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2008 Blackboard Report - Oregon State University

1. Cumulative Cumulative Q4A Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 385 60 92 385 60 92 1 10 1 58 395 62 50 2 22 3 48 417 65 98 3 41 6 49 458 72 41 4 25 3 96 483 76 42 5 6 0 95 489 11 37 6 31 4 91 520 82 28 7 6 0 95 526 83 23 8 13 2 06 339 85 28 9 12 1 90 551 87 18 10 2 0 32 553 87 50 11 3 0 47 556 87 97 12 15 2 37 571 90 35 13 4 0 63 575 90 98 14 2 0 32 577 91 30 15 8 1 27 585 92 56 16 3 0 47 588 93 04 17 2 0 32 590 93 35 18 4 0 63 594 93 99 20 3 0 47 597 94 46 21 7 1 11 604 95 57 22 1 0 16 605 95 73 23 1 0 16 606 95 89 24 5 0 79 611 96 68 25 1 0 16 612 96 84 35 I 0 16 613 96 99 36 3 0 47 616 97 47 40 1 0 16 617 97 63 42 1 0 16 618 97 18 37 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q4A Total credit hours NOT using OSU Blackboard Q4A Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent 84 1 0 16 619 97 94 No response 13 2 06 632 Frequency Missing 207 100 00 38 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The MEANS Procedure Q4A Total credit hours NOT using OSU Blackboard Mean Std Error Lower 95 CL for Mean Upper 95 CL for Mean 3 2956381 0 2804086 2 7449688 3 8463074 39 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency
2. Q2 In which program is your major course of study If you have a dual major or cannot find your major in the list provided please check Other at the end of the drop down list and type your response in the box below z If you could not find your major in the drop down list above or have a dual major please type your response here 2 OQjJOo0 Oo o0 0 22 Q3 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 in which of the following OSU class locations did you enroll Click all that apply l OSU Corvallis Campus l OSU Cascades Campus l OSU Extended Campus l Other Describe Q4 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 what percentage of your classes use the OSU blackboard system 100 or all of my classes use OSU Blackboard 51 99 of my classes use OSU Blackboard 50 or about 1 2 of my classes use OSU Blackboard 1 49 of my classes use Blackboard O oO 0 0 5 0 or none of my classes use Blackboard am not sure 5 How important if at all are each of the following Blackboard tools for your learning process Not iiportani Important ME oe ponent basis for opinion a The ability to communicate with instructors by means other than face to C C C C C face b The ability to communicate with other students by means other than face to C C C C C C face C Having online access to course C C C C C C materials d Having online access to your course C C C C C C grades and scores 23 Q6 How effective i
3. Important 129 18 89 633 92 68 Somewhat Important 37 5 42 670 98 10 Slightly Important 3 0 44 673 98 54 Not at all Important 2 0 29 675 98 83 No response 8 1 17 683 100 00 Q5D d Having online access to your course grades and scores Q5D Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 2 0 29 2 0 29 Very Important 484 70 86 486 71 16 Important 133 19 47 619 90 63 Somewhat Important 42 6 15 661 96 78 Slightly Important 8 1 17 669 97 95 Not at all Important 9 1 32 678 99 27 No response 0 73 683 100 00 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys Q6 How effective if at all have the following OSU Blackboard features been for you The FREQ Procedure Q6A a Communication with instructors Cumulative Q6A Frequency Percent Frequency Cumulative Percent Not Applicable No Basis for Opinion 58 9 19 58 9 19 Very effective 92 14 58 150 23 77 Effective 31 22 347 54 99 Somewhat effective 21 39 482 76 39 Slightly effective 12 20 559 88 59 Not at all effective 8 24 611 96 83 No response 3 17 631 Frequency Missing 52 Q6B b Communication with other students
4. 2 4 42 04 214 42 04 I have used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom but do not plan to do so again 22 4 32 236 46 37 I have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with another outside the classroom because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs 42 8 25 278 54 62 I have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom because I am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose Other Describe No response Frequency Missing 330 50 51 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q11 In your opinion how effective are your students in making use of the OSU Blackboard system Q11 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Very effective 136 26 72 136 26 72 Effective 228 44 79 364 71 51 Somewhat effective 118 23 18 482 94 70 Slightly effective 15 2 95 497 97 64 Not at all effective 3 0 59 500 98 23 No response 9 1 77 509 Frequency Missing 330 100 00 52 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q12 To what extent do you ask for feedback from your students regardin
5. Clarity of links and getting around the website Them using the grades section None don t know all documents should be posted grading wish that the discussion feature was open for students to use without the instructor having to turn on this feature Instead of having course reserves at the library which sometimes you can never get ahold of just post everything online its much easier that way Actually post the grades That the instructors use either blackboard or the COB web page not both Most of them refuse to use it and if they do they only post the syllabus almost wish it were required for them to post their syllabi and grading progress No idea It would be that the instructors would actually use blackboard and make the resources available to students Know answers to quizes right or wrong after the time period of allowable testing Helps study for future tests without having to ask teacher Lecture notes online that are in some other format than PDF The weighted grading system Would like it to be accurate from the beginning rather than finding out the grades are wrong and then trying to bring them up last minute Make it more user friendly for professors so that they can be more organized in the way they import material and so that it s easier to keep up with grades Attentive to emails do not know would like it if all my instructor s would use blackboard like being able to see my grades and how
6. Encourage instructors to post in powerpoint not Acrobat think it should be required by all classes professors to use blackboard It s difficult when some classes use it and others don t Also think that what it looks like could be improved Make the Home icon at the top of the screen go to the blackboard home page not the OSU homepage always click on it trying to get my to blackboard home page And take off last names on the discussion boards make it more anonymous don t know or want to know the first and last names of everyone and don t want everyone to know my last name have none it seems great to me none Take off unused or underutilized tabs on the main page often find myself tabbing through entirely empty pages looking for something in particular There is little consistency in how instructors categorize things on blackboard Perhaps some general guidelines on where to put particular kinds of materials would help rarely use any of the features on the opening page and would rather have it open to My Courses really like the hotlinks on the opening page and it would be great to have those on each page within Blackboard As mentioned above make one course or lab have one site rather than two 155 like it the way it is Make the discussion board actually work in a way where it s easy for students in the same class to discuss assignments and get help from each other Some times it goes down in the mi
7. do not know More teachers would be encouraged to use blackboard Automatically show any upgrade such as having a star next to the course name or something else Ability to access classes from previous terms One thought is incorporation of a type of instant messaging system where students professors that log on are notified of presence of other students professor and are able to communicate instantly Require instructors to use it Can t think of anything at the moment outside of encouraging more faculty to post grades for their classes 160 did not use Blackboard system The OSU Blackboard system should be open source so that professors and students are able to modify the way the software works Also this would provide professors in CS with research opportunities related to HCl and security I ve used BB only once as a GTA for a lab class don t have much experience with which to comment Overall grade entry via spreadsheet download upload is OK The system does seem to have a lot of down time although that did not affect me It s good think there is a lot of functions that aren t actually frequently used there seems to be lots of extra stuff and a more streamlined cohesive design would be much more user friendly don t like having to hunt around in different screens to be able to access what need blogging issues in the past The ability to allow non OSU students faculty to have a log in My experiences with black
8. want to do and it seems much cleaner more efficient and easier to monitor than Blackboard 122 have no idea because of the registration problems have had with the system have NO idea have not used blackboard have used Blackboard 8 10 times over the last few years and find it to be cumbersome linear limiting and lacking the kind of qualities desire qualities gain by face to face interaction want eye contact inflection stammers tone of voice facial expression etc to figure out what students are asking what they seem to be learning and what they mean Now use Blackboard only occasionally to obtain an email list of class members have used Blackboard mainly as a means of providing course materials for the students posting grades so students were aware of their official scores and for communications with students announcements and e mails A lack of free time and other demands have kept me from further exploring the capabilities of Blackboard but self tutorials or some other kind of information transfer may help me get more out of Blackboard know that could learn a lot but finding time to do workshops is nearly impossible like it its OK like it and want to keep using it It allows my students and to connect from anywhere in the world whioch it becoming more important with the times we live in like it Students however still do not always check it on a regular basis even when rem
9. 26 0 31 575 89 70 27 1 09 582 90 80 28 0 78 587 91 58 30 1 09 594 92 67 31 0 31 596 92 98 32 0 31 598 93 29 33 0 16 599 93 45 34 0 16 600 93 60 35 0 62 604 94 23 36 1 25 612 95 48 39 0 16 613 95 63 40 0 62 617 96 26 42 0 47 620 96 72 43 0 16 621 96 88 45 0 16 622 97 04 47 0 16 623 97 19 48 0 78 628 97 97 52 0 16 629 98 13 60 0 16 630 98 28 84 e el alele e on Alel l ol B3 e NINI aI UA 1 r2 0 16 631 98 44 No response 1 56 641 Frequency Missing 198 100 00 35 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The MEANS Procedure Q3 Thinking about spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 approximately how many total credit hours did you instruct To calculate add the total number of credits per course you taught for the specified time period For example 3 courses with Lower 95 Upper 95 Mean Std Error CL for Mean CL for Mean 12 1679873 0 4038535 11 3749255 12 9610491 36 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q4A Total credit hours NOT using OSU Blackboard
10. 97 78 48 0 47 621 98 26 52 oI NIe IN Wl BR wle wHolel na 0 16 622 98 42 No response 40 1 58 632 Frequency Missing 207 100 00 41 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The MEANS Procedure Q4B Total credit hours using OSU Blackboard Mean Std Error Lower 95 CL for Mean Upper 95 CL for Mean 8 9356913 0 3812080 8 1870782 9 6843044 42 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q5 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 NOT using OSU Blackboard Q5 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent None 384 60 76 384 60 76 1 to 25 students 94 14 87 478 75 63 26 to 50 students 39 6 17 517 81 80 51 to 75 students 29 4 59 546 86 39 76 to 100 students 20 3 16 566 89 56 101 to 200 students 31 4 91 597 94 46 201 to 300 students 1 1 74 608 96 20 301 to 400 students 1 11 615 97 31 401 to 500 students 0 32 617 97 63 501 or more students 1 27 625 98 89 No response 1 7 2 8 7 1 11 632 Frequency Missing 207 100 00 43 Blackboard Review Sur
11. Describe 2 OSU Cascades Campus 0 Not Selected 3 OSU Extended Campus Var 6 Var 7 83 Fmt N1 Col 407 Name Q3 2 F Q3 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 in which of the following OSU class locations did you enroll Click all that apply 1 OSU Corvallis Campus 4 Other Describe 2 OSU Cascades Campus 0 Not Selected 3 OSU Extended Campus Fmt N1 Col 408 Name Q3_3 G Q3 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 in which of the following OSU class locations did you enroll Click all that apply 1 OSU Corvallis Campus 4 Other Describe 2 OSU Cascades Campus 0 Not Selected 3 OSU Extended Campus Var 8 Fmt N1 Col 409 Name Q3 4 H Q3 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 in which of the following OSU class locations did you enroll Click all that apply 1 OSU Corvallis Campus 4 Other Describe 2 OSU Cascades Campus 0 Not Selected 3 OSU Extended Campus Var 9 Fmt A250 Col 410 659 Name Q3 Other T Other Var 10 Fmt N1 Col 660 Name Q4 J Q4 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 what percentage of your classes use the OSU blackboard system 1 100 or all of my classes use OSU Blackboard 2 51 99 of my classes use OSU Blackboard 3 50 or about 1 2 of my classes use OSU Blackboard 4 1 49 of my classes use Blackboard 5 0 or none of my classes use Blackboard 6 I am not sure Var 11 Fmt N1 Col 661 Name Q5A K a The ability to communicate with instructors by m
12. Fmt N1 Col 40 Name Q14_3 AE Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe OzNot selected 9 No response Var 32 Fmt N1 Col 41 Name Q14 4 AF Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe 0 Not selected 9 No response Var 33 Fmt N1 Col 42 Name Q14_5 AG Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe OzNot selected 9 No response Var 34 77 Fmt N1 Col 43 Name Q14_6 AH Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested i
13. Q5A Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 4 0 59 4 0 59 Very Important 271 39 68 275 40 26 Important 246 36 02 521 76 28 Somewhat Important 102 14 93 623 91 22 Slightly Important 40 5 86 663 97 07 Not at all Important 13 1 90 676 98 98 No response 7 1 02 683 100 00 QS5B b The ability to communicate with other students by means other than face to face QSB Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 6 0 88 6 0 88 Very Important 128 18 74 134 19 62 Important 180 20 35 314 45 97 Somewhat Important 181 26 50 495 72 47 Slightly Important 124 18 16 619 90 63 Not at all Important 58 8 49 677 99 12 No response 6 0 88 683 100 00 64 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys Q5 How important if at all are each of the following Blackboard tools for your learning process The FREQ Procedure Q5C c Having online access to course materials Q5C Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 2 0 29 2 0 29 Very Important 502 73 50 504 19 79
14. choose not to use it and make they re own page which is difficult to go to as often It would be beneficial to have the button links on the side of each teachers page be customizable because most go unused in my classes or they just post everything under one link upload lecture slides one to two days before class rather than the day of class Post all grades quickly right after being graded and in order so that we can keep track of how we re doing organization none It S been all good so far Like the course document access at any time It s fine just maybe post more things Train professors a bit better on how to use and post through Blackboard Some have had issues with it yet others are wonderfully skilled Easier access Allow things to automatically be posted when they are uploaded Many of the professors uploaded the files and then when we didn t have notes in class they realized that they didn t push the button that allowed the students to see the file Check BlackBoard messages more user friendly would have them post all their lectures on blackboard so if you miss a class you can go on blackboard and see what the class went over that day would have them not use Blackboard at all It causes more confusion and frustration than anything else This has been my experience every year that have gone to OSU Set up file sharing system none Stop using it In no way do instructors have to operate within the current OSU blac
15. entering grades to more complex tasks on line discussion assessment other capabilities upload grades from Milne computer center easier Upload speed Use videos What said above When students work on tests and problem sets in Blackboard all managed by the test manager they often complain about getting error messages when they try to submit their work for grade This of course is very upsetting for them and they end up having to email me their answers for insurance It may be that the system is heavily loaded at the time they all wait til 119 the last minute but that is no excuse Makes for alot of extra work for evereyone Where all the courses are listed on the right side of the screen have a special box for courses being taught AT PRESENT They get lost in the jumble Often post things for a Fall section of a course that mean to post for the Winter section 120 Q18 A few years ago took a training course for about half a day on Blackboard but have found it so difficult to use that haven t tried since that time except when substituted for a colleague on medical leave when had help from tech saavy teaching assistants can explain this further if those conducting this survey are interested A tutorial that was online or on a disk would be nice because then we could study how to use Blackboard at our own pace All in all it s a pretty slick system couldn t teach my online classes without it Also o
16. Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q4B Total credit hours using OSU Blackboard Cumulative Cumulative Q4B Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 122 19 30 122 19 30 1 9 1 42 131 20 73 2 18 2 85 149 23 58 3 74 11 71 223 35 28 4 42 6 65 265 41 93 5 8 1 27 273 43 20 6 50 7 91 323 51 11 7 25 3 96 348 55 06 8 25 3 96 373 59 02 9 41 6 49 414 65 51 10 6 0 95 420 66 46 11 18 2 85 438 69 30 12 41 6 49 479 75 719 13 T 1 11 486 76 90 14 8 1 27 494 78 16 15 18 2 85 512 81 01 16 12 1 90 524 82 91 17 4 0 63 528 83 54 18 14 2 22 542 85 76 19 3 0 47 545 86 23 20 10 1 58 555 87 82 21 5 0 79 560 88 61 22 1 0 16 561 88 77 23 1 0 16 562 88 92 24 14 2 22 576 91 14 25 4 0 63 580 91 77 26 1 0 16 581 91 93 27 6 0 95 587 92 88 28 6 0 95 593 93 83 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q4B Total credit hours using OSU Blackboard Q4B Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent 30 0 79 598 94 62 31 0 16 599 94 78 32 0 32 601 95 09 33 0 16 602 95 25 35 0 47 605 95 73 36 0 63 609 96 36 39 0 16 610 96 52 40 0 47 613 96 99 42 0 32 615 97 31 45 0 16 616 97 47 47 0 32 618
17. Director Technology Across the Curriculum Co Chair Computing resources Committee at Jon Dorbolo oregonstate edu If you have technical issues with the survey please reply to this email at src oregonstate edu Should you have questions about your rights as a research participant please contact the Oregon State University Institutional Review Board IRB Human Protection Administrator at 541 737 4933 or by email at IRB oregonstate edu 14 Student 2 follow up email Dear OSU Student Just before finals week we emailed you a request to complete the OSU Blackboard Review Survey We recognize this was a busy time for you This survey is very important for all students to help us improve Blackboard for your education here at Oregon State University Please take a few minutes and respond to this survey Even if you have not had experience with Blackboard taking the survey will still determine the proportion of the student body not utilizing the Blackboard system This will also give us a chance to learn about your own educational technology needs This is very important for us know The survey can be found online at http www stat oregonstate edu Blackboard Students Once there you will need a PIN number to access the survey Your personal PIN number is XXXX OSU Information Services has been asked by the OSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the Computer Resources Committee CRC to evaluate the OSU Blackboard system In mak
18. Health 19 Computational Physics 20 Computer Science 21 Crop Science 22 Cultural Historic Aspects of the Near Environment 80 81 23 Early Childhood Development and Education 24 Earth Information Science and Technology 25 Economics 26 English 27 Entrepreneurship 28 Environmental Engineering 29 Environmental Geosciences 30 Environmental Health 31 Environmental Sciences 32 Equine Science 33 Ethnic Studies 34 Exercise and Sport Science 35 Exercise Physiology 36 Fermentation Science 37 Fisheries and Wildlife 38 Food Science 39 Food Systems Management 40 Food Technology 41 Forest Management 42 Forest Products 43 Recreation Resource Management 44 French 45 Geology 46 German 47 Health Management Policy 48 History 49 Horticulture 50 International Agricultural Development 51 Irrigation Engineering 52 Japanese 53 Mathematical Sciences 54 Mathematics 55 Merchandising Management 56 Microbiology 57 Military Science 58 Multimedia 59 Music 60 Natural Resource and Environmental Law and Policy 61 Natural Resources 62 Naval Sciences 63 New Media Communication 64 North American Environmental Sciences 65 Nuclear Engineering 82 66 Nutrition 67 Oceanography 68 Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Tourism 69 Pharmacy 70 Philosophy 71 Physics 72 Political Science 73 Print Media 74 Psychology 75 Public Health Promotion and Health Behavior 76 Radiation Health Physics 77 Rangeland Ecology and Ma
19. It has many more benefits than challenges In general find Blackboard quite useful in my courses In some ways its good because it allows more listening time for students but it does NOT encourage classroom attendance and this is always a fight because attendance is the 1 way to learn 125 Is it the most simple solution to accommodate instructional needs It certainly works well for many functions It could be useful to have some presentations made by instructors who are power instructors so that we can learn from real world examples it does fine It does the job that need i e post classes for student s review It has a very rigid interface It would be nice to be able to make a minor change to a document without deleting the old document and putting in a new document It would be nice to be able to reorganize what is there more easily itis a useful system but a bit bulky and not streamlined enough itis a very effective tool I like it It is difficult to know when a problem students are having is due to the system or due to their own systems or procedures Often we find out that the problem was with Blackboard too late It is great Please cut down on the number of steps it takes to move from one place to another It is important that the text support site has meaningful and useful content Students have to pay a premium for the books because of the text support and are often unhappy if the sites are mediocre or diff
20. OSU hope all teachers can use blackboard The system seems to work fine Occasionally a teacher will make things more difficult than they need to be would like for all instructors to use it for not only posting class materials but also grades think that OSU Bb is more functional than Bb used at other schools but enhancing the interaction between students and instructors would make the system better exam proctors are also a waste of student resources and believe that methods could be derived to eliminate the need for a student to drive 20 miles to take an exam call in start lower standards for proctor quals eliminate proctoring etc every drop of gas save by not driving to school is used to take a single exam Its a great tool to have and it allows students to access articles and other papers necessary for class that otherwise would only be available on course reserve at the library Also it would be nice if there was more distinction between the class and the lab under the courses since it is oftentimes confusing good place to get class notes updates and view grades The thing is is don t like the use of blackboard for some of the things that I ve heard people talk about it for E mail is a much easier way of communicating with professors and students and its a better way of turning in assignments to although maybe it s harder that way for some professors All in all all ever use blackboard for is checking my grades t
21. PIN number is XXXX This survey is meant to learn about the Blackboard features that are most useful to the learning process for OSU students Also important are your likes and dislikes with the Blackboard system Please know that your responses and comments will remain anonymous and confidential The Survey Research Center takes steps to ensure that anonymity will not be compromised in any way Your name will never be associated with the information you provide The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete We know that your time is precious and we are grateful for your participation Thank you Virginia M Lesser Director Survey Research Center If you have any questions about the purpose of this survey please contact Jon Dorbolo Associate Director Technology Across the Curriculum Co Chair Computing Resources Committee at Jon Dorbolo oregonstate edu If you have technical issues with the survey please respond to this email at src oregonstate edu Should you have questions about your rights as a research participant please contact the Oregon State University Institutional Review Board IRB Human Protection Administrator at 541 737 4933 or by email at RB oregonstate edu 13 Student 1 follow up email Dear OSU Student About a week ago the Oregon State University Survey Research Center OSU SRC sent you a request to complete the OSU Blackboard Tools Evaluation Survey online To the best of our knowle
