Using Blackboard Tools for the Provision of Student Feedback
Dr. Mary Slade (June, 2020)
Highlights:
Tip: When you share the screen to show a Blackboard course, reopen in a new tab to avoid the tunneling mirror effect.
Various Blackboard Tools may be used to provide feedback before, during or after assignments (formative assessment, drafts, constructive criticism, and summative assessment)
Tools include
-Voice Thread
-Panopto recording capture tool
-Polls collected at the end or synchronously.
-Surveys
-Tests & Quizzes
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Locate tools under Content Building
Voice Thread
–is built into Build Content tools
— click on it, give a title, enable evaluation choose 0 points for not graded.
–Give feedback before work is completed
–use voice thread to give audio feedback while reading a draft; can comment on each page and give examples.
—comment on groups, student journals, peer review, ask for self-assessment, reflective practice to think about the process.
Good to use feedback in field experiences before students complete a final writeup.
-each recording is a separate file; keep length to no more than 5 minutes, nolonger than 10 minutes for easy loading. Use Panapto for recording a long session.
-Ask students to give self assessment during the process (a rubric) part of class participation grade.
(execute a lesson…
-self and peer assessment – journal for discussion board and for each major assignment.
-can give feedback and save it instead of writing a separate email or responding in a Word doc.
3 communication tools in Blackboard
–Discussion board is not private (celebration feedback) can post work and give peer reviews, a gallery
-Group email –small or whole groups
-A course announcement –repeat several times; such as reinforcing APA style
-Summative feedback – gradebook; feedback, points and grades. My Grades 3 options in gradebooks – commentary on the doc, text box to instructor, and uploaded docs.
-built in tools in gradebooks –item analysis shows everyone’s results; models good practice of understanding; fair test items, column statistics share
Qualitative or Quantitative
can give feedback and provide a score option for one, the other, or both.
Quiz for Immediate feedback
-helps to understand developmental nature of a student’s reading ability.Which miss miscues are being used. Can put in a response to explain you got it wrong; constructive feedback
Live Polls, or later, or in the discussion, create an account,
Everybody have 5 minutes to think about objective for assignment –respond great, good, need help
-easier to make connections
-Ask for an initial post, quote 3 sources from provided sources. If I reply it will be public so do a summary comment at the end.
-Read comments, respected points of view. Provide direct feed in private gradebook.
-Create a new thread for discussions.
Guided feedback (mastery teaching approach) drives feedback patterns, ongoing rubrics
3 ways to send messages to the whole class
-announcement board to talk about assignment
-discussion board
-grade book
Grade book
-private to student
-use feedback box to student; click on the blue bubble (cannot read it on your phone, or iPad)
-can make annotated notes just for instructor (running record of thoughts)
-Option to use text boxes and inset comments and use a tool to draw (edit pen). Private only to students
-can add a pdf or Word docs only—default files for Blackboard.
-can come back and remove a comment