Steve McGraw

Tool:

Blackboard

Benefits for Faculty:

• Ability to use online interactive discussion
• User-friendly - "I can take someone who has never developed a course [on Blackboard] to a training session and within two hours, they would be able to set up a course on Blackboard."

Benefits for Students:

• Access - "Students can access distance learning courses at any time."
• User-friendly - "Students have given positive feedback."

Teaching Tips:

"If you are going to teach a course, give yourself a full semester before you teach to prepare yourself for Blackboard. The Health Sciences program took a conscious decision to move all of our courses onto Blackboard in Fall 2003. [Preparing for that] took the whole of the summer."