22. about blackboard is when it is sporadically down The system has potential but like most computer software requires learning yet more computer geek info to use it It does cut costs to be able to download and print required readings rather spend a small fortune buying a photocopied packet at the bookstore understand there are copyright and publishers fees involved in releasing some materials Perhaps if we can get what we need on Blackboard it will discourage outrageous publisher fees for academic use of copyrighted materials Worth a try eh It s been pretty helpful in previous quarters when used it more As a TA the grade entry interface is cumbersome More teachers should use it think that backing up using the web browser back button should not be so cumbersome Warnings sent to e mail to warn you about changes in assignments and quizzes good system i just wish professors would be better with blackboard and be more consistent with using blackboard and posting material have found blackboard helpful in reviewing class notes keeping up with assignments and contacting instructors blackboard is a good system would like blackborad to provide a better resource of communication with professors and other classmates than it currently does right now the fastest way is to email directly or wait in office hours so have no idea what blackboard is doing differently than a course website otherthan securing grade information Like
23. actually function behind the scenes as well as general help whether those grade percentages are accurate or if teachers haven t accurately put in the information how emailing the class or an individual works I m always nervous I m going to send something to the whole class general introductions in tutorial form with practice Content Collection Online Tutoring discussion boards How much time it takes between the time the instructor posts something and am able to access it communications The use of the library and online materials tools The Digital Drop box needs to be clearer The rest figure out if need it for a particular class none know how to use it know how to use all the features feel are necessary for my education communication with classmates Video Conferencing Use of discussion board to know how many responses to postings have made without going through them all How to use discussion board more effectively feel that know enough about blackboard to be efficient have taken probably 10 courses through Blackboard and feel that it is quite user friendly think more than learning about what it currently does it should be upgraded to match the features that other schools use am not sure if it is just how the teachers set them up or what but some classes Discussion board s can be cumbersome by not allowing you to read multiple threads at one time and how it threads your responses to other posts A
24. already 137 Announcing that they have posted materials on Blackboard via email to communicate with students that something is available have helped staff load documents to the blackboard site For professors that do not know a lot about computers it seems difficult It also seems time consuming to load files and maybe the options could have a quick loading without going through all the options or remember the options for the last loaded file don t have anything to complain about Posting all notes for lectures online Encourage posting of student questions on blackboard and posting answers to those questions on blackboard All teachers post grades quicker Put all grades on blackboard Less categories to put stuff into Sometimes if I m looking for a document have to go into course information course documents and the homework folder to find what want Keep scores up to date don t just put a link to the prof s homepage under blackboard actually use the program Keep all announcements from the professor up for the entire term not just the last 30 days wish more of my professors would have homework online because it is so much easier Keep grades updated Make it easier for them to enter grades and anouncements More timely posting of grades Many of the instructors do not update scores online on a continuous basis This makes it difficult for students to know how they are doing until the end of the term Some instructors
25. any system it is only as strong as the data that are input If most courses are not using BB or if courses are selecting only certain information to post then BB loses its effectiveness It becomes just one more place to check again get rid of it OSU Blackboard is really quite good instructors need to understand how to use it to its full potential to allow for the best education experience Overall i think the system is very effective and efficient Some instructors only update weekly in some cases i would just encourage them to update more frequently and possibly use the 176 content headers more literally not a issue with blackboard per se It s helpful when it s used especially with grades and knowing where you stand in a course Profs who don t use it seem to do all right with their own pages but that seems like it s probably more work for them than it should be The need is great and the current system is effective for me currently am not sure if video streaming is available directly off the site but this could be beneficial overall Blackboard meets my needs use it in a very limited way to access course material but it seems to work well for that really can t comment on the other features because have not used them A web based into tutorial may be helpful to showcase all of the ways that it can be used Blackboard does the job but it s unintuitive hard to figure out and aesthetically unpleasing PowerSchool
26. as a means of safely testing students knowledge in its current state In general like using it as a convenient tool However was surprised to hear from a colleague that Univ Delaware s WebCT went down for over a WEEK If that were to happen at OSU we I would be critically constrained see no need for Blackboard in small graduate level courses teach should comment that established web sites for my courses in the late 1990s before Blackboard was available continuously update these websites and find them extremely useful Although it is possible that Blackboard could be useful too or even better who knows in the interest of time efficiency don t see any reason to change from the system I m currently using started out feeling that was an imposition and to a certain extent it is It has created new needs and new expectations for teachers but it has also improved the quality of my teaching So now love Bb started using blackboard less and less over the course of that year it crashed frequently sometime before the recent upgrade also never got into the habit of using it regularly because shared an office and computer with a colleague who also had over 100 students to manage every term It just seemed easier to not have to schedule computer time or deal with connectivity issues l still use it to post extra copies of assignments or links to resources teach one class a year plus workshop credits each of the
27. at all effective 0 Not Applicable No Basis for Opinion 9 No response Name Q6C Q 5 Not at all effective 0 Not Applicable No Basis for Opinion 9 No response Fmt N1 Col 668 d Access to course grades and scores 1 Very effective 2 Effective 3 Somewhat effective 4 Slightly effective Var 18 Var 19 Fmt N1 Col 669 Name Q6D R 5 Not at all effective 0 Not Applicable No Basis for Opinion 9 No response Name Q7 S Q7 Understanding that your instructors must operate within the current OSU Blackboard feature set what percentage of your instructors who use OSU Blackboard this quarter do so effectively 1 100 All 2 51 99 Most 3 50 Half 85 4 1 49 Less than half 5 0 None 9 No response Var 20 Fmt A750 Col 670 1419 Name Q7A T Q7A Understanding that your instructors must operate within the current OSU Blackboard feature set If you could make one change that would improve your instructor s use of the OSU Blackboard system what would it be Var 21 Fmt N1 Col 1420 Name Q8 U Q8 Of those instructors who use OSU Blackboard this quarter what percentage ask for your feedback regarding their uses of OSU Blackboard for instruction 1 100 AIL 4 49 Less than half 2 51 99 Most 5 0 None 3 50 Half 9 No response Var 22 Fmt N1 Col 1421 Name Q9 V Q9 Overall how effective do you rate your own ability to use OSU Blackboard 1 Very effective 3 Somewhat ef
28. available Students don t use it make the capability available but don t know if students use it may add discussion board in future terms see no need for students to communicate outside the classroom will be using it for this purpose this spring I m not concerned with this in a large lecture class students do not need to communicate with each other for course purposes In my line of work face to face communication is essential and enacouraged over interface lectured for extremely short time My courses do not require Blackboard help to communicate no need at this time 94 no need they all communicate regularly anyway not aware of the need not interested not interested Not needed Only done this once will do again only for online courses Plan to try it this spring some discussion board use may use it in the future students have used blackboard to email each other in my classes but did not facilitate the communication There are tons of ways for students to communicate with each other Blackboard is not necessary for that tried once students just didn t use it Used in the past may use in the future We communicate VIA list serves We have other means Q14 Other being able to ask a specific question and get a specific answer immediately Blackboard needs massive updating including to the usability of it s interface shouldn t have to be trained to use it cannot predict Compile FAQ answers
29. back a screen to add a file into the folder just created 111 Well it s student attitudes that might be changed here Students aren t wise to see the access to transparencies and Powerpoint slides and homework solutions that it provides as a substitute for regular class attendance When log on to Blackboard there is always a long list of courses which are all variations of the one course that teach Every year have to go through this list to figure out which one actually has the students in it so that know which one to use would like to be able to log on and see one class in the list of courses that has all of the students in it When used WebCT the ability to set up links and items in a grid pattern as opposed to a vertical list allowed me to set up Jeopardy games for reviewing material 112 would recommend a little more fuzzy logic to allow more flexibility in fill in the blank sorts of activities 1 Continuity of data i e have my formatting and materials ready for the next time teach the course 1 It would be nice to not have to scan through multiple pages of the gradebook to get to the student s name enter grades indiviually rather than upload as students turn in extra credit etc Too many OK makes it slow and awkward 2 When a student turns in a Word document would like to edit it online using track changes and have the student see it without having to email it separately Not having to email
30. because it just ends up creating 146 confusion attaching files etc none just make it easier to use and easier to find things anouncements was unable to log into some documents in the online library do most of my studying at night and did not have telephone help available An online tutourial woudl help i would like to learn more about the communication part of blackboard Is there an audio component to Blackboard As a visually impaired student am just learning how to access class information and software that will help how to email other students in the class none none currently am pretty fluent with it None at this time None Hwo to use the calender and what that has to offer HOW TO MANUEVER WITHIN THE SYSTEM MORE EFFICIENTLY All of the tools other than discussion boards Also the other tabs lines along the top other than courses how to work in html so that things on the discussion boards would turn out the way you want Such as underlined words The discussion boards that some students use to talk about classes It would save on people sending mass emails out to the list serves Discussion boards To know how to check material for previous term classes which took nothing Personally think I m pretty good at it I m not exactly sure if that last question was a call for suggestions or an invitation to make a personal request for help In general though would have appreciated tutorials on how things
31. consuming for professor to input information so they will be more likely to use it 1 In announcements in the tools column it should be arranged chronologically only instead of by class and date together 2 Also allow students to possibly set the color scheme By doing this it gives them a sense of ownership over their blackboard and they are more likely to use the other features 3 Maybe have a feature that is one trivial OSU fact a day Something fun Don t have so many different applications The place where grades are is all hidden behind numerous links Fix all the stupid browser compatibility problems As an example you CANNOT submit documents using the assignment page s upload in Firefox due to broken javascript It s incredibly annoying Make it faster have no suggestions 158 nothing maybe clarify the use of the blackboard for TAs and instructors mainly the gradebook that sometimes is not very convenient to use Until now professor just use it to post stuff believe Blackboard has much more potential to make classes more interactive A customizable interface would be nice displaying descriptions on link mouse overs and general usability makeover n a Easy accessible instructions Not sure Better integration with home computer calendar programs ie Outlook and iCal don t use Blackboard because would have to enter my entire schedule every term when already have done it on my mac I m not going to u
32. could get e mail alerts from this daily planner sent to your onid account Test tomorrow at 4pm Bring a bluebook If there was some sort of advising system so you dont have to speak with an adviser in person to figure things out Once a class is elected from your enrolled courses make the left hand tool bar where assignments and course documents are located make it more simple There is too many links than there needs to be Make it run faster perform better post a link somewhere where we can send an email directly to the teacher course documents assignments tools and categories are too closely similar and teachers can t organize accordingly in a sensible manner It s hard to find things that you need too many tabs to choose from and only like 1 3 of them are used Educate teachers Stated above 165 Communication with teachers through blackboard instead of only email The digital drop boxes should apply to every instructor and be used by them for quick questions and comments Have instructors check blackboard and use it so that students could follow up on grades Requiring all classes to have a site have it respond faster when you click on a button especially the grades live chat Integrating a better calendar or schedule program to help keep track of important class dates and exams think that this would be extraordinarily helpful to all student that use Blackboard Having all of your individual class information
33. d like to learn more about other features but just haven t taken the time to explore yet need to learn how to post grades know the procedures are probably explained there but haven t felt a need to invest time to do it Now that I ve taken a class where the instuctor used it know it can be useful only know how to activate my site enter assignments and announcements and email the entire group or selected individuals would like to learn how to have them turn in assignments to the site etc really only use blackboard for posting grades and email communication For the rest use my own website this is mostly because want others besides those enrolled in the the class to have access to the site teach art studio courses and see only a minor application of Blackboard teach infrequently as an adjunct so my memory needs refreshed after six months or so of not using it think I ve used most of the options at one time or another My questions are usually pretty specific so wouldn t go for more classroom training use Macintosh to prepare my powerpoints and handouts When posted to Blackboard figures often do not appear am most dissatisfied with this Students download my notes and often then have to copy hard copies and hand out to correct for the Blackboard errors want to add more images and videos also want to use assessment for my large classes In other classes would love to have a slide show on line
34. easier to do than having to find the document that you re looking for on blackboard So often when I click on a course it takes me to the course website and then need to look through 10 different tabs to find the one document that I m looking for Have two tabs assignments and course documents everything else is confusing to speed it up somewhat don t let the teachers set up a bunch of different areas where we have to find different homeworks in different sections on blackboard Get the bugs out that slow the system down hate typing in a discussion response and submitting it only to have Blackboard come back with an error response go through this daily when you do maintenance on the site do it over a break and not in the middle of the week or weekend and if it does happen to be on a week or weekend during the term don t make it during midterms or finals because when my class has all the information for the test on blackboard and i cant get on it it makes it hard to study give more options for visual appearance as blackboard itself is fine More pleasant appearance More instructor interaction with Blackboard instead of TAs Instant messaging with professors if we have a quick question Make the grades section on the left tab area so you don t have to go through up to five clicks just to see your grades See previous question none do not have any suggestions for improvement Make it work with Internet Explorer Make it possi
35. else It is effective at showing me my grades whenever want them Now if only Resnet will get their internet figured out to work more than half the time we will be in business All of the type in questions seem the same to me and thus seem ineffective have no recommendations for Blackboard really appreciate being able to submit assignments electronically though find many teachers prefer paper copies also appreciate that my email in box isn t being filled with course documents pdf s of required readings etc Overall my feeling about blackboard is quite neutral I m sure that I m not utilizing all of its capabilities but get by just fine as itis It seems that few instructors utilize many of its capabilities though in many ways I m glad for that can imagine instructors thinking it would be great to make all of their students post discussion board posts all the time and think that would defeat the purpose of taking on campus classes rather than online classes NA It s really useful for keeping track of grades and notifications about the class when teachers use it think it is adequate the way it is A system like Blackboard is very important but more of the instructors need to start using it even if just for grading think it is a helpful tool really enjoy Blackboard I ve used it to check dates and times and assignments more than ever thought would It s great when teachers use it and post reminders and lit
36. for each course is more covenient for me as have total control on it Know nearly nothing about it Took a class once but didn t learn much Live use for example meeting remotely online at the same time And l d like to learn how to digitize and post recordings live webcards making the website more appealing visually and more functional for user both instructor and student Media content within lecture materials more on course content delivery NA Navigating settings discussion boards that appear less confusing to students None None None None at the moment none at this time none Not applicable not sure Not sure as do not believe use of blackboard is a limiting factor in the courses teach The courses are typically graduate level and with a low number of students enrolled Therefore face to face interaction is easily accomplished and view this type of interaction as optimal Not sure Don t know what don t know Not sure prefer to browse through material That way can find out what don t know not sure show me what is available give a demo of what can be used what is mostly used nothing at this time Nothing comes to mind Nothing comes to mind use it for posting powerpoint lectures quiz solutions and grades This seems sufficient for my needs Nothing in particular on line assessment of learning on line assessments Online exams On line quiz feature 100 On line quizzes or oth
37. for my students too And don t try and charge more for it either Please see above provide access to instructors well in advance of their course term Provide evening orientation consultation and training Many adjunct faculty members work full time off campus and need access to this type of support in the evening or on weekends Provide more information to students about how to use it Providing faculty staff adjunct prof K 12 instructors etc all instructors of Blackboard with something they have to sign regarding their conduct believe some have treated the Blackboard support staff quite poorly and disdainfully Perhaps because they can t physically see them and view them as merely support staff who they can belittle when frustrated Students have to follow rules of conduct so should faculty staff etc who use the system on OSU s dime Q16 redesign the way the attachments are handled throughout the system Reduce the amount of scrolling per screen just to click the submit button when editing Reduce the headings reduce the number of times blackboard appears to go down at the beginning of the quarter Reliability of access especially during the first hours and days of class for each term Replace it with Sakai Replace with an open source system Require Blackboard to convert a non word document into something intelligible when it prints know this is a vague comment and really don t know what needs to happen to Bb
38. have only one site that students need to used for all class information It is a very good system which most teachers use for my classes They use it only for putting up class outlines but then that is good as well personally like the use of blackboard so none DON T ALLOW INSTRUCTORS TO POST THE SAME CLASS WITH ONE SPELLING ERROR It is helpful No further comments Encourage the teachers to use the gradebook feature more because most often kids don t know how they are doing It works well when the professors use it They are able to keep their students more infomed function fine without it but if it is there its an added bonus nothing overall it works pretty well and it s a good thing to have wish more instructors would use it Most of the teachers who have used their own web pages to display information have been able to better lay out their information personally am not a big fan of blackboard think it is a good tool and I m not sure how to improve it but continuous improvement is good none It works for those instructor who know how to use it However it is a pain to use on my end sometimes appreciate that the feature set is robust but there is no point in using it if it takes me forever and a day every day to get it set up to be useful to me Greater integration with software such as OneNote That it would be great if teachers were required to post our assignment grades on BB One of the most deabilitating things
39. i am doing overall and its very frustrating when some teachers don t post your grades on blackboard its so much easier to go to one website blackboard then go to five separate teacher s websites 144 Post some interesting reference related to course 145 Q10 Other online upon request education about the system in general woul be great Pop up tools during use give professors BB tools instead actually find it pretty self explanatory but the other option makes me sound arrogant The best would be for instructors to notify classes about the Blackboard features they intend to use and then fielding any questions that the students may have place on campus to go to for help with blackboard How to e mail all students from a specific class all at once If can t figure it out it s too geeky to use getting ready to graduate Q11 Unknown How to use the calender online communication with teacher and students new features am not sure As a graduate GTA would also like to learn more about Blackboard s applications for instructors the use of the other features such as how to use some of the other tools which we normally don t use on a daily basis na How to store work both completed and in progress Nothing believe have been doing ok in using blackboard and know most of the in and outs have not used anything beyond downloading course documents discussion thread communication with other students amp instructors
