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• Writing a Better Syllabus
  A syllabus is the first impression the students have of you and your course. This video production will show you how to make your syllabus a better representation of you, your course, and how you can use a syllabus to better manage your classroom.
  Watch the Video: Writing Better Syllabus
  
  
• Writing Multiple Choice Questions
  Examinations with multiple choice questions are perhaps the most common way professors evaluate their students’ knowledge. Despite their common usage, good multiple choice questions can be difficult to write. These three modules can be a first step to writing better multiple choice questions.
  Watch the Video: Part One - Definitions and Uses
  Watch the Video: Part Two - Guidelines
  Watch the Video: Part Three - Templates
  
  
• Writing Course Objectives
  Course objectives are the roadmap for your course. Properly written objectives inform students as to what they will learn; they also help you to choose the most appropriate teaching and assessment methods. This video production shows you how to write course objectives.
  Watch the Video: Writing Course Objectives
  
  
• Understanding and Creating Rubrics
  Rubrics are a scoring and evaluation tool that can be used with subjective assignments such as papers, projects, or presentations. Rubrics are beneficial to both students and instructors.
  Watch the Video: Understanding and Creating Rubrics
  Watch the Video: Creating Rubrics Using Rubistar for Teachers
  
  
• Customizing Your Blackboard Course Site
  Blackboard has many settings that can be customized, allowing instructors to design their course site to better match their instructional goals and practices. These brief videos explore the key issues and options for course customization.
  Watch the Video: Customizing Your Blackboard Class
  Watch the Video: Customizing the Settings Within Your Blackboard Course
  
  
• Integrating Discussion Boards in Your Teaching
  Discussion boards can be an effective means of engaging students in meaningful discussion of course content. These video tutorials explore the general use of discussion boards in Blackboard, as well as their application in web-enhanced and completely online classes.
  Watch the Video: Understanding Backboard Discussion Forums, Threads and Postings
  Watch the Video: Working with Discussion Board Options
  Watch the Video: Discussion Board - Advantages and Disadvantages
  Watch the Video: Using Discussion Boards in Web Enhanced Classes
  Watch the Video: Using Discussion Boards in Totally Online Classes
  
  
• Using Online Assessments in Blackboard
  Online assessment – for both summative and formative purposes – can be easily accomplished in Blackboard. These video tutorials provide an introduction to authoring, deploying and grading these assessments in Blackboard.
  Watch the Video: Overview of Assessment in Blackboard
  Watch the Video: Assessment Processes in Blackboard
  Watch the Video: Creating a Test in Blackboard
  Watch the Video: Using Pools to Create Assessments
  Watch the Video: Giving a Test in Blackboard
  Watch the Video: Grading a Test in Blackboard
  Watch the Video: Exporting and Importing Tests in Blackboard