Blackboard Basics Workshop

Audience

The audience for this workshop includes faculty, staff, and others who would need training for the Blackboard online learning support system. Technology skills among these participants are dramatically varying, as are their background, age, and other demographic information. All are highly educated and specialists in their field. Many are highly motivated both intrinsically and extrinsically, while others are mostly interested because their students or their leadership demand online course materials.

Rationale

Blackboard Basics is a workshop facilitated by the Distributed Learning Resource Center (DLRC) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The stated purpose of Blackboard Basics is to provide an overview to the online learning support system (Blackboard) available at NPS and how Blackboard can be used to support traditional classroom-based courses and/or to offer fully online distance courses. This project was performed to verify that there is a need for Blackboard Basics and to formally state the audience, content, instructional processes, instructional strategies, and evaluation criteria for all facilitators.

This project was used to refine the existing Blackboard Basics workshop. 

"How to Use the Excel Gradebook" Lesson

This is a course for training teachers how to use an Excel gradebook. This hypothetical project was initiated because of the migration of records into a central database, resulting in teachers needing to use an Excel gradebook for grades. This would train them how to use the gradebook template and how to submit their grades.