40. is Mostly the way Blackboard is used depends on the instructor 24 7 tech support don t know have not used it recently 178
41. just use it for course managment i e postin syllabus asignments and using gradebook No need to do so none apply not interested in this function TAs don t do that The course exams are scheduled by e campus as paper and pencil Quizzes follow the same procedure as practice for exams This use of Blackboard is not appropriate for the type of course I taught 93 Q100Other A few students use this capability do not monitor Again have had discussion boards study groups etc on Blackboard in the past I m teaching graduate level classes now The students see each other regularly so there is no need would use it again in particular circumstances Again use Bb for communication between students in my online class not so much for my on campus class For seminar sized classes encourage postings and responses by students on Blackboard Have not used Blackboard for this purpose because they have other means to communicate have not used this Haven t had the need to allow student to communicate through Blackboard Haven t used Bb to do this because don t find that kind of communication necessary useful am aware of the capabilities of students being able to communicate outside of class with one another However have not highlighted it to my students or make it a requirement If they request such a service then I ll absolutely point them to Blackboard do not need the capability do not need this service don t us
42. like those in WebAssign to enable a one interface solution interface could be more streamlined its a bit clunky though effective itis so dog slow that grading papers actually takes longer on BB than on paper it needs to be faster it takes A LONG TIME for me to pull up a students grade record in the gradebook and the system often goes blank when try to post on the discussion boards It should be easier to hide classes that are not currently being taught The blackboard greeting page is a mess because of this It would be nice if Gradebook would work more like an Excel sheet such that could move around the columns never figured out how to delete one of the entries Also just post the current courses we are teaching not all the courses we have ever taught It s the end of the day and right now can t think of what they are There have been improvements in the 8 or so years that have been using Blackboard at OSU and another campus Being able to not show the average score for an assignment or test is one would like the default to be not showing the average rather than showing the average as is now the case It is good to be able to use written comments in the gradebook for assignments rather than being constrained by a number or letter it s too slow i dislike the slight delays for every step also it cannot be customized to eliminate annoying extra questions and pages when making simple changes also the ability to format page
43. now they don t always have the links available that would like Having it required that all professors need to use Blackboard and post grades on Blackboard Educate the teachers Make the menus easier to navigate There are some things you have to go through many menus to get to N A make every professor use it If more teachers would use it It works fine for me Better overview of all your classes on the main page An automatic notification when something new is posted Ability to tag things as important or read no changes n a More use of it When you click on announcements have it go to the class s page so that don t have to go back to the homepage to get to the course Make it so if you long into blackboard you can also check your e mail without signing in again at onid Get something else None N A Make grades easier to find Don t hide it under tools Also it would be great if all instructors would use the same system I m unsure haven t used had to use the full system With my limited experience having files in word rather than pdf help because of the longer loading times either works though just preference mostly it depends on instructor if when it post thinks on blackboard Clear up clutter from features that aren t used create a more dynamic folder display more like standard windows interface standardize professors use of the system 1 Altering the options for the options page to allow students to
44. of updating do on the course websites Also must admit that developed the templates for my course websites before Blackboard was available so have little reason to drop these templates and learn another system ran out of room 123 only use Blackboard to post grades and sometimes for forums Other than that prefer to build my own website because it tends to be easier than using blackboard find the blackboard user interface fairly unintuitive only use it to publish grades really like being able to post grades immediately through Blackboard and posting assignment guidelines it is extremely valuable with teaching really like being able to used Blackboard it helps me immensely in managing larger classes in particular and it gives me an easy way to communicate with my grad class which only meets once a week really like Blackboard don t have to have my own website because of it But wish did more with it really like having my materials presented to students as they wish to need to review them really like using the discussion board feature have my graduate students post their papers there so that others can read them and discuss them It has proven to be a very successful tool really really like it see Blackboard as solely a course content management system It provides me a means to send material out to the class email them and to have them return materials to me do not see Blackboard
45. only announcements If they could all use the same amount of features that would be great It would help me trust blackboard s dependability better when scores are weighted have that calculated in for the students so that the grade displayed is accurate Stop using it entirely and use course websites as is done with many of my other courses Post grades on BB Make it so that there is an easier way to post lecture notes Sometimes they do not always post correctly So if there could be a standard program to use that might be helpful Organization of the posted lecture notes no idea Organization of the course documents something that help to easily identify them with out having to open files i e Titles Using more of the given features Describe in the announcements area in as few and precise words as possible what was updated and how to navigate to the updates 142 Update often and put as much materials as you can Also update grades more regularly Grades would be posted sooner wish my instructor would use the option to post our current grades on all completed assignments Have them learn the use from the student side so that they could see how to better communicate with students fsd Keep grades updated not putting all course materials under course documents but organizing them logically with the Blackboard menu options Unknown It would be best if some instructors realized that they can organize some of their online m
46. only had a couple instructors that used blackboard to its full extent those experiences have been a pleasure Nothing Grading updated regularly update grades more often Some of my professors didn t post grades as often as would have like them to The instructor did a great job using the OSU Blackboard system respond to discussion boards more frequently No response To be more timely when posting assignments Perform daily updates regarding grades and course documents such as assignments Making the grading system easier for them so the grades could be online in a more timely fashion Message boards To make better use of the announcements for important new information Have a session to teach instructors on using it Actually post materials other than just the syllabus such as grades readings handouts etc Make them use blackboard and post things to it use it more The grading system Most complained that it was too difficult to input grades so they only would do it at the end of the term Rather than letting their students know their progress throughout the term In the section for grades it often shows the points earned and points possible but not how each assignment was weighted and also running totals so can get an idea of what my overall grade is so far That would be helpful Have all classes post slides Not everyone has access to the internet all of the time and it isn t always easy to walk 20 minutes to the li
47. other Timely grade postings power points up before class This is my first term returning after a long absence don t really have any other term to compare it to It is a vast improvement from courses 20 years ago Sorry it S gotta be 2 changes 1 Use and encourage students to use discussion feature 2 Make all lectures downloadable as a file not just a slide show That way we can save it for future reference in our education and or careers Make how they use it more universal meaning that there would be some continuity among the way in which it is used between classes make it so teachers are forced to update the grades on a regular basis rather than only once or twice a term The problem is not the instructor s use of the Blackboard system it is the overall flawed nature of the Blackboard system itself It has an unfriendly GUI is unintuitive and lacks basic notification features that might make the system useful wish they would use the course grades So many of my classes have no idea what my Scores were on assignments llove the instructors who use the grade feature You always know exactly where you stand in a class In one class still have not recieved a grade Have more contact with the students Be available at specific times online for questions publish grades more often including weighting and midterms and homeworks All of my instructors were completely satisfactory and was never left wishing could do any
48. other terms so do not have time to become an expert Blackboard user having said that have had no instruction in the use of Blackboard at all so just do the things that can figure out quickly on my own think Blakcboard is a marvelous teacvhing tool think have summarized everything wanted to say in the previous questions think it is a great tool or site that has made my job so much easier think it works pretty well am not enough of an expert at this point to make suggestions think there are things could do if had training and time however Bb is functioning pretty well for me have gone to the f2f trainings but usually the presentor gets side tracked by the one newbie and the rest of us sit idly by while that person learns Bb guess the best is one on one tried to use Blackboard in the past at least twice and gave up because it was not working well required too many steps to achieve simple things and was just overall too clumsy and too burdensome to use use BB only for communication and quizzes The rest of my class information is on my class web sites The grade book is BB is too primitive for keeping my class grades I use Excel use Blackboard for posting material and sending e mail to the class These two functions are very handy for me do not think the graduate classes teach would benefit from more sophisticated use of Blackboard use Blackboard in all of my classes and also teach an e
49. posting my web page to the roster and submission of assignments have a hunch that there is a wealth of capability that don t even know exists Editing tools for text contributions to discussion groups How to set up calenders none I m done at OSU for a while submitting coursework communication with instructors amp other students Sending out emails to all students all teachers or selected ones How to use it N A extra s like online library features And make sure all future blackboard classes have a section for grades One class did not and it is a very negative experience actually think understand it quite well unless there are some new features don t know because haven t learnt about them yet How to communicate with other students There is so much available have not even began to utilize anything other than the basic blackboard stuff found within the course outline This is my fourth class and am comfortable with blackboard How to use the library portion nothing right now Course information would like the teachers to be taught more about how to use blackboard so that there isn t always such a mess between what we are given in class homework we are expected to do etc Profs hand out assignments on the syllabus but then post an additional assignment on blackboard which no one knows about The level of confusion is overwhelming Professors should either completely use blackboard or not use it at all
50. simple as blackboard This system is the best None that am aware of chat room online whiteboard communication file sharing between classmates None that can think of at the moment exchange of documents with other students easier screens to view the tutorials with a program the US Forest Service uses is PeopleSoft and it allows the user to control the screens or touch this and read about that How to communicate with other students All of the different tools just would like to know what all black board has to offer don t think know everything it has to offer calendar all of the different tools it offers am not sure if use blackboard as effective as it is possible i would like to know in general alloptions which it give students Forums Deleting stupid extra things on my pages that don t use They just make for things to accidentally click on and annoy me Online Resources None I m really good at it N A I don t think need to learn more about it think that professors need to decide how they are going to use it before the term starts and lay out concrete expectations when it comes to Blackboard use file share Tools how to email other students etc none Announcements from campus digital drop box had multiple errors and problems using this method of submission How to encourage instructors to do more with their Blackboard to allow better access to class lectures and materials for the cl
51. teachers to use it and maintain it frequently Make it more accessible from a mobile device Make all instructors have to use Blackboard Some say it is too complicated or time consuming and won t use it for anything professors would use the system more if it were easier to navigate and more user friendly and worked properly 100 of the time All of the teachers that have ever had hate using blackboard because the processes they have to go through to use it is so confusing and a lot of the time teachers do the exact same thing and blackboard will operate correctly one time and not function at all or post anything the next time Obviously the motivation to use blackboard is not very high when a teacher doesn t know whether or not the work that they are putting in to posting something on blackboard is even going to work or not Allowing the instructors to personalize the mainpage Ideally they could get rid of tabs that are never used don t let the teachers set up a bunch of different areas where we have to find different homeworks in different sections on blackboard There are too many system crashes and slow responses end up spending way more time than want to in Blackboard in discussions etc than want to because the system is so slow i think to make it so when your classes are listed on the right hand side of the screen in a box to only have one link to each class Some of my classes have more then one link and it makes it hard to
52. the instructor asking for help instead of calling the helpdesk Its a brillinat concept but in reality more of an obstacle for a new instructor with new students Much easier to distrbute course information especially to students who live off campus My classes are typically small so don t need online communication tools like online posting of course materials and grades and get positive feedback about online grade availability from the students My limited experience with it has been very favorable My under utilization of the resource is no reflection on your product lack the time to incorporate new teaching modalities into my repetoire n a N A n a NA na NA na nada Nice idea in concept if not execution No comment none none Nope not sure Nothing nothing nothing Nothing Nothing more at this time offer regular workshops for the community of users offer workshops for students other profs speak wel of it Really its only redeeming quality is that students are used to it Regardless of what has not worked on occassion and what don t use of the system am very thankful for the hard work that the team does to make Balckboard available and keep it functioning Great Job see 15 see 16 Seems like there were a lot of problems in the beginning and therefore chose to use e mail and listservs for student interaction and communication feel that am ready My class sizes were also at the g
53. through such complications was not worth any convenience the online testing provided In which ways could OSU Blackboard make the testing environment and rules more transparent and user friendly foolproof The Q16 limited my response Those kinds of limittions in Blackboard are irritating because the descriptive feedback that want to give to individual students is sometimes inhibited by word space limitations In the one class where used a lot of the Discussion Board noticed that students were not always following the same format for response to a previous comment As the instructor was not always effective at helping students improve the format of their responses The system is not flexiable The tutorial needs to be more flexable ask a question and get an answer instead of watching the entire tutorial examples To slow To put the previous courses under a different menu to make finding the current courses easier to find To streamline the process of updating files it takes about twice as many steps as it should have to delete the file approve it re open the link and then upload It would be great if it took one step i e replace the existing file with a new one Train students and instructors to find alternatives to using it ONID mass emails traditional group phone and email trees etc TRAINING The on line training was not terribly useful Very available very searchable starting with the simplest tasks posting documents
54. to complete and submit homework with Mozilla Firefox had to use Internet Explorer or else it wouldn t work 154 Create a simplified easy to use interface which isnt so visually painful to look at Menu access to all classes from every page so you don t have to navigate back to the home page eliminate left sidebar menu choices that have no content Better way to look at grades Encourage instructors and students to use the communication boards more Allowing it to be customizable for each course page would help with navigation issues Pushing for teachers to update their grades often on the website If not customizable perhaps allow a survey of the teachers to see what is absolutely necessary on their pages Blackboard is fine but a lot of teachers don t use it well Test taking Test in one class don t save my anwsers to view later All changes Allow the files to be seen when they are posted instead of having to click a button that allows it to be visible to students none don t really think theres anything that needs improvement personally think blackboard is good right now Not using it There are far too many features which causes a lot of confusion It is unclear where different items are located such as documents grades announcements Stop using it Paying money for expensive proprietary software when there are better free open source systems available For example Moodle is a waste of student resources Any current inv
55. to make this possible but l ve seen student syllabi that when printed from Bb look more like HTML code This is a huge problem as it contributes to attrition students get lost early in the term and just a general lack of interest in the class Is it a software compatability issue don t 117 know Rewrite the e portfolio module same as above Same comment as above Same response as Q17 see 16 SEE ABOVE see above See above See above see above See above on technological problems with online quizzes See above See above See above see above Otherwise think this program is GREAT Very user friendly See answer to question 16 this missing cursor drives me nuts See answer to question 16 See complaint above Make it faster and less laggy Also make the navigation more streamlined and by drastically reducing the number of pages that you need to navigate through to accomplish a single task See Q 15 See Q 16 See Q15 See Q16 see Q16 See Q16 See Q16 See Q17 See question 15 see question 16 shared experiences effective vs failed approaches Shortcut to the e mail link Simpler user interface simplify it simplify the front page Simplify the process for setting content and tool preferences for a given course Simplify the user interface Simplify Some of the pathways are a little clunky For example students can only attach one document to a discussion posting so if they mu
56. tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other OzNot selected Var 30 88 Fmt N1 Col 1429 Name Q10_8 AD Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other OzNot selected Var 31 Fmt N1 Col 1430 Name Q1O 9 AE Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other 0 Not selected Var 32 Fmt A250 Col 1431 1680 Name Q10_Other AF Other Var 33 Fmt A750 Col 1681 2430 Name Q11 AG Q11 What aspects of OSU Blackboard would you like to learn more about Var 34 Fmt A750 Col 2431 3180 Name Q12 AH Q12 What cha
57. were a requirement for teachers to use blackboard to post stuff i don t know Make discussion boards more appealing so students will actually use them aside from the times they are FORCED to use them My only suggestion is to require the use of Blackboard in all classes understand some do not need all the capabilities PAC classes and what not but most other classes are much easier to keep organized up to date with and intouch with that use the system already do not understand why some instructors choose not to use Blackboard it irks me don t know Make it so that all teachers have to use it and that it should be updated regularly by teachers none updated information would be nice there is no point of looking at out dated info none A grade calculator would be a quick way to calculate your grade in certain classes Getting to Blackboard easily from the OSU homepage Require all instructors to use it and post grades on it No response A grades button instead of listing it under tools Not having as many links Sometimes pofessors put course documents under course documents and sometimes under course information feel like have to search around the site to find things Add the ability to stay logged in on a conputer It s annoying to have to log in every single time Faster don t shut it down More easy to navigate none easyier links Grading system Send a digest to my email which includes updates for all
58. you miss a class it s much easier to catch up none think it is better than nothing It is great to have access to important and crucial class material at home Also it cuts down on waste by having everything electronically available The My Grades doesn t need to be so deep into the list of choices It s used often but listed with options that are seldom used Put it on the left hand navigation within the class or better 171 yet have all the classes grades on one My Grades page My priorities for the system are simply to have a place where can conveniently see class announcements and course grades Blackboard is a good forum for this just wish more instructors and lab T A s would make more use of Blackboard nothing Blackboard s great as long as instructors realize that student s do appreciate it and these instructors actually use it well It could be organized alot better content collection is probably not understood by most younger students nor digital dropbox those are arcane and antique terms have used the Angel system with two other universities and would say they re both about the same in terms of ease of use Since am a distance ed student the online system has to be effective and has to work almost flawlessly There are very few other means to contact instructors who maintain very limited phone and office hours It is nice to have everything in one place especially for each individual class reall
59. 04 Sophomore 86 12 59 190 Junior 140 20 50 330 Senior 167 24 45 497 Masters 81 11 86 578 Doctorate 68 9 96 646 Other 12 1 76 658 Non degree 9 1 32 667 Post bac 12 1 76 679 Professional 4 0 59 683 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q2 In which program is your major course of study If you have a dual major or cannot find your major in the list provided please check Other at the end of the drop down list and type your response in the box below Cumulative Cumulative Q2 Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Agricultural Business Management 1 0 15 1 0 15 Agricultural Economics 1 0 15 2 0 29 Agricultural Sciences 3 0 44 5 0 73 Animal Sciences 21 3 07 26 3 81 Anthropology 5 0 73 31 4 54 Art History 1 0 15 32 4 69 Biological Engineering 5 0 73 37 5 42 Botany 5 0 73 42 6 15 Business Administration 57 8 35 99 14 49 Chemistry 8 1 17 107 15 67 Communication 9 1 32 116 16 98 Computational Physics 1 0 15 117 17 13 Computer Science 16 2 34 133 19 47 Crop Science 1 0 15 134 19 62 Early Childhood Development and Education 14 2 05 148 21 67 English 1 32 157 22 99 Environmental Engineering 2 0 29 159 23 28 Environmental Health 2 0 29 161 23 57 Envir
