| On your way to class with another three-foot stack of handouts to dole out? Just told to add a 16th office hour to your already hectic calendar? Wrist cramping from grading all those exams? The Blackboard Learning System can help you out! This rich, online course-management system provides you, the instructor, with the tools to easily present class materials on the Web, communicate online with an entire class, and track what the heck they’re learning in there — from the comfort of your laptop, if that’s where you’re working. Blackboard For Dummies is a kinder, gentler way to learn how to use Blackboard as an instructor. This book isn’t designed to be read from cover to cover (we won’t tell anyone if you really want to, though) — it’s the handy desk reference you’ve been looking for. Feel free to skip right to the essentials!
Blackboard For Dummies attempts to make the Blackboard Learning System easy to understand and use for all instructors, everywhere. It’s written to keep the average user from pulling out what’s left of his hair, the mid-level user from forgetting where everything is, and the advanced user from losing interest as she starts using the newest version of the program. We won’t go too deep, and we promise that it won’t hurt a bit. |