In your face-to-face class you

Examples:

Things to try to prepare for hybrid:

Professor of 21st Century Competency

1. Choose strategies to promote learner success

• Use Ice-breaking activities
• Develop an atmosphere of trust in the classroom
• Use classroom management techniques
• Motivate learners
• Identify and Support learners at risk

Use online communication in Blackboard to support your class; Manage and support to motivate learners and identify learners at risk

• Ice-breaking activity
• Welcome message
• Respond to learners and manage learner expectations (staff information, feedback, comments on discussion, email and email vacation message).
• Use attendance and assessment information to identify students at risk

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2. Create/use a course outline

• Use a course outline to plan a course and communicate expectations to learners
• Identify course learning requirements and align them with learning activities and assessments.

• Experiment with/Identify course learning requirements that can be addressed through online learning.
• Develop online learning activities that support your face-to-face course
• Develop online assessments that support your face-to-face course.

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3. Design the course

• Apply adult learning principles and a learning styles framework
• Ensure that there is a match between course learning requirements, the needs, interests and abilities of the learning, learning activities, learning resources and evaluation plan

• Use active learning strategies in your face-to-face class beyond the lecture model.
• Use peer-learning strategies in your face-to-face class.

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4. Create a course syllabus

• Create a weekly schedule as a planning document for learners

• Create a weekly planning schedule that includes selected online activities

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5. Select resources

• Locate materials that promote both lower order and higher order thinking skills

• Use online resource materials to support your face-to-face class.

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6. Create learning activities

• Create learning activities that align with course learning requirements

• Create out-of-class learning experiences

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7. Plan groups and forums

• Use peer-based learning techniques such as project groups

• Use out-of-class peer-based learning such as discussion boards and/or groups.

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8. Create evaluation strategies and instruments

• Create assignments that are aligned with course learning requirements and learning activities
• Develop protocols for the receiving, grading and returning of assignments
• Use strategies to assess the learners’ course experiences

• Create out-of-class assignments such as online assignments and tests
• Use peer-based evaluation and self assessment
• Receive assignments through email, Blackboard assignment feature or Digital Drop Box.
• Use online tools such as email and Blackboard Survey to solicit learner feedback

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9. Develop time management strategies

• Manage the amount of time learners and teacher spend working on this course

• Monitor and manage the amount of time learners and teacher spend on out-of-class activities

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10. Develop guides to manage email

• Exchange email with learners
• Manage learner expectations about response time, etc.

• Use Discussion Boards to manage email.
• Use Vacation Message to inform and manage student expectations.

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11. Develop guides for forums and groups

• Use discussion and project groups to support learning activities and course communication

• Use online discussion groups to support learning activities.

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12. Motivate students to attend in-class meetings

• Create an in-class environment that encourages learner attendance and participation.

• Ensure that use of online support materials does not lead to reduced attendance and in-class participation

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Use Blackboard to support your face-to-face class

Examples:

Professor of 21st Century Competency

1. Organize the Blackboard Environment

• Manage Course Menu and available tools
• Make unused folders and tools unavailable
• Make courses available
• Post Course outline and schedule
• Post Announcements
• Use Discussion Boards to manage email
• Post Staff Information
• Use Online Resources
• Attend Blackboard Basics Orientation

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2. Post Documents to Blackboard

• Post documents to Blackboard
• Create folders to organize documents
• Make documents and folders available and unavailable
• Use statistics to track the use of documents
• Copy documents within and between Blackboard courses
• Create Learning Units to sequence learning activities

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2. Manage directories, files, data and email

Use Images and file types effectively

• Use College-standard file types
• Add images to documents
• Optimize file sizes
• Use movies and sound files with Blackboard

Use File Management techniques in Windows to

• Store files in an organized fashion
• Store email
• Back up stored data

Use Blackboard Tools to

• Archive Courses
• Archive gradebooks
• Collect/Save/Archive Discussion Board Postings
• Convert WordPerfect files to College-standard MS Word or Adobe Acrobat formats.

Use tools to mark and return online assignments

• Use draw tools/text boxes/track changes in Microsoft Word to place comments on student assignments
• Mark assignments online and return them to students using the Assignment Tool or Digital Drop Box in Blackboard

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3. Use the Assignment Tool and Digital Drop Box in Blackboard

• Use the Assignment Tool in Blackboard to exchange assignments with students
• Use the Digital Drop Box tool in Blackboard to exchange assignments with students

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4. Use Groups in Blackboard

• Use the Groups tool to create private discussion areas for groups of learners, project groups, etc.

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5. Use Discussion Boards in Blackboard

Use Discussion Boards in Blackboard to

• Manage email
• Provide peer learning opportunities
• Answer learner questions
• Provide feedback

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6. Use the Virtual Classroom

• Use the virtual classroom as a meeting place for learners
• Use the Virtual Classroom for “Online Office Hours”

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7. Use PowerPoint effectively

• Use PowerPoint to promote active learning
• Post print-friendly outlines/handouts to help learners organize for active learning

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9. Create online quizzes and surveys

• Use the quiz tool in Blackboard to give learners opportunities to demonstrate their learning
• Create online quizzes from word-processor documents and question banks
• Use the survey tool to solicit information from learners.

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10. Use the Blackboard Gradebook

• Use the Blackboard gradebook to display results of tests and assignments for learners
• Back-up the Blackboard gradebook to excel
• Manage grades in Excel
• Import grades from Excel into the Blackboard gradebook

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11. Create external links to Internet resources

• Use external links to provide learning resources
• Linked resources open in a new window
• Create assignments based on the use of these resources

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12. Use electronic databases

• Provide links to online databases held by the Learning Resource Centre
• Create assignments based on the use of these databases

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