60. 100 00 Cumulative Q6B Frequency Percent Frequency Cumulative Percent Not Applicable No Basis for Opinion 99 15 69 99 15 69 Very effective 67 10 62 166 26 31 Effective 22 03 305 48 34 Somewhat effective 20 13 432 68 46 Slightly effective 14 42 523 82 88 Not at all effective 13 95 611 96 83 No response 3 17 631 Frequency Missing 52 65 100 00 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys Q6 How effective if at all have the following OSU Blackboard features been for you The FREQ Procedure Q6C c Access to course materials Cumulative Cumulative Q6C Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Very effective 326 51 66 326 51 66 Effective 214 33 91 540 85 58 Somewhat effective 47 7 45 587 93 03 Slightly effective 17 2 69 604 95 72 Not at all effective 5 0 79 609 96 51 No response 22 3 49 631 100 00 Frequency Missing 52 Q6D d Access to course grades and scores Cumulative Cumulative Q6D Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Not Applicable No Basis for Opinion 5 0 79 5 0 79 Very effective 285 45 17 290 45 96 Effective 187 29 64 AT 75 59 Somewhat effective 95 15 06 572 90 65 Slightly effective 23 3 65 595 94 29 Not at all effective 9 1 43 604 95 72 No response 27 4 28 631 100 00 Frequency Missing 52 66 Blackboard
61. 5 Not at all effective 2 Effective 4 Slightly effective 9 No response Var 27 Fmt N1 Col 36 Name Q12 AA Q12 To what extent do you ask for feedback from your students regarding your uses of OSU Blackboard for instruction 1 To a great extent 3 Very little 9 No response 2 To a moderate extent 4 Not at all Var 28 Fmt N1 Col 37 Name Q13 AB Q13 How effective do you rate your own ability to use OSU Blackboard 1 Very effective 3 Somewhat effective 5 Not at all effective 2 Effective 4 Slightly effective 9 No response 75 Var 20 Fmt N1 Col 38 Name Q14_1 AC Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe OzNot selected 9 No response Var 30 Fmt N1 Col 39 Name Q14 2 AD Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe OzNot selected 9 No response Var 31 76
62. 90 86 38 Mechanical Engineering 27 3 95 617 90 34 Liberal Studies 11 1 61 628 91 95 Human Development and Family Sciences 11 1 61 639 93 56 Interior Design 4 0 59 643 94 14 Housing Studies 3 0 44 646 94 58 Public Health 3 0 44 649 95 02 Biochemistry and Biophysics 6 0 88 655 95 90 Veterinary Medicine 4 0 59 659 96 49 Education 4 0 59 663 97 07 General Science 3 0 44 666 97 51 59 60 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q2 In which program is your major course of study If you have a dual major or cannot find your major in the list provided please check Other at the end of the drop down list and type your response in the box below Q2 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Wood Science and Technology 0 29 668 97 80 Wood Science 0 15 669 97 95 Public Policy 0 15 670 98 10 Forest Engineering 0 29 672 98 39 Forest Science 0 29 674 98 68 Forest Operations Management 0 29 676 98 98 Adult Education 0 29 678 99 27 Geography 0 15 679 99 41 Geographic Information Science 0 15 680 99 56 College Student Services Administration weie NINININI eeN 0 44 683 100 00 61 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q3 Think
63. Adjunct Instructor 9 No response 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe Var 5 Fmt N1 Col 9 Name Q2 2 E Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor O0 Not selected 2 Tenure track Professor 6 Adyjunct Instructor 9 No response 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe 71 Var 6 Fmt N1 Col 10 Name Q2 3 F Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor 2 Tenure track Professor 6 Adjunct Instructor 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe 0 Not selected 9 No response Var 7 Fmt N1 Col 11 Name Q2 4 G Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor 0 Not selected 2 Tenure track Professor 6 Adjunct Instructor 9 No response 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe Var 8 Fmt N1 Col 12 Name Q2_5 H Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor O Not selected 2 Tenure track Professor 6 Adjunct Instructor 9 No response 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe Var 9 Fmt N1 Col 13 Name Q2_6 I Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor OzNot selected 2 Tenure track Professor 6 Ad
64. Blackboard Tools oregon state JG J Evaluation Survey A study initiated by the Faculty Senate Computing Resources Committee CRC Q1 In which OSU college was most of your instruction in the last year Spring 2007 Winter 2008 Circle one number 1 Agricultural Sciences 7 Liberal Arts 2 Business 8 Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences 3 Education 9 Pharmacy 4 Engineering 10 Science 5 Forestry 11 Veterinary Medicine 6 Health and Human Sciences 12 Other Describe Q2 What are your roles for OSU Circle all that apply Tenured Professor Tenure track Professor Research Professor Instructor eCampus Instructor Adjunct Instructor Teaching Assistant Other Describe ONOARWND Q3 Thinking about spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 approximately how many total credit hours did you instruct TOTAL CREDIT HOURS FROM SPRING 2007 WINTER 2008 L4 If you answered 0 to this question please skip now to question 14 on page 4 Q4 Of the total credit hours you instructed from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 approximately how many did you instruct NOT using OSU Blackboard and how many did you instruct using OSU Blackboard TOTAL CREDIT HOURS NOT USING OSU BLACKBOARD FROM SPRING 2007 WINTER 2008 TOTAL CREDIT HOURS USING OSU BLACKBOARD FROM SPRING 2007 WINTER 2008 17 Q5 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quarter 2007 through winter qu
65. Campus course It works fairly well except for this alphabetical name glitch I m looking forward to this being fixed use Blackboard only as a supplement for the management of my courses 124 use my course Blackboard in conjunction with an externally available web site where essentially all the course materials are available want the external site so that prospective students can see what materials my course covers will be inquiring about intelligent test taking possibilitties would be intested in a blog about blackboard use at OSU would like a way to encourage the students to make use of it more only a small core group of students use the discussion boards even though encourage it would like to be able to print off of each page Like print a hard copy of my grades on blackboard print a hard copy of discussion board in the smallest amount of space possible This way i have a written record with little extra paper would also like to see a page where i can see what the students see used some students to learn what they see vs what i see would also like on grading to beable to manipulate points etc to see how something effects everyones grades fasteretc would like to be able to write password protected web pages and stop using Blackboard altogether would like to break classes into smaller groups for discussions without having to set up separate forums typically have at least 10 forums that students need
66. Center If you have any questions about the purpose of this survey please contact Jon Dorbolo Associate Director Technology Across the Curriculum Co Chair Computing Resources Committee at Jon Dorbolo oregonstate edu If you have technical issues with the survey please reply to this email at src 2oregonstate edu Should you have questions about your rights as a research participant please contact the Oregon State University Institutional Review Board IRB Human Protection Administrator at 541 737 4933 or by email at RB oregonstate edu Instructor follow up paper letter Dear OSU Faculty Member March 12 2008 About a week ago the Oregon State University Survey Research Center OSU SRO sent you a request to complete the OSU Blackboard Tools Evaluation Survey online To the best of our knowledge we have not yet received a completed questionnaire from you OSU Information Services has been asked by the OSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the Computer Resources Committee CRC to evaluate the OSU Blackboard system In making this evaluation it is crucial to ask both users and those who choose not to be users to rate aspects of the systems functionality and provide their likes and dislikes All instructors who are teaching have taught courses from spring 2007 through winter 2008 are being asked to participate in this important survey for Blackboard Even if you have not used Blackboard we would like your participation In
67. Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Agricultural Sciences 66 10 30 66 10 30 Business 29 4 52 95 14 82 Education 38 5 93 20 75 Engineering 67 10 45 31 20 Forestry 37 5 77 36 97 Health and Human Sciences 84 13 10 50 08 Liberal Arts 18 56 68 64 Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences 19 2 96 71 61 Pharmacy 17 2 65 74 26 Science 19 03 93 29 Veterinary Medicine 16 2 50 95 79 Other Describe 23 3 59 99 38 No response 4 0 62 Frequency Missing 198 100 00 32 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply Q2 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Tenured Professor 227 30 35 227 30 35 Tenure track Professor 87 11 63 314 41 98 Research Professor 15 2 01 329 43 98 Instructor 22 59 498 66 58 eCampus Instructor 44 5 88 542 72 46 Adjunct Instructor 53 7 09 595 79 55 Teaching Assistant 67 8 96 662 88 50 Other Describe 78 10 43 740 98 93 No response 8 1 07 748 Frequency Missing 1584 100 00 33 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For C
68. MESSAGE FOLLOW UP EMAIL MESSAGES AND COPY OF WEB QUESTIONNAIRE Student prenotification email Dear OSU Student Within the next week the Survey Research Center SRC will conduct a survey to gather feedback concerning the OSU Blackboard system 1 This survey is part of a review initiated by the Faculty Senate Computing Resources Committee CRC and carried out in cooperation with OSU Information Services The primary purpose of the Blackboard Review is to identify aspects of the Blackboard system and related infrastructure that may be improved to better serve the OSU educational community This survey is a crucial part of the review because it solicits feedback directly from the user population of the tools Students who use Blackboard do so in a variety of ways and levels of involvement Whatever your experience with Blackboard may be even if none at all we need to hear from you via this survey A representative sample of students will receive an invitation from the OSU Survey Research Center to participate in the on line survey Your invitation will arrive by e mail and include a PIN number and link The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete Your voice matters and we encourage you to respond candidly so that meaningful information will result Your responses and comments will remain anonymous and confidential The information will be exclusively gathered and analyzed by the Survey Research Center Thank you in advance
69. NOT view the default things on their homepages 2 Simpler tutorials 3 Easier way to make student websites via ONID accounts Integrated Email Client Can t think of any More User Friendly navigation 157 Make it mandatory for instructors to make use of it so that students have a centralized location to get homework and class materials Teachers need to understand how to use it more the features availiable are good and students understand technology but teachers sometimes dont The notification system is also kind of weird sometimes i get notifications that i dont think are significant but other times important things are not notified Nothing Rolling updates on what is new on your individual Blackboard account email updates connected to Blackboard updates deadlines for completing assignments I m not sure Making it easier to email other individual students or select groups of students rather than the whole class Getting all teachers to use it n a Make it easier to access the discussion board couldn t this term Have all the teachers use it See other answers Some teachers don t know how to post slide shows to blackboard because they are too big Show teachers how to use blackboard effectively color coding of classes This was they dont look all the same initially To require Instructors to give feedback using Blackboard instead of personal websites don t know It seems to work fine for what need Sometimes ther
70. Not at all Important 2 Important 0 Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 4 Slightly Important Var 21 Fmt N1 Col 30 Name Q7E U e The ability to evaluate what students know understand or have yet to learn so that you may plan appropriate activities for class meetings activities 1 Very Important 5 Not at all Important 2 Important 0 Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 4 Slightly Important Var 22 Fmt N1 Col 31 Name Instructed_Students V Added Question Did the instructor instruct student using Blackboard during time frame 1 Yes 2 No 29 9 No response to Q6 29 Var 23 Fmt N1 Col 32 Name Q8 W Q8 Please read the following statements and choose the one that best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to communicate with students 1 I use OSU Blackboard to communicate with students and plan to continue to do so 2 I have used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students in the past but do not plan to do so again 3 I have never used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs 4 I have never used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students because I am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose 5 Other Describe 9 No response 74 Var 24 Fmt N1 Col 33 Name Q9 X Q9 Which statement best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to evaluate the level of student knowledge und
71. Only one instructor of four used the site to regularly post materials and grades Other profs prefer to maintain their own web pages or no web resources at all use it more It would be nice if we could enter or change what email address we prefer to use don t use the default email account much so don t check it very often That they make use of the system they have and correctly label the materials on their web site post all grades on blackboard require instructors to post lecture notes and grades on BlackBoard They would update it more often Often waiting for grades to come in They did an alright job using it It would be better if all of the teachers used Blackboard More consistency among instructors More utilization of the electronic resources websites videos podcasts etc rather than textbooks BB isn t for every class or every instructor but those that do use it should either do so consistently or not at all some will put one grade in and never keep it up add to it for example No opinion Be consistant from class to class of what is posted in what links It would be helpful if the links were all the same for each class and the information was organized more efficently Post grades in an up to date manner A better working application Half the time it seems like the system won t even let the teachers access the grade books All instructors should put course materials and grades on blackboard and update it regularly
72. Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q7 Understanding that your instructors must operate within the current OSU Blackboard feature set what percentage of your instructors who use OSU Blackboard this quarter do so effectively Q7 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent 100 All 146 23 14 146 23 14 51 99 Most 296 46 91 442 70 05 50 Half 118 18 70 560 88 75 1 49 Less than half 43 6 81 603 95 56 0 None 9 1 43 612 96 99 No response 19 3 01 631 Frequency Missing 52 100 00 Q8 Of those instructors who use OSU Blackboard this quarter what percentage ask for your feedback regarding their uses of OSU Blackboard for instruction Q8 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent 100 All 37 5 86 37 5 86 51 99 Most 47 7 45 84 13 31 50 Half 42 6 66 19 97 36 13 96 99 100 00 16 16 60 86 3 01 1 49 Less than half 0 None No response Frequency Missing 52 67 68 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q9 Overall how effective do you rate your own ability to use OSU Blackboard Q9 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumul
73. THE OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY BLACKBOARD TOOLS EVALUATION SURVEY PROCEDURES AND RESULTS Submitted to Jon Dorbola Associate Director Technology Across the Curriculum Report Prepared by Lydia Newton Virginia Lesser Rachael Sexton Oregon State University Survey Research Center June 2008 Sampling Design and Operations The Oregon State University Blackboard Tools Evaluation Surveys were conducted by the Survey Research Center at Oregon State University OSU SRC during Spring Quarter 2008 The purpose of this study was to ask undergraduate students and instructors at Oregon State University about the use of OSU Blackboard This survey is part of a review initiated by the Faculty Senate Computing Resources Committee in cooperation with OSU Information Services The primary purpose of this survey is to solicit information from the user population of Blackboard to identify aspects of the Blackboard system and related infrastructure that may be improved to better serve the OSU educational community It is important to gather feedback from instructors who use Blackboard to any extent from instructors who choose not to use Blackboard from instructors who have never considered or tried using Blackboard and from students who may or may not use Blackboard Every instructor who taught a course anytime between spring quarter 2007 and winter quarter 2008 received an invitation from the OSU Survey Research Center to participate in the online su
74. Z Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other OzNot selected Var 27 87 Fmt N1 Col 1426 Name Q10_5 AA Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other OzNot selected Var 28 Fmt N1 Col 1427 Name Q10_6 AB Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other OzNot selected Var 20 Fmt N1 Col 1428 Name Q10_7 AC Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard
75. able copying of materials from one course site to another ordered lists of items frequently get scrambled when copying A buttton or link that gives online tutorial about using blacboard And frequent meetings or calls or workshops on how to use blackboard a method for securely delivering exams over BlackBoard managing exams so that other students aren t coaching the exam taker Ability to add guest or TA access myself Ability to import grades from scantron results Online midterm course evaluation survey The gradebook should allow category averages e g quiz averages and the early warning system should be able to use these averages Grade book should allow dropping lowest grade or replacing lowest with highest in category etc Front page should clearly separate courses by term This is especially annoying for faculty but it would also preclude disenrolling students after each term ability to remove prior term classes Ability to save courses in a place that would always be accessible to the instructor ability to upload multiple documents at one time Accommodating large classes i e allow multiple grades to be added to the gradebook ina more expeditious fashion Allowing discussions to be automatically stopped at a particular time point date time Add the ability to score individual criteria rubrics for open ended projects Also I m unable to comment on scores make for the Grade Forum function Allow scripted group cretion ei
76. ackboard is fine the professors need to stay on track and keep it updated It serves its purpose A bit more timely feedback about scores and grades would be helpful but mostly it is the fault of the teacher some emails went to people s trash folder maybe copies of sent emails should be accessable on Blackboard Use blackboard for course evaluations It costs me a lot of money for each lecture session so if a whole lecture is taken out of the term for course evals l ve lost a lot of instruction time think the OSU Blackboard system is a very effective tool and wouldn t change anything about it OSU Blackboard does a pretty good job but it really provides a much richer feature set than is necessary or used If professors need to post large amounts of data or complex text to their students they do so through separate websites and use Bb for the occasional announcement grading and sometimes assignment posts A standardized course management system is necessary and effective but Blackboard is really overkill It makes it more simple to keep track of all courses at once as they are all there together This program has been very helpful for me It is nice to have constant access to classroom information It is also great for cutting down paper usage and prevents me from losing those papers and not knowing what is going on in the class would benefit more from all instructors using blackboard and being required to enter grades into blackboard
77. ading so that students are always aware of their grade and anything else that is going on in the classroom It also makes it convenient to email the students and post announcements Blackboard suffices for the time being Blackboard was great for my large class size It allowed me to assign all homework assignments and not have to manually grade them unless there was a problem with a question which occurred on occasion don t think it s particularly helpful for the smaller classes in the sense that didn t find it interactive enough For a smaller class size would only use Blackboard to post grades scores The great thing about Blackboard was that we could submit grades straight from our grade book computer learning works for some folks and not so well for others Couldn t imagine instructing without it but there is much room for improvement Coure management is essential to my courses It is effective but could be significantly improved to be more intuitive Thank you Currently Blackboard allows the instructor to see results of a survey in progress In theory the instructor cannot see an individual s responses but if only one student has filled in the survey their responses are clearly visible Survey access should be locked out until the assignment is unavailable Changing availability should erase results to prevent circumventing lockout hope that there will be enough information dispersion after the upgrade in particular dept leve
78. ake it faster Make it faster If the speed does not improve SOON I am likely to move most of my stuff off Blackboard The students are complaining as well Make it handwriting friendly Make it less clunky when copying or transferring information from one area to another make it more intuitive and memorable Make it MORE TEACHER FRIENDLY We need to save time while grading not spend more time navigating the multiple screens for one action make it more user friendly Make it more user friendly For example it took me quite a while to figure out that the reason couldn t upload grades was that had them centered in the column and Blackboard expected them right justified in the cell make it more user friendly it is impossible to navigate it is VERY difficult to find anything on the site can t stand using blackboard because i get so frustrated by the inefficiency and the bulkiness of it all Make sure all students are aware of it posted a lot of material on the website and am not sure if the students understood it Make tests easier to administer The system had trouble handling my tests when used with Explorer Make the grade entry pages load faster like to provide students prompt grades and find it annoying and time consuming to have the pages load so slowly after entering each student s grade With 60 students this can take over an hour Make the gradebook faster more robust and more convenient Make the gradebook m
79. anges and allow for comments on each page of blackboard usable by instructors and students for each course teach profs to use the gradebook All grades exam grades posted on blackboard Make library and article access easier It is near impossible to find and pull up an article for research see above Uniformity across classes and the way the use the system e g some put powerpoints from lectures in course documents others in course information so each class is different and you have to dip into all folders to find what you are looking for do not have any suggestions It should be all or nothing Make it easier to find out who else is in the class and if you need to email them an easier way to find them i don t know Easier access to the library and the materials available force everybody to use it and keep course materials and grades current think the set up is perfect Make every teacher use it and use it to its full potential Its very good the way it is Make all Blackboard pages the same so things are consistant and easy to find take away a lot of the unnecessary hyperlinks and make it easier type things don t care if have to click 3 more times to do one function as long as there isn t 5 different ways to do the 162 same function it s just confusing List all the courses in plain sight with sepparate link to each component of each course s material directly under the course That is more straight forward and
