Creating a Course Site in Blackboard: Structure, Communicaiton, Consistency

Coming up with rules for designing your Blackboard course site can be tricky. Instructors use the sites for many different types of classes and for many different purposes. Regardless of the class or the purpose, using a Blackboard site successfully can be broken down into three things: 

1. STRUCTURE: Having a consistent, cohesive and intuitive structure for any course site is key for students to use the site successfully.
2. COMMUNICATION: Communicating your intentions for using a Blackboard site with your students and using Blackboard tools to communicate with students will greatly increase student satisfaction with using Blackboard.
3. CONSISTENCY: It is important to be consistent when using the Blackboard site. This includes consistency in the structure, language, tools etc. that are used throughout the semester.
   
   
   

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