Location: Queen Margaret University
Schedule
09:00 – 11:00
bookable one-to-one sessions with Blackboard TSM, Andy Hume. Please contact speacock@qmu.ac.uk for further details.
10:30 – 11:00 coffee
11:00 – 12:00
During this time, members of the BlackBoard team will provide an update on BlackBoard
12:00 – 12:45 Tim Squires and Stephen Vickers
“If only…” I’m sure that most academics working with any VLE will have muttered these words more than once. This presentation tells the story of my “if only” moment and how, through collaborative efforts, we ended up at “That’s Better…”
WebCT offers a range of assignment tools. Although all of these function quite adequately, none of them do exactly what I was looking for in exactly the manner I wanted. Hence the “If only…” And that thought would have remained just a thought had it not been for the work of our developer (Author Two) with the skills to turn ideas into reality and the involvement of a second academic (Author Three) who recognised the potential advantages of the proposal for her own programme.
12:45 – 13:15 A support update from BlackBoard.
13:15 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:00
Mike Bailey from Horizon Wimba will present to us: “Connect, engage and collaborate with your learners” His presentation will include Wimba “Collaboration Suite” integrated with WebCT which will allow you to build powerful engaging content for students and learners. Mike will show you how to create powerful content from Microsoft Word, deploy in WebCT, including Voice, Live Classes and much more.
For un-planned, informal communication, Wimba has “Wimba Pronto” a university, WebCT centric instant messaging tool. Pronto automatically populates its “Buddy List” from the WebCT single sign on and course lists.
15:00 – 15:40
A technical member of the BlackBoard team will hold a Q & A session
15:45 train to Waverley or:
• optional tour around the new campus at QMU
• bookable one-to-one sessions with Blackboard TSM, Andy Hume. Please contact speacock@qmu.ac.uk for further details