80. anner Some continuity in knowing grades for assignments tests etc will be on Bb would be awesome Have them better trained to upload material Maybe post grades a little bit more regularly Make the blackboard pages more unique to each class Most of the pages are very generic which is not helpful for some classes a more user friendly discussion board Make it simpler to submit work in the Digital Dropbox Having the Add a file option and Send a File is confusing since the only option needed iw the send file Adding a file seems to have no functionality for communication with the instructors Either they use it for everthing or not at all Some professors give half of the class info in the syllabus and the other half on blackboard Some post some things on BB and tell us others in 136 class It would be nice if they used BB for everything or nothing at all Have more readings posted on Blackboard so that we don t have to print so many articles study guides for tests and course grades in all classes Make all professors use blackboard It s so much easier to keep track of what s going on Double checking to see if they recieved my assignment through the discussion board On my end it says that sent it on their end it must have said that didn t send it wish they would update grades more often some are good about it some are not Ability to read all posts to any sngle thread in a list as opposed to having to click eac
81. arter 2008 NOT using OSU Blackboard Circle one number 101 to 200 students 201 to 300 students 301 to 400 students 401 to 500 students 0 501 or more students None 1 to 25 students 26 to 50 students 51 to 75 students 76 to 100 students akWND O N Q6 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 using OSU Blackboard Circle one number 1 None 6 101 to 200 students 2 1to 25 students 7 201 to 300 students 3 26 to 50 students 8 301 to 400 students 4 51 to 75 students 9 401 to 500 students 5 76 to 100 students 10 501 or more students Q7 How important if at all are each of the following to your teaching and learning processes Not sure Very Somewhat Slightly Notatall No basis Important Important Important Important Important for opinion a The ability to com municate with students as a group and or individually by means other than face to face 1 2 3 4 5 0 b The ability of students to communicate with one another outside the classroom 1 2 3 4 5 0 c The ability to post course materials online 1 2 3 4 5 0 d The ability to post grades and scores online 1 2 3 4 5 0 e The ability to evaluate what students know understand or have yet to learn so that you may plan appropriate activities for class meetings activities 1 2 3 4 5 0 IMPORTANT PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING If you did not instruc
82. ass Podcast email feel that have a thorough knowledge of how the Blackboard system works and if there s anything don t understand there is always someone else who does None imparticular Submitting via assignments posted online or digital dropbox how to print powerpoint slides that are uploaded online without having to save them first to access the program how to use the disscussion BOARD feel don t need to learn anymore about the program since have been able to navigate it well enough for the classes have had so far If a course were to use something that was not aware of on the program then would like to learn how to do it statistics and tracking tools How is it organize but think different professors use it in different ways online homework submissions The other options other than getting lecture materials am not really sure what blackboard can do for me None right now I m graduating in a term and it would be a waste to train me but others should get more assistance creating exams quizzes on blackboard 1 Discussion threads and submission in general 2 Keeping e notes and file format compatibility 3 Troubleshooting cross platform issues7 Windows to Mac I m fine at this time All the possible uses of the tool section Integration of multiple tasks i e scheduling of assignments course schedules and calendars 149 If audio language learning materials were available would like to kno
83. aterials better so that don t get lost in poor file organization Instigate discussion earlier in the quarter The instructor has us click on one page to read one sentence or paragraph and then another for an additional sentence or paragraph Why can t they all be on the same page instead of all that clicking for what is basically the same subject matter Keeping information current on Blackborad Including contact info assignments and grades Use the discussion section more to ask extra questions to all the students to improve their learning process Use this same section to encourage students to discuss the topics of the course among them To include grades for our assignments and post them within a reasonable amount of time One instructor kept all notes on Blackboard but mine did not show was even enrolled After discussing it with him he merely said that it was unfortunate but he did not know how to remedy the problem More frequent updates Ability to offer more updated grade updates Consider formating for printing when providing lengthy reading materials Not all materials posted allowed efficient printing formats would have all the professors put categorize information put on blackboard in a uniform way That way everything would be easier to find Posting Grades That they all use it paid 600 extra dollars this term to add 3 credits for an e campus class What a rip off that was am writing a course journal that is to be
84. ative Percent Very effective 237 37 56 237 37 56 Effective 300 47 54 537 85 10 Somewhat effective 69 10 94 606 96 04 Slightly effective 8 1 27 614 97 31 No response 17 2 69 631 Frequency Missing 52 100 00 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure 69 70 APPENDIX D 1 INSTRUCTOR CODEBOOK Codebook Name BLACKBOARD 2007 INSTRUCTORS Date June 10 2008 Number of Variables in Codebook 40 Data Record Length 2295 Var 1 Fmt N4 Col 1 4 Name ID A Survey ID Var 2 Fmt N1 Col 5 Name DISP B Return Disposition 1 Complete Paper 5 No longer at University Retired 95 2 Refusal 95 6 Undeliverable Mail 95 3 Undeliverable Email 95 8 Complete Web 4 Not available on leave sabbatical 95 Var 3 Fmt N2 Col 6 7 Name QI C QI In which OSU college was most of your instruction in the last year Spring 2007 Winter 2008 1 Agricultural Sciences 8 Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences 2 Business 9 Pharmacy 3 Education 10 Science 4 Engineering 11 Veterinary Medicine 5 Forestry 12 Other Describe 6 Health and Human Sciences 99 No response 7 Liberal Arts Var 4 Fmt N1 Col 8 Name Q2_1 D Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor O0 Not selected 2 Tenure track Professor 6
85. ave got a zero on the assignment Since caught this so quickly was able to speak with my economics professor and get the grade that 135 i deserved real time chat capabilities Some instructors use the blackboard system for turning in papers but some want you to email them directly find it confusing sometimes to remember who wants what It would be nice if things were always turned in the same way None the three instructors had this quarter all used Blackboard to it s full potential and were able to guide new students through as well None very satisfied Communication with instructor via blackboard instead of outside email post grades more or earlier I m all right with the way things are right now actually Provide more information Keep up on grades The make viewable check box or whatever it s called that teachers have to click to make it visible for students to see Some instructors don t see that and say that it s online when it really isn t for their students to view The check box needs to be more noticeable or have the default be that it s viewable and have a check box that makes it visible Less features on Blackboard as a very few are used Post the announcements in time Post test scores and assignment scores on Blackboard Provide professors with a tutorial on how to use Blackboard Make sure that new teachers are aware of the features that are in blackboard and the fact that other instructors actually
86. ave heard that there are much better software packages available wonder if BB is salvageable n a n a N A l ve never used it NA na NA No No changes seems to work fine no comment No recommendations at this time No suggestion none None none none none none None none none None at the moment none at this time None can think of none I m still exploring its functionality None Not have it go down so often not sure Nothing can think of Nothing that can think of It seems to have many more features than actually use Online tutorial Only show courses that instructors are currently teaching know you can select for these but 109 the default should be that term Make gradebook function quicker With a big class it is slow evaluating and posting scores After grading and posting instructor s feedback the screen goes back to columns on far left and you have to scroll across to click on the next student s submission This slows things down option to have outside access OSU relies only on Blackboard in its instructional system where is the diversity in education This is not a manufacturiing organization where all the productt must be identical How do you challenge the students if there is no variability in instruction Our students today demand convenience and minimal personal effort to learn We are in a technologically new era but should not be training human robots Perhaps beca
87. bility for access to others external observers features are rather limited Grade book calculations If a grade item is extra credit the points should not count toward the final points in the class have not been able to figure this one out Grade management particularly when using weighted grades and extra credit can become confusing had to figure out by trial and error and google searches that the extra credit was doing a percentage of the overall grade It would be nice if we could assign it a value of 096 and let the extra credit add to the total like a raw score instead of a weight Gradebook being more accessible ie showing up at once Have clear guarantees on the confidentiality of the gradebook and on the security of the system Rumors about students hacking into the system don t help with belief in using it Have the gradebook function more speedy currently open up multiple windows of the same gradebook so that can move between these to avoid the time lag 114 Haven t used it yet Having question sub parts on exams Help instructors to see and learn from one another and each other s courses Historically Blackboard has not worked or integrated well with the systems in place at the COB How to say matrials am entirely dependent on this medium for large classes so reliability is critical do not like having a menu of 15 or so courses facing me when open blackboard would rather just have the two courses am teach
88. ble to attach multiple files in the messages Speed can be a little choppy while taking exams Other than that really like Blackboard Make all of the features easier to understand or find out about don t use half of it and I wonder what all the other features are Allow it to upload larger data files see question 12 other than that loved it mandatory for all classes to use blackboard the discussion boards are hard to use so perhaps forums instead that are easy to access and simple to use Have the list of classes that you re enrolled in should be on the left hand navigation not just on the home screen This will make it easier to switch between classes while viewing the course materials on another etc only use it to keep track of documents not handed out in class and to check my grades so putting these categories on the BB homepage would make things move along quicker Please use different color for different classes to better see them An improvement in the system would be for more instructors to use Blackboard including lab T A s for example Email that s easier to use or somehow incorporated into OSU webmail Online Detailed Tutorials Addressing ALL the BB features Quite a few of my instructors seem to have their own process for posting Course Information That is there is duplicate course information in 2 or 3 places on Blackboard Makes for some very frustrating hunting when you are trying to find instructions bet
89. board have been generally positive The interface can be a bit clunky and slow at times but this has improved in recent years Teachers who use blackboard should actually keep up with the grading posts on blackboard more course information such as textbook pages study guides and links to online information i ve used other online systems similar to blackboard for economics and the best feature they had was an EMAIL REMINDER SYSTEM that automatically sends u a message at least the day before an assignment is due Teach Instructors how to use it They are very inconsistent in their abilities Toss blackboard There are better open source programs we shouldn t be paying for this l ve used BB for teaching and am currently using it for another school system It doesn t interact well with Mac users More incentive for all professors to use it don t know have not had much experience with blackboard so cannot make a suggestion at this time in one class with a high volume of posts wanted to use the collect function to read many at one time the problem was that blackboard did not mark posts as read those had read with the collect function don t know if this has been fixed since then Also blackboard should allow users to upload a small picture of themselves to go on their page and or with their posts At the least incorporate avatars Offer training to profs and GTAs so they ll use blackboard more so I can see my grades and other st
90. brary when one is off campus so it would be nice if professors could also give the option of passing out material in class instead of ONLY on blackboard A training or how to manual would say a training course but don t think instructors have the time for that So something that walks them through how to load documents and how to best organize folders in a clear manner none make all things on blackboard that way we dont have to wonder if it was a handout or if it was on blackboard Put more course documents online When we open word document we cannot print out so need save everytime somewhere It is better if could print out None Not sure It would be that the instructors should have a better way to post grades where it s easier to find none Announcements on Blackboard are automatically notified via OSU email or other emails that the students use so that students are reminded to check Blackboard They use it all the same would make it mandatory for all grades to be posted online update the grades more often not just cramming everything into one section like course documents when some are assignments some are study guides etc 140 Combine the set of instructions with the Assignment s in 1 page instead of different attachements unless that is too big All would post grades on Blackboard would prefer that all of my professors use it to post grades Organization of where the documents are located Some ins
91. ch quarter just trying to figure out how each course instructor will use it Blackboard is not up to the web 2 0 standards The interface is ugly difficult to navigate and as a result has a tendency to hide important content behind multiple tabs that are often mislabeled or not obvious indicators of where content is stored Plus it lacks the interactivity necessary to make an online application useful these days It is an overall poorly developed program that might have been revolutionary in 1998 but is embarassing to use at a modern university in 2008 hope someone actually reads this message and does something to drastically upgrade Blackboard or just remove it to make room for a more useful software system sometimes feel like blackboard runs my life rather than helping me there is NO consistancy between profs on how to use the system and spend a lot of time figuring out which folder has what if there are new postings without an announcement on and on and on Can we 170 standardize that And maybe have an option for a auto generate email to be sent to us when a prof posts changes something in a class so don t have to check the whole site for unannounced postings 3 times a day Something in an email like instructor J Beckman has posted a new document go print and don t spend 20 minutes 3 times a day seeing if J Beckman has posted his next set of notes really like taking Blackboard classes love blackboard and think
92. ckboard all at once This would cause immeasurable amounts of frustration and work to everyone on campus Think baby steps Thanks I d don t really use Blackboard except to redirect students to the web page create and which is completely under my control without having to conform to Blackboards constraints do this because it takes far too much time to set up and maintain BB to have it do what want it to do it s a matter of time management for me Until BB becomes far more user friendly do not plan to use it except to redirect students to my web page l d like to learn more about having Blackboard exams but don t want to spend hours and hours and hours trying to figure this out I d prefer WebCT by a mile but BB is much better than the old days where you had to create your own web pages If can t depend on it being accessible to me as prep for courses I m part time will have to find other alternatives I m sure that Blackboard has all of the capabilities that need was never able to learn more than other instructors nearby had done however because training was not timely or available when needed it Please do not make changes that mean instructors have to start over from ground zero with new software just train to the capabilities that already exist In general it works although don t really have anything to compare it to as this is the only system have used in this fashion In general it s a wonderful system
93. consultation From my instructors Working with other students No thank you don t want instruction about Blackboard Other nnuunmnms urrtm 25 Q11 What aspects of OSU Blackboard would you like to learn more about Q12 What changes do you suggest that could potentially improve the OSU Blackboard system Q13 If you could make only one suggestion on how to improve the Blackboard system what would it be 27 Q14 What else would you like to say about OSU Blackboard or about your needs for a course management system in general dh 28 29 APPENDIX B INSTRUCTOR FREQUENCY RESULTS 30 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Return Disposition DISP Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Complete Paper 166 19 79 166 19 79 Refusal 10 1 19 176 20 98 Undeliverable Email 111 13 23 287 34 21 Not available on leave sabbatical 17 2 03 304 36 23 No longer at University Retired 33 3 93 337 40 17 Undeliverable Mail 27 3 22 364 43 38 Complete Web 56 62 839 100 00 3l Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q1 In which OSU college was most of your instruction in the last year Spring 2007 Winter 2008 Q1 Frequency Percent
94. course site for testing Provide access to instructors well in advance of their course term Allow for REAL collaboration with other instructors by making the process of adding another instructor to the class list easy MAKE SURE that new and old instructors have EASY access to learning how to use Blackboard especially at the start of the school year was extremely frustrated trying to figure out BB at the start of last Fall term as a new instructor Make sure that the forwarding element always works make sure that the professors new to using blackboard are shown how to use it had to ask fellow TA s to show me how to do it and how to make it available to the students in the class was unaware that had to activate it for the first week make the front end less busy make the gradebook uploading easier should be no need to upload a single column at the time should be a text file etc Make the gradebook utilities much faster i e inputting and uploading grades manually This is my biggest pet peave about Blackboard Make the input of class names less clunky le CH 202 2008 003 or whatever is not real intuitive or user friendly Make the inputting of grades easier by allowing keyboard manipulation around the form It would also speed entering grade data if the cursor would jump to the first student name in the list that begins with a letter entered on the keyboard Reduce grade entering errors by putting the grade column next to t
95. ddle of the term very hard to print notes when this happens So try to fix BB before classes start I d make it mandatory for instructors to put up at least a rudimentary Blackboard page with a syllabus exam dates office hours etc think there s a lot of potential in the discussion board section of Blackboard pages but they are rarely used this is likely to be the fault of the students though as think the majority just aren t interested in posting to it and engaging in further discussion Perhaps if it was anonymous or you were allowed to choose a username that even the teacher couldn t trace Also I d like to see the Grades section of Blackboard featured more prominently it s a minor quibble but it s a pain to go through the Tools when all ever want is Grades also sometimes forget it s even in Tools Make it mandatory Its a little slow on loading pages Removing some of the clutter of unused features focus on the key elements make a sign in area on the osu homepage i use blackboard alot and i hate going thru the website to get to it Overall class grade calculator for a certain class at a certain point in term Pick some program other than blackboard Links to the my oregon state links directly from my courses page make it more user frendly Everything on blackboard are useful Availability of course readings online have it respond faster when you click on a button especially the grades wish it
96. dent s overall courses Being able to leave documents from coursework in storage from previous courses and go back and retrieve them make it easier for teachers to understand that way they ll use it more easer to navogate It would be GREAT if we could save course materials documents from previous terms It s frustrating when the term ends and all the powerpoints etc are no longer available Also some professors are horrible at organizing the material on black board If there was a manual for them so that there could be consistency that would improve blackboard s usefulness Also some professors don t like to input grades on BB because they think it s unreliable maybe if the grade sheet had more functions such as in excel they would use it more It s really helpful to keep track of your scores in the class so you don t have to bug the professor about minutia It would be helpful to be able to print 2 sided so paper s not wasted Make it easier for student and teacher interactions l e option for an instant messaging type system also found the organization slightly lacking was usually primarily focused on my grades and there were slightly annoying to navigate into and between classes Make the categories more instinctive Consistant use by teachers in all classes Make grades more accurate rather than on a weighted system Make it more user friendly for those importing data Maybe allow students to upload material as well
97. dents 9 401 to 500 students 2 1 to 25 students 6 101 to 200 students 10 501 or more students 3 26 to 50 students 7 201 to 300 students 99 No response 4 51 to 75 students 8 301 to 400 students Var 16 Fmt N2 Col 24 25 Name Q6 P Q6 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 using OSU Blackboard 1 None 5 76 to 100 students 9 401 to 500 students 2 1 to 25 students 6 101 to 200 students 10 501 or more students 3 26 to 50 students 7 201 to 300 students 99 No response 4 51 to 75 students 8 301 to 400 students Var 17 Fmt N1 Col 26 Name Q7A Q a The ability to communicate with students as a group and or individually by means other than face to face 1 Very Important 5 Not at all Important 2 Important 0 Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 4 Slightly Important Var 18 Fmt N1 Col 27 Name Q7B R b The ability of students to communicate with one another outside the classroom 1 Very Important 5 Not at all Important 2 Important O Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 13 4 Slightly Important Var 19 Fmt N1 Col 28 Name Q7C S c The ability to post course materials online 1 Very Important 5 Not at all Important 2 Important 0 Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 4 Slightly Important Var 20 Fmt N1 Col 29 Name Q7D T d The ability to post grades and scores online 1 Very Important 5
98. dge we have not yet received a completed questionnaire from you OSU Information Services has been asked by the OSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the Computer Resources Committee CRC to evaluate the OSU Blackboard system In making this evaluation it is crucial to ask both users and those who choose not to be users to rate aspects of the systems functionality and provide their likes and dislikes You have been chosen at random from a list of OSU winter quarter students to participate in this survey Even if you do not currently use Blackboard in your classes we would still appreciate your participation In order to ensure the anonymity of respondents the OSU Survey Research Center OSU SRO is administering the survey and will provide analysis of results to the CRC The survey can be found online at http www stat oregonstate edu Blackboard Students Once there you will need a PIN number to access the survey Your personal PIN number is XXXX Please know that your responses and comments will remain anonymous and confidential The Survey Research Center takes steps to ensure that anonymity will not be compromised in any way The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete We know that your time is precious and we are grateful for your participation Thank you Virginia M Lesser Director Survey Research Center If you have any questions about the purpose of this survey please contact Jon Dorbolo Associate
