Strategy: Blackboard download files
9 Keywords: Electronic Resources, Blackboard, PowerPoint, Lecturers, Note Taking, Notetaking Hearing Loss, Dyslexia, Dexterity, Blind
"I have the lecture notes which are supplied to me before each lecture - PowerPoint, in PDF, sometimes in Word, it depends how computer literate the lecturer is.... Yeah then I print them off and take them to the lecture...."
"Some lecturers resent having to put up the lectures so they will just do it for the DSA students, so that will get sent immediately to my e-mail. Some of them do put them on for everyone because they realise they should be doing it." (last few words said quietly)
I tend to save the files rather than try to read them on-line as then you can go back to the notes and they are often easier to use than viewing from within Blackboard and then you can print the PowerPoint slides out as a handout.
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"I struggle in lectures without these crucial learning aids [lecture notes]. I spend so long concentrating on what the lecturer is actually saying. I neither assimilate the information nor have time to write down notes to annotate the slides shown."
- Hannah B.Tip
If you are using the Firefox browser, download all the files in a Blackboard folder at once (without requiring access to the Blackboard Control Panel). Use the add-on DownThemAll! 1.0.3 . Go through all the links on a page, check the ones you want, and download all of them at once.
