How
to Login and Succeed at this Course - Also sent by email before the Course
opens.
Tasks
You Do During Getting Started
1. Go to https://wcjc.blackboard.com
2.
You see a Login Here section
on the left.
Before you login, notice the upper
right section of the screen with the link Help
& Resources. You will use that link to make sure your computer and browser work with this Blackboard.
FYI: I care about you all, but I am not a techy. WCJC’s IT can help (at Help & Resources). My 1 tech tip is—if your browser is not working or displaying what I say is there—try a different browser for a day.
3.
Follow the directions in the Login Here section for what you type in those 2 fields.
4. Login on the Blackboard log in screen.
5.
On the left side of the new screen see the words
My Courses.
6.
Look for our course and click on it.
Tip: the naming
conventions for Blackboard courses have changed so you may have trouble
guessing our course.
· If you are taking US History I, look for the letters WWW 18 in the name
·
If you are taking US History II, look for the
letters WWW 28 in the name
7. What you see when you click on the course varies with when you log in.
· If you log in in during Getting Started, Blackboard automatically displays Read Me First and the Getting Started Learning Module.
·
If you log in after Getting Started has ended, Blackboard displays the Home Page
and a list of Announcements.
Tip: If you did not finish
Getting Started work before the date in the List of Due Dates, email your
instructor in Course Messages (Blackboard’s email) for what to do.
8. When you are ready to start history work, click on Learning Modules on the Course Menu and then Unit 1.
Typed Names on Course Menu |
Explanation of What Each Thing
on the Course Menu Does |
Home Page |
When you come in the course, what you see 1st after Getting Started |
Read Me First |
When you come in the course, what you see 1st during Getting Started |
Contact Instructor |
Office hours, contact information – Ask! I am glad to help you. |
Syllabus & Schedule |
Use as a reference that is searchable using Ctrl-F (Ctrl with the F key) |
List of Due Dates |
The only way to know when to prepare and what’s due and when |
Course Materials |
Heading for the Two methods to locate Course Materials (work you do in the course): |
Learning Modules |
First method: Learning Modules (Blackboard’s name)–Safer method—Provides everything you need from study guides, instructions, lessons, to primaries—including all of the Blackboard tools you use from assignments to quizzes to discussions to exams |
Shortcut to All Graded Work |
Second method: Shortcut to All Graded Work–Provides only
Blackboard tools to submit work |
Course Materials |
Heading for Blackboard
tools that we use in
this course |
Discussions |
Blackboard’s tool for public communication or public submission of writing by students. Tip: Do not click on this link and hunt for the right one. Instead use a discussion inside of its Learning Module. |
Course Messages (Email) |
Blackboard’s tool for personal communications, such as your prof sending you feedback on writing. Tip: This is the fastest way for you to reach me. |
Announcements |
Blackboard’s tool for public news. If something has long-term value to students, I will copy it to General Course Questions on the Learning Modules page. |
My Grades |
Blackboard’s tool for your personal view of your grades in the Gradebook. Tip: Make sure that the upper right at My Grades shows Order by: Course order |
Help and Resources |
Heading for resources that Distance Education encourages us to provide or I provide for history |
Help with Blackboard |
Videos from
Blackboard to help you with Blackboard’s tools |
College/History Resources |
Inside you find 2 folders: · College links, such as to Disability Services · History links, such as an introduction to the discipline of history, a searchable and sorted US Constitution, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and to a map website |
The list of tasks for Getting Started is the same one in the Course Plan that you complete during Getting Started.
Assignment |
Points |
Take Syllabus Acknowledgement Quiz. (Caution: You must do it to stay in the course.) |
1 |
Post your Introduction in the Discussion available from Getting Started. |
4 |
Complete Your Course Plan for Your Grade and submit it in its Blackboard Assignment. |
20 |
Complete the Syllabus & Success Assignment and submit it in its Blackboard Assignment. |
15 |
Total for this Section of the Course |
40 |