99. e How to utilize it so the students see it as more of a hassle than a help With courses being offered in the classroom how can it be used more efficiently or augment the classroom experience hoz to gather assessment data to measure student accomplishment of learning outcomes how to upload scantron grade results to Blackboard and then extract assessment data HTML translation tools from word processing enhancing non blackboard communications podcasting if available am satisfied with my use of Blackboard am using relatively simple assessment questions T F multi choice and short essay questions on Blackboard could use more information on more probing sorts of questioning tools if they are available do not know how to use blackboard for any other functions except email and posting materials would like to learn what else blackboard can do for me in the classroom don t know if this is the right spot for this comment but since don t have a back button on this survey to go to a prior question I ll put this in here am VERY frustrated with blackboard s gradebook it is cumbersome and not at all flexible have done my grades in a spreadsheet 98 for years and am forced to upload stuff to gradebook because can t get the gradebook to do what I typically do in a spreadsheet Next term will fight through getting an alternate ID from 130 students so that can post my excel spreadsheet on blackboard with student
100. e Bb because don t need to encourage students to talk to each other in person have given the students the opportunity to communicate through the Discussion board but few to none have done this have left it up to the students have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with each other outside the classroom because am not a proponent of this type of communication have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom because other means meet our needs have no idea if the students used it for my class have not directly used Blackboard to allow students to coomunicate with one another have not done it have not done so but plan to do so have not used Blackboard much for this purpose but plan to use it more in the future have used Blackboard for this purpose because do not have a need for it have used it to allow students to communicate but they rarely do unless it s assigned for them to have to communicate via blackboard have used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate outside class and may do so again have used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom but may do so again have used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom we may consider doing it again just haven t just haven t found the need for that capability make it
101. e are too many options that aren t even used by the instructor the page says something like document folder empty would like to have those pages not included in the course Bb because it gets confusing Professors seem to use it because its there and available not because it presents a useful form of pedagogy When we are asked to use it it seems like busy work rather than meaningful tools for learning would like to see profs use it more effectively Make all instructors use it for dourse materials and grades Some teachers post document in formats that can t read Make it clear what format they need to be in find no difficulties so far with the Blackboard system Better instructions for professors know some are intimidated by it More ascetically pleasing Not really any like everything about it mandatory use for each class so that teachers wont make stupid personal websites that dont show up with the rest of the classes on blackboard Increase the number of servers offering the service during dead finals weeks as the page request will often time out before getting any information DON T ALLOW INSTRUCTORS TO POST THE SAME CLASS WITH ONE SPELLING ERROR Teach them how to erase duplicate courses from the system Have the professors use it The only means of improvement that can see right now is how effective an instructor is at presenting material Accessing information is not an issue on Blackboard Make it less time
102. e costs of figuring out what it can do and learning how to use it don t think that it applies to all disciplines and don t find that my courses are lacking without it enjoy learning to use it more effectively find it a great way to make documents accessible before the quarter begins and during the term For example students cannot say they lost their syllabus and didn t know because it is available online find that students don t like to study posted information on line and tend not to print documents from blackboard Most seem to prefer to have hard copies in book form to work with gave up on Blackboard years ago when used it to give a weekly quiz Sophomore engineering class It was painful to use had to enter all possible correct solutions including use of different numbers of significant figures and expression of the units and could not possibly cover all variations This led to much angst among the students and to their instructor then gave up on Blackboard forever have found Blackboard useful when have taught large classes However it seems mildly inconvenient for small or even middle sized under 30 classes have found it extremely useful in communicating with students and getting course materials out to students who for whatever reason are not in class have found the help desk to be extremely professional polite and helpful have my own system of classrooom management with which can do everything
103. e grades has always been placed in a very non intuitive location of the course navigation menu in my opinion No major complaintsthough Make it easier to sign in Onid passwords are difficult to remember when having your mail forwarded to your personal email account less downtime it seems like blackboard is out of service alot and usually when i need it the most That the default message that tells students that they are not currently enrolled before the term starts should be changed to Blackboard is not open until the first day of the term This panics students and results in a lot of confusion and extra work for student services SEE ABOVE Direct links to course grades Give the blackboard the ability to remember students by some other way except login and password There are so many login names and passwords to remember went to writing them down on a sheet that carried with me have not had much experience with blackboard so cannot make a suggestion at this time make it easier to read posts look at the inbox structure of gmail it is easy to use Training teachers don t know have not used it recently Q14 169 Cannot think of anything to comment on nothing unknown really like the way it is set up and how teachers are able to make it thier own with the toolbars of the left of the screen like the Idea of Blackboard It seems good to have a universal way of managing all of the online course information for
104. e professors use the tabs course documents assignments etc for different things It would be nice if they used the tabs specifically as they are described Shuffling to find information would be easier Putting course documents under folder tabs that make sense and are easy to remember Reduce multiple sites for the same course My Statistics 351 course had three sites one for lab one for the specific lecture and one for the combined course i e all lectures Maybe if they take notes and are able to to scan them on to black board It would be nice if they could make more outside resources available to us through blackboard Somehow motivate them to keep grades updated on a more regular basis all instructors post grades on blackboard Timely feedback upload our assignments to them rather than wasting paper by turning in a hard copy would like for EVERY instructor to use Blackboard at least the bare minimum of putting the syllabus online If an instructor teaches two or more of the same courses in the same term would make Blackboard capable of allowing them to enter information at one time This would keep instructors from getting confused and possibly only inputing information about one of their courses and not the other Improve access to grades and scores update them more than once a term Keeping grades up to date Keep everything updated and put things such as assignments where they actually need to be im no sure If in
105. e through the messages link in the communication link l ve gone to three other online schools and Blackboard is the best one l ve used have noticed Blackboard can get a little hesitant when taking exams over it That s really the only issue I ve had 152 Make seeing grades easier so you don t have to go to tools first Tough to say The grades take a while to generate when there is a lot but that could also be my internet connection That every professor is required to use it It is frustrating when only a few of your professors use it and the others don t I like to be able to have all my information for each class posted On site organization Some infromation provided in Blackboard that referenced outside website could be a slight hassle Allowing more of these references to open in another window would make it easier to view the information while continuing to view the questions of papers that referneced the information It would be nice to be able to check email on blackboard or have OSU email and blackboard be linked together better connections between students on BB less links there are so many simpler navigation like it the way it is Great color scheme none Make the grading options less rigid for the instructors Some instructors have extra assignments that are extra and shouldn t be counted in the total points but have to be because of the way blackboard is set up so it throws off the accuracy of the grade Have the
106. e used Blackboard to assess student learning used it extensively for an on line course and one year made self study quizzes available on line have not used Blackboard for that purpose recently but would use it again if it met a particular need have used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning and may do so again have used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning in the past and depending on the structure of class may use it again just haven t used it know what can do with Bb just haven t implemented it plan to use Blackboard for some assessment but not all i post lecture notes prefer to use homework exams and in class questions to evaluate student understanding teach activity courses so do most of my evaluation work through physical activity not on the computer use Blackboard to assess student learning at some levels but use other means to assess learning at higher levels of understanding use Blackboard to assess students in my online class not in my on campus class use blackboard to post assignments everything else is done through email do not feel that Blackboard is appropriate for assessing student knowledge and understanding use it to assess 1 safety quiz It is such a pain that don t use it for more than that It might work but am happy with my existing processes and don t see any big gain using Blackboard But I can think of times would they just haven t come up
107. eans other than face to face 1 Very Important 5 Not at all Important 2 Important 0 Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 4 Slightly Important Var 12 Fmt N1 Col 662 Name Q5B L b The ability to communicate with other students by means other than face to face 1 Very Important 5 Not at all Important 2 Important 0O Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 4 Slightly Important Var 13 Fmt N1 Col 663 Name Q5C M c Having online access to course materials 1 Very Important 5 Not at all Important 2 Important 0O Not sure No basis for opinion 3 Somewhat Important 9 No response 4 Slightly Important 84 Var 14 Fmt N1 Col 664 Name Q5D N d Having online access to your course grades and scores 1 Very Important 2 Important 3 Somewhat Important 4 Slightly Important Fmt N1 Col 665 a Communication with instructors 1 Very effective 2 Effective 3 Somewhat effective 4 Slightly effective Var 15 5 Not at all Important OzNot sure No basis for opinion 9 No response Name Q6A O 5 Not at all effective 0 Not Applicable No Basis for Opinion 9 No response Fmt N1 Col 666 b Communication with other students 1 Very effective 2 Effective 3 Somewhat effective 4 Slightly effective Var 16 Fmt N1 Col 667 c Access to course materials 1 Very effective 2 Effective 3 Somewhat effective 4 Slightly effective Var 17 Name Q6B P 5zNot
108. easier to hide classes that are not currently being taught The blackboard greeting page is a mess because of this It was easy to learn and get started on as a neophyte Now need to develop my skills more It s a nice tool even though don t use it as much as should It s nice that students know how to use it It s cumbersome for large courses and extremely time consuming It s really only set up for smaller courses in its current form strongly suggest meeting with people that are using Blackboard and currently teaching large classes to fully understand the frustrations and special problems that we experience on a day to day basis Students expect us to use the system but it is very difficult for a large course It s not as much flexible as want It s OK probably a bit too many options that are a bit redundant cause the biggest issue It s ugly It s working very effectively for me l ve found a variety of other tools meet my requirements better John Dobolo has been very helpful Keep up the good work More freedom with structure i e ability to format syllabus course documents etc in a more visually stimulating way like to use Blackboard but I d like to make it reflect the values and 126 interests of my class more It s so boring and generic Having more design freedom would make it a better communication tool More knowledge The students are clueless about it the helpdesk struggles and students are emailing
109. eat deal of time can be wasted in sorting out different formats and locations of course specific documents Have all of them post grades on blackboard More frequent grade updates and easier access to contacting classmates wouldn t make a change To update the grades more often 133 More consistent use of the different folders in Blackboard cant think of any Use more of the features many don t know about Updates more regularly on grades only one wasn t very good about that To have instructors return emails a little sooner na Um actually using it If the instructors used HTML more as opposed to Word documents The docs are timeconsuming to open compared to HTML No recommendations Improve class discution understand class dealines are student responsibility but the announcements page can be used to post deadlines for weekly class work more regularly than what it is now Some professors do this but not all and for sole student convinience it is great This is a superficial improvement but in the last 2 3 years online classes have been good for me no real improvement needed Post all grades on blackboard immediately None Teach them how to use it and make them use it It s pointless if they just use it half the time Email notification and first page of Bb announcements when new course documents content assignments and or course changes have been posted Eliminate the dual Blackboard and COB class website One or the
110. eatures in it and how to use them if you choose to Not sure By focusing on integration with our personal computers think Blackboard could be more of use to me The program should be able to upload calendar programs Continue to expand options for tutorials Don t have any suggestions Make it easier to navigate drop all the non course clutter go to blackboard to get info my professors post nothing else Make it more uniform An automatic login remember me option for personal computers would be great Standardize it make it so every instructor uses it in the same way Require that all instructors post grades on Blackboard so we can always know how we re doing Don t charge extra money to add e campus classes Allow the instructor to choose the relevant folders and leave out all others Speed the blackboard system is slow to load slow to log in slow to navigate It needs to be sped up en du Un instructors to use blackboard to post class notes assignments and other useful information i dont know make a better user interface or make the options faster to navigate through something like the windows folder structure seems easy enough The tabs and all the links can get to be confusing and slow Automatically send emails to students when there are changes made by the advisor new materials added new score posted etc get rid of it Remove duplicate listing for slash classes Often a web page exists twice for the 400 500 co
111. ege Student Services Administration PharmD not PhD in Pharmacy Botany and Plant Pathology Undeclared Water Resource Policy and Management Spanish and Education am a non matriculating student History Education am a non degree seeking student take dual classes in both Forestry and Fish and Wildlife Undecided Will determine this summer Taking classes for BLM 401 series Pre nursing Liberal Arts with a minor in Anthropology Liberal Arts law communication amp writing Molecular and cellular biology English and Education Masters in Education with an emphasis in bilingual education Undeclared Liberal Arts Middle Eastern Studies Bioresource Research my major is currently undeclared Natural Sciences Teacher Counselor Education am a biology major and also Pre med pre nursing Zoology and Education Health Management Policy and Human Development amp Family Sciences 131 History and Philosophy already have just adding courses Interior Design Housing Studies post graduate courses for medical school Natural Resource Extension and Education International Public Health Pre Pharmacy and Business Enology and Viticulture Economics and Education Biochemistry Biophysics Radiation Health Physics Computer Science with a Double Degree in Education Industrial Engineering and Spanish Undecided Fisheries and Wildlife International Degree Honors College non degree Dual major Mathematics Education G
112. enjoyed having to use it that much because much rather have my teacher tell me what need to do in class rather then having to get online and check to see what they want me to do love this website and wish all of my teachers would use it think that being able to access your grades without having to meet with an instructor is very resourceful and that it would be helpful if all instructors did so nothing love having blackboard wish that more instructors used it It s a great way to set up study groups amp have discussions But when blac board is not available then sometimes students must resort to stalking each other on facebook It is hard enough each term to have to learn and unlearn each professor s individual formats It would make it easier to universalize a little more would like a personalized calendar that would automatically email alerts about tests club activities and teacher made schedule modifications It is the most effective way to manage classes and course material with an institution as big as Oregon State do not know Great tool for distributing course information and encouraging discussion have been using WebCT at PSU this quarter so have forgotten alot about Blackboard Sorry The system seems somewhat bloated if there was a way to customize it for my needs may be more inclined to use it think it is a very effective way to keep on track of classes material grades and to communicate wi
113. er 2007 through winter quarter 2008 using OSU Blackboard Mean Std Error Lower 95 CL for Mean Upper 95 CL for Mean 115 7149682 5 4828979 104 9479017 126 4820346 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys How important if at all are each of the following to your teaching and learning processes The FREQ Procedure a The ability to communicate with students as a group and or individually by means other than face to face Cumulative Cumulative Q7A Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 6 0 95 6 0 95 Very Important 356 56 33 362 57 28 Important 148 23 42 510 80 70 Somewhat Important 70 11 08 580 91 77 Slightly Important 30 4 75 610 96 52 Not at all Important 18 2 85 628 99 37 No response 4 0 63 632 100 00 Frequency Missing 207 b The ability of students to communicate with one another outside the classroom Cumulative Cumulative Q7B Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 41 6 49 41 6 49 Very Important 129 20 41 170 26 90 Important 150 23 73 320 50 63 Somewhat Important 149 23 58 469 74 21 Slightly Important 67 10 60 536 84 81 Not at all Important 90 14 24 626 99 05 No response 6 0 95 632 100 00 Frequency Missing 207 46 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Ins
114. er assessment tools on line testing Creating more Blackboard exciting pages Having students communicate together Organizational strategies use of the drop box Page design Podcast etc podcasting Portfolio development is my next step Portfolios and content packages posting grades publishing slides and other material allowing students to provide anonymous feedback questions Posting relevant Youtube videos that relate to course learning that are embedded in Blackboard Versus providing a link they have to follow and which might become broken at some point posting video like lectures on line Printing hard copy of the Blackboard frames is quite frustrating sometimes often get the logo frame table of contents etc which preceed the subject frame really want It s wasteful of paper Other times don t get the frame want because it s not selectable Providing quizzes online through BB quiz administration inserting video clips and associated commentary possibly audio Facilitating question and answer from students Quizzes Quizzes with Respondus Setting up group communication for workteams set up and workflow versus static repository of documents etc shortcuts to make it less clunky to roll one term over to the next Some of the finer details of use including but to limited to blogging tools and course portfolios spreadsheets for grading manipulating percentages of scores Student assessment student comm
115. eraction don t need Blackboard for this interface between choices 1 and 2 have used BB for assessment and may again but not for sure E Campus only have not had the need for this have not used the assessment tools but would love to learn how have only used blackboard to recieve files drop box but not the measure knowledge though the informaiton contained in the files is used to measure knowledge blackboard itself is not have other assessment media do not want to use Blackboard for this purpose doubt I ll use it I m WebCT expert and Blackboard is simply too clunky in this regard WebCT is much more elegant and time saving On the other hand since BB has purchased WebCT there is always hope that some of the better WebCT features will be incorporated have and will continue to use Blackboard though it does not fully meet my needs have but am unsure if i will continue to have never used Blackboard to assess student learning have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom because prefer to use other methods than online have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning because other means meet my needs have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning but I plan to learn how to do so have never used but am familiar with the tools have not used Blackboard to assess student learning but would like to do so more in the future hav
116. erstanding or progress 1 I use OSU Blackboard to assess student learning and plan to continue doing so 2 I have used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning in the past but do not plan to do so again 3 I have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs 4 I have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning because I am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose 5 Other Describe 9 No response Var 25 Fmt N1 Col 34 Name Q10 Y Q10 Which statement best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside of the classroom 1 I use OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside of the classroom and plan to continue to do so 2 I have used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom but do not plan to do so again 3 I have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with another outside the classroom because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs 4 have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom because I am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose 5 Other Describe 9 No response Var 26 Fmt N1 Col 35 Name Q11 Z Q11 In your opinion how effective are your students in making use of the OSU Blackboard system 1 Very effective 3 Somewhat effective
