF download related to the academic suite. They aslo provide links to WebCT accessibility infortmation.
- Making your module accessible (BlackBoard)
This is an article on Blackboard 5.5 by Carol Doyle, Accessible Curriculum Development Advisor, University of Wales Institute. The web page has a useful quick tip guide. - How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines
Jacob Nieslon explains how: "Microcontent needs to be pearls of clarity: you get 40-60 characters to explain your macrocontent. Unless the title or subject make it absolutely clear what the page or email is about, users will never open it."