117. estment is a poor reason to continue using the system as alternatives are cheap to switch to Works great The grading section could be broken down further For example one of my teachers has overall grade percentage tests projects assignments but he also has what he calls checks Checks are a separate total and if you reach a certain number you get a boost in the grade But the totals can t be separated in the program and it also requires the professor to enter a point value for the checks so it results in a total point percentage in my grades section that means nothing Hopefully that makes some sense My teacher ends up just posting an excel spreadsheet in course info have professors display past present and future assignments on the first page of the class page where the comments are shown it would help to show notices whenever anything is added or updated on the site Sometimes it is really hard to find what you re looking for It could be better organized It gets the job done now don t think anything really has to be done Layout could be cleaner think the vast majority of the features are not used I m not a big fan of the fact that there are separate links for recitations lectures and labs when they are in most cases the same class That every teacher would use it And not just have the coarse on blackboard but actually update it Better compatibility with Acrobat in Firefox and fix printing bugs in Acrobat documents
118. f OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside of the classroom Circle one number 1 2 use OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside of the classroom and plan to continue to do so have used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom but do not plan to do so again have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with another outside the classroom because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs have never used OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside the classroom because am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose Other Describe Q11 In your opinion how effective are your students in making use of the OSU Blackboard system Circle one number 19 akWND Very effective Effective Somewhat effective Slightly effective Not at all effective Q12 To what extent do you ask for feedback from your students regarding your uses of OSU Blackboard for instruction Circle one number ROD To a great extent To a moderate extent Very little Not at all Q13 How effective do you rate your own ability to use OSU Blackboard Circle one number akRWND Very effective Effective Somewhat effective Slightly effective Not at all effective Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools a
119. f at all have the following OSU Blackboard features been for you Not o Etrit E eee Opinion a Communication with instructors o Mo C o Bc C b Communication with other students C C C C C C C Access to course materials C C C C C C oO C C C C d Access to course grades and scores Q7 Understanding that your instructors must operate within the current OSU Blackboard feature set what percentage of your instructors who use OSU Blackboard this quarter do so effectively 100 All 51 99 Most 50 Half C 1 49 Less than half 096 None Q7A Understanding that your instructors must operate within the current OSU Blackboard feature set If you could make one change that would improve your instructor s use of the OSU Blackboard system what would it be 24 Q8 Of those instructors who use OSU Blackboard this quarter what percentage ask for your feedback regarding their uses of OSU Blackboard for instruction 100 All 51 99 Most 50 Half 1 49 Less than half 0 None Q9 Overall how effective do you rate your own ability to use OSU Blackboard Very effective Effective Somewhat effective Slightly effective Notat all effective Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply l Face to face workshops One on one consultation Online tutorials Email consultation Telephone
120. f new features are added it is nice to know but other than that feel comfortble with BB When Blackboard can lead class discussions discussions not lectures and read and grade papers please let me know When get on the blackboard page for the course instructor there are many many tools that have not used It would be helpful to get an overview of what each of them do so that can decide which to use Also have taken workshops on using Blackboard for student assessment It has appeared quite daunting and so I d appreciate instruction on how to make it appear less so Thanks Whether settting up communication assessment would work for me Why we pay for and use blackboard and not less expensive and better open source products such as Moodle or Saki Writing collaboratively where all students can access the latest drafts plus using discussion boards so that students must post first before being able to read other students posts 102 Q16 1 Continuity of data i e have my formatting and materials ready for the next time teach the course 2 Be able to clone a course 1 differentiating audits from graded students 2 easier manipulations of gradebook Blackboard uses too much browser area Have the option for a sparse window Think Google Blackboard is faster than in previous years but it could still use improvement The problem is a combination of processing speed and too many confirmatory buttons Quiz editing i
121. fective 5 Not at all effective 2 Effective 4 Slightly effective 9 No response Var 23 Fmt N1 Col 1422 Name Q10_1 W Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other O Not selected Var 24 Fmt N1 Col 1423 Name Q10_2 X Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other O Not selected 86 Var 25 Fmt N1 Col 1424 Name Q10_3 Y Q10 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Click all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 From my instructors 7 Working with other students 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 34 9 Other OzNot selected Var 26 Fmt N1 Col 1425 Name Q10_4
122. ffectively run online discussions How to effectively use Blackboard for student instruction in and outside of the classroom How to effectively use the program What is the program capable of How to post and assess quizzes in Blackboard HOW TO ENCOURAGE COLLABORATIONS AMONG STUDENTS How to evaluate student learning and how to promote student communication with each other How to get IPA fonts to work directly in Blackboard How to import exams into blackboard and to learn more about options regarding exams quizzes with the formats How to make it easier to upload and download grades between Blackboard and Excel How to navigate through Blackboard faster and set up my own navigation heirarchy sp feel the interface is slowly and the navigation structure is confusing There seems to be a lot duplication in the navigation structure How to organize the classes I m teaching list so it s easier to use how to put articles on blackboard how to allow students to communicate on blackboard what are all the possible uses of blackboard How to use blackboard to administer tests How to use Blackboard to assess students and to allow them to communicate with one another How to use discussion boards how to use the grading system to its fullest How to use discussion board most effeciently How to use statstics tracking more effectively Mainly how to get the most out of the system in the shortest amount of time It feels akward and inflexabl
123. for your participation We know that your time is precious Jon Dorbolo Co Chair Computer Resources Committee Kathy Howell Co Chair Computer Resources Committee 1 OSU Blackboard is an enterprise wide online learning resources management system that is available to all OSU instructors and students at http my oregonstate edu This system provides a web interface and tool set by which instructors may provide information and activities to students You may learn more about OSU Blackboard at http my oregonstate edu tac 12 Student 1 linked email Dear OSU Student A few days ago you should have received an email from Faculty Senate Computing Resources Committee CRC Co Chairs Jon Dorbolo and Kathy Howell that introduced an important study the CRC is conducting to evaluate the OSU Blackboard system You are one of a small number of Winter quarter OSU students asked to participate in this important online survey for Blackboard In order to ensure the anonymity of respondents the OSU Survey Research Center OSU SRO is administering the survey and will provide analysis of results to the CRC We would like to hear from you regardless of whether or not you have used Blackboard We encourage you to be candid in your responses so that meaningful information will result The survey can be found online at http www stat oregonstate edu Blackboard Students Once there you will need a PIN number to access the survey Your personal
124. g your uses of OSU Blackboard for instruction Q12 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent To a great extent 46 9 04 46 9 04 To a moderate extent 163 32 02 209 41 06 Very little 172 33 79 381 74 85 Not at all 126 24 75 507 99 61 No response 2 0 39 509 Frequency Missing 330 100 00 33 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q13 How effective do you rate your own ability to use OSU Blackboard Q13 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Very effective 44 8 64 44 8 64 Effective 237 46 56 281 55 21 Somewhat effective 178 34 97 459 90 18 Slightly effective 39 7 66 498 97 84 Not at all effective 9 1 77 507 99 61 No response 2 0 39 509 Frequency Missing 330 100 00 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure 54 55 APPENDIX C STUDENT FREQUENCY RESULTS 56 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q1 What is your current class standing Q1 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Freshman 104 15 23 1
125. good reasons to learn yet another computer program Getting rid of homepage clutter grading grading Grading and assessment 97 Grading with complex grade formulas Monitoring term long projects Simple short answer quizzes Anonymous student learning assessment Groups digital drop box collaboration how do easily upload grades from the MlIne computer center directly into Blackboard just can t figure it out Also would like to learn how to have students take a test on Blackboard and have their grades automatically put into Blackbard and have the test send variable questions for each student or variable order of questions How it can help with student projects How to assess student learning via Blackboard How to be more efficient at using its features how to expedite my tasks How to craft a useful learning assessment using blackboard that the students can easily respond to students take less than 30 additional seconds to enter answer over paper response Note that the student response may will almost certainly involve lengthy math work How to customize Blackboard to fit the need of my course content and student s needs i e large number of students with various abilities and how to manage this via Blackboard how to do quizzes and grade them automatically via Blackboard in a way that is timed ie the quiz is available for a specific time period then is automatically graded and returned to me can do how How to e
126. h better if you had two sets of questions one to pertain to online courses and one to pertain to classroom courses teach both online and in the classroom and many of my answers about Blackboard use and value would be different depending on whether I m referring to my online courses or my classroom courses Thx for all your efforts and interest in my feedback Training sessions set up for GTAs and ongoing workshops for instructors professors We have students from outside OSU LBCC CCC WOU Corban and Willamette therefore an OSU Blackboard solution does not work well for our in and out of class discussions and work groups We have a Cadet Command ROTC BB that all students can use and that has shown better utility in meeting our unique requirements We need to be able to combine some sections of a single class into a single Blackboard course For example if two teachers are teaching two sections each of a particular course they EACH would need a combined Blackboard course for their sections As it stands instructors have no control over grouping of sections What we really need is a way to copy files to directories where only individual students can see them This should be coupled with a process such that the scantron results sheets you said 128 AAA correct is ABA can be distributed automatically This would make it possible to avoid handing back materials scantron and others saving class time realize we might be able to u
127. h one individually Understanding the Blackboard system more effectively Consistency of layout how to find course materials for example and actual material posted course materials and grades because not all instructors post materials the same way or post the same things some of my instructors do not put grades on blackboard post grades more quickly train the instructors before the term on how to use blackboard specifically the upload posting of coarse documents Video Lectures and labs Better material oragnization n a Consistent use of posting places ie announcements course documents discussion board Updating their information or course documents more early More discussion between instructor student That all of the instructors place all important information pertaining to the course on blackboard took a few courses through Chemeketa and they use a form of Flash Macromedia so could open up the lectures that had Powerpoint slides but I also had voice of the instructor as if it were being taught in a classroom allowing the instructor to expound upon the slides This was amazingly more effective and engaging than just reading a Powerpoint presentation It would be an extremely useful tool at OSU Improvement of organization Encourage interaction between students via the message board something more meaningful than dude slept through class can anybody tell me what we talked about It s not Blackboard it s the profe
128. hat is for the one professor who actually posts grades on a regular basis For all my other classes have no idea how I m doing until the end of the term when I get my final grades Sure it s nice to know your progress in class but can live without it feel blackboard has many flaws but that it works good enough for me There is often too many tabs it would be nice if the links would be eliminated if instructor doesn t use them or highlighted in some way All is great in blackboard and I am sure there are ideas that can improve the system but am not very creative some times there are repetitions of the same course that dosen t work Bb is an amazing tool Even so it does not offer the well rounded exchange of ideas that comes with face to face meetings find the mix of face to face and Bb excellent l ye been impressed that have not encountered ANY technological glitches in 2 terms of use This is exceptional Good work Blackboard seems more stable this term than previously After a learning period Blackboard is very easy to use also use Moodle through LCC and Blackboard is more student friendly It is a great system and teachers and students should continue to use BB and expand their use of it would love to see more online courses offered via Blackboard It would help if there is more continuity among users both students and instructors it seems like everyone uses it differently and we spend a great deal of time ea
129. he grading is not completely user friendly haven t used it in awhile though to give specifics see above first suggestion Fewer clicks to get where I m going Less shutdowns and make it run faster ITS SO SLOW don t have the time between school and work to run through the tutorials about full use of Bb Bb is too rich to absorb all at once at the beginning of a program would love to have had our Extended Campus Masters program begin with explicit Bb training during every session of the first term of our IT course This would allow us to build our foundational understanding of Bb try it out and then learn additional features try them out etc Better use of date and time of announcements One suggestion is to ask the instructor to use Blackboard only At least one of my instructors uses Blackboard sparingly with most of the material on his class website Less navigation would increase efficiency see previous answers PUT BI 314 CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ON ECAMPUS AS AN ONLINE COURSE AND LINK IT TO BLACKBOARD THE LECTURES FOR THAT COURSE WERE NOT AVAILABLE FALL 07 ON BB AND THE TESTS WERE DIFFICULT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT COINCIDE WITH THE TEACHING AND STUDY GUIDE FORMAT Make is more user friendly having to make multiple clicks to do a single task is tedious and an unnecessary consumer of time have teachers use it more often to assign homework Increase interactivity by introducing features that notify users of ch
130. he name rather than on the opposite side of the screen Make the most frequently done tasks more prominent so all the many options do not confuse Making instructor accessibility seamless and easy Making it easier to view large class gradesheets without having to continually wait for the next page making the items listed in the answer to the previous question easy to do Many students seem to have problems opening ppt documents in BB windows Because I ve been a student know to save it to my desktop but many students report problems with opening and saving ppt documents through BB Maybe more shortcut keys to navigate from to the control panel and other commonly used menus message system show the senders in the inbox recipient is ME allow multiple attachments in the message system allow multiple messages without re editing the entires in other type of content allow the attachments in the message system carry their original names when downloaded more computing power More design options e g how and what to show the first page etc More FAQs for infrequent users like me who cannot call anyone during business hours to address my situation More flexibility in course design both visual and available tools 108 More flexibility in how the layout appears the current menu system options constrain the use of multiple options such as graphics additional text that is not an announcement and can be placed in multiple locations
131. hedual that shows all assignments and quizzes for all classes at the same time Redesign a more user friendly GUI make it more intuitive and create a notification feature that alerts users to changes since their last login get all the profs on board it is rediculous that they aren t all using it post grades there and use the subsections correctly post assignments in the assignments folder hate hunting for where a professor hid a document Can you make those tab more specific so there is no question where different types of documents should be posted see last Library and article access 151 think the system works very well Uniformity across classes and the way the use the system e g some put powerpoints from lectures in course documents others in course information so each class is different and you have to dip into all folders to find what you are looking for do not have any suggestions If a professor posts something on blackboard it would be nice to get an email telling us that the professor has posted something and we should go and check it out more consistent use by instructors don t know had a difficult time trying to find articles that needed to read like said before standardize and simplify the menus Its annoying to have different menus for different classes Have the same links leading to the same places every time nothing make it easier to find email addresses for classmates none Enforce all
132. hitecture need an area like discussion boards but that allows students to post their own profiles and share their work Changes in course instruction communication of students w each other which sounds like it would be valuable in classes that have group activities and also for assessment which don t know anything about communication with students online examination and any new features which do not know since spring 2007 Content system tests and quizzes podcasting Continuity of data learning assessment Copying content from one term to another Group discussions Course design interactive techniques used by other instructors time management by Blackboard instructors etc creating online exams wish it would select from random questions so students had different quesitons would also like to use the online chat function customizing it to make it easier for my students to find where materials are Cutting and pasting the information I ve put in for one term into the course info for the same class that s offered the next term hated having to re enter everything because couldn t figure out how to move it from one term s page to the next Deploying the WIC WPP online I have just attended a seminar to gain this skill digital drop box portfolios Digital dropbox electric blackboard tasks generally making a course more appealing to students digital dropbox test polling and survey managers content collection c
133. http www powerschool com think that overall Blackboard is fine when teachers actually use it find it difficult because a lot of faculty don t use it which makes it hard to know when to check it and when not too Blackboard is a great tool that should be further utilized by the entire staff BB is great for online courses but seems less efficient for other classes unless used as a secondary resource to the in class instruction materials Blackboard should be made available to TAs to contact students This term my instructor didnt do so It seems like he she just thought that he controls everything and the TA just have to do what he wants Being able to find my grades online is a great thing but they need to be posted more consitantly Also the organization of the site s appearance could use some help in streamlining and grabbing the attention for the important information the way it is now causes stress and confusion because with all the words it is hard to find the particular link that will lead you to where you want to go If Blackboard is used in moderation and for the right reasons it can be an effective tool but a lot of the time it seems to be more of a hassle than a help It is a good idea but it is flawed and seems clunky feel almost as if it is out dated with how it should be used Too many things you have to click on to get where you want to go There should not be so many links just to get to one thing Personally never
134. icult to use It is not perfect but it ADDS a lot to my classroom and teaching experience do not bring paper to class am able to update homeworks assignments the syllabus at any point It is VERY useful for posting announcments and getting messages out to students Once they know you are serious about using it they will check it regularly It is satisfactory itis very useful for teaching large classes as both a means of communicating outside of the classroom setting and for organizing students scores It meets my needs but don t think it s necessary to stick with Blackboard over an open source system It might be used more if we had some trainingabout its features It seems like a pretty good system Material can be posted for students to see and their grades are readily available for them to see That s about all ask It seems like it could be more user friendly and require less keystrokes and less wait time It serves my purposes It should be easier to change things once discover a piece of information in the posted syllabus or weekly instruction list is incorrect First could not change any of those documents remotely had to be using my computer the one where the file wanted to modify and re attach resided to be able to change things Second because the documents were available as pdf word and html files had to correct three times as many documents as should have had to it is a bit cumbersome It should be
135. ignments and most importantly my grades online was suprised that all instructors wouldn t take advantage of this powerful tool Actually don t know about blackboard system Features and navigability learning how to use it when am teaching general use of blackboard and how to be in contact with teachers the use of drop box Pod Casts have thought that OSU blackboard was valuable when instructors did not live in the area did have trouble with it at first and forgot how to use it when we didn t keep up with the technology some terms All in all did like it Overall features Nothing specific the collect function getting my students to be interactive communication and collaboration with other students don t need it with what am working on right now my communication w in the college that am working in is excellent very prompt and eager to assist have no problelms contacting and getting responses None Q12 Cannot think of any have multiple online book sites that must access If it could access all of them on Blackboard in one place it would make life easier none unknown Not so many gliches in powerpoints and other downloadable documents Sometimes they are impossible to get off the internet 150 The user interface is a little confusing had a hard time finding some of the documents but I eventually found them no While looking at a thread on the discussion board and using the back button
136. ility to add extra credit to the grading system only use the stuff about my grades classes and class announcements don t want all the rest of the junk making it slower to load Having every single class be up on Blackboard Not sure send some automatic message when we have some new informations on blackboard Make it easier to see access interpret grades Don t let it be customizable by the professors because it can become confusing adapting to each professor s blackboard Require teachers to use it for all of thier courses It is pretty good now To improve the controls page flows so as to improve time efficiency More opportunity to have live discussions with other students and the possibility to see the instructor live at least once Make it a requirement for the professors to put their syllabus on line or on blackboard but not as a requirement for students to be able to access the internet Make the teachers better informed about how to use all the options Post all grades faster Make the teachers put all grades up Less categories to put stuff oin Have options so that you can let only the professor e mail you from blackboard and not the entire class For example in a large class people are constantly e mailing the entire class for notes don t want to receive an e mail every time someone misses class and wants notes Maybe a tab for ask your professor which is a direct link to email or something Or ask for hel
137. ime period was 10 4 hours Question 4 Instructors were asked to rate the importance of a number of features related to teaching and learning processes Eighty five percent of the respondents felt that having the ability to post course materials online was either very important or important Question 7c while nearly 80 felt that having the ability to communicate with students as a group and or individually by means other than face to face was very important or important Question 7a The responding instructors felt that the ability of students to communicate with one another outside the classroom Question 7b was either slightly or not at all important 24 0 The ability to post grades and scores online Question 7d and the ability to evaluate what students know understand or have yet to learn Question 7e was rated as very or somewhat important by 6396 and 5996 of the respondents respectively Nearly 9496 of the respondents stated that he she used Blackboard to communicate with students and they plan to continue to do so Question 8 However the largest percent of respondents to Question 9 answered that they had never used Blackboard to assess student knowledge understanding or progress because they are not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose 35 896 When asked about students communicating with one another outside of the classroom 4296 of the respondents use Blackboard to allow students to communicate and plan to continue t
138. imitations for large enrollment courses online testing and assignments Posting coure materials and students communicating with each other 1 How to copy information easily from one course area to another 2 How to get rid of the useless class listings in my personal Blackboard area 1 Evaluating student learning progress 2 Using BB to compose quizzes and exams 1 homework and assessment exercises 1 The grading feature in the Discussion Board 2 The assignment tools such as the Learning Unit Assignment feature etc 3 The variety of tools available for use in creating quizzes and tests 1 Using podcasts 2 How to incorporate guest speakers panels into Ecampus courses Adding adding assessments to BB how to streamline adding content to content manager not the BB portal adding users not enrolled administering evaluation materials Administering exams through blackboard administering quizzes exams administering tests quizzes ensuring students do not cheat digital drop box again no longer at OSU All aspects of Blackboard All aspects All of it haven t used it yet All the functions it can offer Allow students to post their homework and paper online alternatives to Blackboard Anything positive about it so far do not like Blackboard and do not see the need for it besides eliminating paper in my classroom assesment Assessing student learning assessing student learning assessing student learning more c
139. in a timely manner think it is useful to have online access to courses grades syllabus projects etc as an instructor use the Blackboard system extensively and find it very useful in conveying 172 information grades documents announcements etc As mentioned above however there are procedures within the system and items that could be changed that would improve my time effective usage of the system Please feel free to contact me if you would like my thoughts on this issue It is effective way to gain an education degree if you don t live on campus am about an hour drive and it has saved me time and money by not having to commute several times a week However it does take just as much or more time than attending a class on campus overpriced for what it does Blackboard is great for what it does For the size of OSU it would seem that software invented from free ware would be a better option to keep costs down to the students and staff Maybe something designed by and for OSU students and staff think it is useful and use it on a regular basis honestly cannot think of anything at the moment I ve been very happy with Blackboard Not much really like Blackboard and it is generally very helpful enjoy being able to do everything online It works efficiently overall and am satisfied with the current layout Did i mention the user interface is painful to look at and difficult to use Because it needs a ton
140. inded However this is not your fault in any way like that enrolled students have access and the rest of the WWW does not my class notes are my intellectual property and only want to share them with my students like the Blackboard system Access information from previous years is very useful Exchanging of information with students is easy like the idea in principle but it s hard to find time to become an expert at yet one more thing like to put up course content on an external website and link to it through blackboard can make immediate changes in my own course material and we have more flexibility that way so hope that remains an option for us I know there have been efforts to keep the content internal to Blackboard mostly use Blackboard to give students feedback on assignments posting grades and announcements look forward to the next workshop love the grading aspect and the ability to have my course and community aspect is very useful love using the system in staying in contact with my students over the course information loved having blackboard as a tool to use to help increase student involvement in class like how everyone can email each other easily without having to know addresses currently use WebCT and feel that it s email system is seriously lacking All email goes only to the homepage instead of to student email accounts This is a big problem prefer how blackboard sends email to the st
141. indow that appears before can load a new announcement Getting rid of Blackboard and replacing it with an Open Source system We should not be channeling money into a corporate system when we have the capabilities to create and maintain a system that could be just as useful and more easily navigated Grade system is combersome Better if it were more like a spreadsheet grade weighting and point assignment constraints sometimes did not meet my needs by forcing certain elements to be worth a number of points up to 10096 and this caused confusion among my students because my weighting system was not adequately modeled by Blackboard also had a large class 200 with students concurrently enrolled in separate lab courses There needs to be a way to quickly find out which lab a particular student is enrolled in by looking at the full lecture class roster Gradebook showing up all at once Copying of course work working the first time Being able to erase Discussion Board easier to start new term Gradebook speed amp management it is extremely slow for my large classes Adding questions to assessments is burdensome general appearance is not very forward it needs to be able to compete with other more visual websites that do not rely on student s previous knowledge of how to use the site Have and ID column separate on Blackboard grade book Allow multiple column uppload to the gradebook would like to be able to upload an entire spreadsheet at
142. ing of this term only Winter 2008 in which of the following OSU class locations did you enroll Click all that apply Q3 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent OSU Corvallis Campus 604 83 54 604 83 54 OSU Cascades Campus 15 2 07 619 85 62 OSU Extended Campus 94 13 00 713 98 62 Other 10 1 38 123 100 00 62 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q4 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 what percentage of your classes use the OSU blackboard system Q4 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent 100 or all of my classes use OSU Blackboard 234 34 26 234 34 26 51 99 of my classes use OSU Blackboard 247 36 16 481 70 42 50 or about 1 2 of my classes use OSU Blackboard 72 10 54 553 80 97 1 49 of my classes use Blackboard 77 11 27 630 92 24 0 or none of my classes use Blackboard 52 7 61 682 99 85 I am not sure 1 0 15 683 100 00 63 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys Q5 How important if at all are each of the following Blackboard tools for your learning process The FREQ Procedure Q5A a The ability to communicate with instructors by means other than face to face
143. ing the particular term have NO idea have none It works very well for me mostly only the gradebook and can t format it with averages standard deviations etc ran into problems with using the symbol Blackboard failed to download assignments with the symbol in the assignment title or within the title of the individual work submitted think the grade book option could be improved The grade book use does weird things for example when change the grades and come back to it a day or so later notice that it hasn t been changed Even though it was when l initially changed wish could access the gradebook directly from the home page for each course rather than having to go through course tools etc would like the ability to easily place audio and video from my course am running into trouble mainly because of copyright issues but also to a minor degree with logistical issues l d like more flexibility in moving things around i e in the gradebook I m not sure know enough about it to be of any help here tend to use those aspects of things that are useful to me and ignore the rest Nonetheless cannot imagine teaching nowadays apart from this type of resource Improve the discussion interface The discussion boards in the previous version of Blackboard were much better because in the standard view you could view all messages in all threads at once The current version of Blackboard took a big step backward
144. ing this evaluation it is crucial to ask both users and those who choose not to be users to communicate their educational values You have been chosen at random from a list of OSU winter quarter students to participate in this survey In order to ensure the anonymity of respondents the OSU Survey Research Center OSU SRC is administering the survey and will provide analysis of results to the CRC Please know that your responses and comments will remain anonymous and confidential The Survey Research Center takes steps to ensure that anonymity will not be compromised in any way The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete We know that your time is precious and we are grateful for your participation Thank you Virginia M Lesser Director Survey Research Center If you have any questions about the purpose of this survey please contact Jon Dorbolo Associate Director Technology Across the Curriculum Co Chair Computing resources Committee at Jon Dorbolo oregonstate edu If you have technical issues with the survey please reply to this email at src Qoregonstate edu To learn about OSU Blackboard go to http oregonstate edu tac Should you have questions about your rights as a research participant please contact the Oregon State University Institutional Review Board IRB Human Protection Administrator at 541 737 4933 and or by email at IRB 2oregonstate edu and refer to IRB 3877 15 16 Instructor Survey OSU
145. ing towards a Masters in Community Counseling OSU Cascades TCE Psychology and Human Development amp Family Sciences Q3 Other COCC OSU Seafood Lab No Cources PSU and OHSU did not enroll thesis credits only PSU joint campus registration Hatfield Marine Science Center rotation OHSU dissertation Q7A Faster and more detailed grade posting Checking the course materials and mini lectures before the term starts More Organized and efficient use of features especially pertaining to course materials Using the announcements part of blackboard instead of sending emails Please use the calender feature online exam Have all documents open into a new screen so that the documents can be easily changed and rinted Setting up the discussion boards some use more threads and others expect all to post under one thread which can be confusing am not sure Keep current scores online like to see my grades post info where it is suppost to do assignments under assignmnets rather than anounccements Posting graphics that can be viewed by everyone sometimes they are not able to be seen unless extra software is available or the student owns a Mac Discussion board could be a little more user friendly It would be great if you could get an email alert to your ONID account when someone replies or posts a new message commonality in the formating of standard documents such as the syllibus for those taknig multiple courses a gr
146. instructors need to organize their Blackbard materials much more effectively and also need to post materials into Blackboard in a much more timely manner Generally like Blackboard and its functionality GOOD SYSTEM great tool Group pages have been an effective resource for students have never had a problem with blackboard use either myself or students having capability to require students to post before reading the posts also use BB for my research projects and have found it to be an excellent tool am fairly new and have limited need for this tool but was happy to have it and found it fairly easy to use Looking forward to using it more fully in the future am only teaching one term as a substitute for a sabbatical professor who gave me a complete separate website so didn t need Blackboard for much except grades and email It was generally satisfactory for that appreciate giving students 24 hr access to course materials and grades am not inclined to do on line tests because that doesn t fit my teaching style In class daily quizzes initiate conversations on line would not allow that immediate process currently find Blackboard difficult to use and would rather set up my own webpages than use Blackboard again do not use Blackboard to its fullest for two major reasons First the instructor interface is complex and intimidating and second do not perceive that the benefits to be gained by using it outweigh th
147. into a usable document Doesn t really matter what check there is no time grouping students within classes hand outs booklets have graduated from OSU and will not be teaching any more courses have specific questions from time to time and don t know who to ask so they go unanswered For example we had difficulty downloading students assignments in zip files this year so we had to do that one by one It wasn t a problem before listened to Dr Dorobolo once and left teh presentation frustrated and disgusted Other than talk about what he does with it he offered no useful information We had speciffically asked for a practical session in how to use the system only wish had time Is there a book can read My lab classes meet daily for nearly 5 hours we are able to communicate well face to face so blackboard is not currently an interest If were working in another venue would access any or all of the options suggested online documentation small help files for individual blackboard functions online whiteboard where all students can write collaboratively retiring after winter 08 See comments at the end SHORT e mail tips System capabilities user s manual whatever methods allow me time flexibility to do it word of mouth Q15 how to allow students communicate with each other is it possible to have add on capability developed by an instructor 95 Its limitations for web site format design Its l
148. ips tricks and shortcuts To learn how to use some features that am not currently using learn how to include Skype also how to use something like Centra for an online voice discussion Tools for composing scientific content Uploading Grades uploading grades into Registrar s system uploading grades group discussion Use it to assess student learning use of discussion forums using on line testing setting up links to outside resources Use of images and video in snippets Using assessment capabilities and how to monitor if individual students are accessing information from blackboard how often when etc using blackboard for students to turn in assignments digital dropbox have no idea how this works Using Blackboard to access student learning and to set up chat rooms Using Blackboard to administer lab quizzes Using Blackboard to assess student competencies and its utility for student portfolio development Using Blackboard tools to assess student learning using discussion board and using assessment capabilities Using groups and chat rooms using it for assessment Using it for pre and post tests to assess student knowledge and learning utilizing Blackboard for quizzes What each item in the Control Panel means so know better what the full capabilities of Blackboard are What is available beyond posting course materials links to course supplements posting grades and providing easy e mail communication when and i
149. is very useful but perhaps including one window with important dates from all your classes rather than having to look at each one would help students to stay more organized have no suggestions it s fine See question 12 Finding Blackboard Once located on the OSU page it is easy to use Increase ease of navigation allow users to view announcements concurrently with other course sections such as Course Documents No response See above Daily updates from teachers Less links To change the way the grading part of blackboard works Email notifications when Professors update announcements or students reply to my comments in discussion board Make adding users to the system easier so when lead an organization can easily manage all users some way to move between courses without having to click on the courses tab ie have links to the other courses available from another course s site highlight new in areas with new or unread material newly posted by professor better looking user interface its too eh blah for me the profs can alter their pages a bit but still it needs some new spacial arraignment and shapes to it that make it less bureaucratic looing Let students access to course blackboard for a while after semester is over make ALL teachers use blackboard Dont have so many different tabs when in a specific course It makes finding what need a hassle Due to the fact that have to go through each one till find i
150. it s an outstanding way for students to be connected with their fellow students teachers grades course material and anything else they could wish to get from the class online It is an unattractive set up and difficult to navigate It is unclear how to make full use of its services think Blackboard is really good and like how easy it is for me to use Those message boards are annoying Some instructors have required the use of it for communicating with classmates found it to be more of an annoying chore than educational helpful It is a great system that is underused and full of inconsistencies mainly due to instructor error OSU Bb is very effective and easy to use More or less Blackboard is fine in its current form it s confusing teachers hate to use it students hate to use it and no one is happy with it Simplify the format and layout of blackboard and maybe teachers will be more willing to work with it and students will have an easier time using it Blackboard is great never thought could work as well on line as have It is due to the school teachers and Blackboard make sure the teachers know how to use it and do actually use it like that fact that i can look at my grade online and know how i am doing in the class at any point in time and not just finding out what my final grade is at the end of the term This is an outstanding way to take courses for distance learners It s easy to find out how classes are g
151. it separately will save me 3 hrs per assignment A buttton or link that gives online tutorial about using blacboard A way to upload more than one column of grades rather than one column at a time and clicking on upload grades and upload another column Ability for students to post and for instructors to retrieve grade and repost assignmnents and exams ability to import text book test banks that would allow random selection of these questions It would save the students a lot of money because make them purchase the textbook software for homeworks and quizzes Ability to link the total points column with the student name instead of scrolling across the screen while holding my finger to the screen in order to follow the row and connect the name with the points ability to remove prior term classes Ability to run computer models directly from it Ability to upload grades from Blackboard to the Registrar for final grade submission Ability to upload text with embedded images and media content directly without losing format including different fonts and paragraph structures ability to view examples of quality courses to stimulate ideas for use again it currently serves my needs well enough Allow access to student list once they are enrolled and not to wait until a week before class begins Allow more flexibility in gradebook formats Right now I have to keep two one for bb Allow the uploading of data in a fashion similar to the online se
152. it takes you to the beginning of the thread instead of the last entry that you were looking at Allow students to form their own groups One of my classes had a group file exchange and discussion board and this was very beneficial for our group project However don t think we could have set this up on our own If instructors new how to use it better They often don t know how to use a lot of the features Email alerts A summary page that would allow me to see all of my discussion board traffic on a single page and perhaps a calendar that would work to allow me to view assignment due dates that updates with the gradebook Make it easier to email peers none Allow instructors to name their own folders instead of using generic folder names which are sometimes misleading none Increase digital dropbox so student s could see materials as well basically a sharing and editing feature Well it would be nice if there were more user options mean mean know you can change your layout and color and stuff but it would be cool if there was a little bit more configurability Also it would be kind of cool if there was something like maybe an RSS feed that would alert you about changes such as when grades are updated Another thing that would be nice would be a way to differentiate between your labs recitations and lectures for one class when picking from your class list or even better combining them into one so don t have to open all of the
153. junct Instructor 9 No response 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe Var 10 Fmt N1 Col 14 Name Q2_7 J Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor OzNot selected 2 Tenure track Professor 6 Adjunct Instructor 9 No response 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe Var 11 Fmt N1 Col 15 Name Q2_8 K Q2 What are your roles for OSU Check all that apply 1 Tenured Professor 5 eCampus Instructor 2 Tenure track Professor 6 Adyjunct Instructor 3 Research Professor 7 Teaching Assistant 4 Instructor 8 Other Describe 72 0 Not selected 9 No response Var 12 Fmt N2 Col 16 17 Name Q3 L Q3 Thinking about spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 approximately how many total credit hours did you instruct To calculate add the total number of credits per course you taught for the specified time period For example 3 courses with 3 credits each 9 credit hours 0020 29 99 No response Var 13 Fmt N2 Col 18 19 Name Q4A M Total credit hours NOT using OSU Blackboard 99 No response Var 14 Fmt N2 Col 20 21 Name Q4B N Total credit hours using OSU Blackboard 99 No response Var 15 Fmt N2 Col 22 23 Name Q5 O Q5 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 NOT using OSU Blackboard 1 None 5 76 to 100 stu
154. kboard feature set My CS class for example uses a wiki website quite effectively No one would be harmed by an instructor setting up an alternative to blackboard such as Moodle and it would improve teaching effectiveness Organization More organized access to various class material Actually update grades on black board Post the grades earlier Add grades Some instructors have Blackboard but they don t use it as much as they could 138 To actually use it not just have a course listed then not put any information up weekly effective posting of assignments Have them be able to check to see if the files they are putting on are available on the student side Sometimes things don t show up when they think they have Post more announcements updating grades more often Keeping all of the grades updated would be great can always find lecture notes but i can never see what my grade is better training all sections of course NEED to be under one link Some instructors make terrible clutter Some teachers make it so difficult to find things on their blackboard pages would create a simple way for you to link to different portions of the page Or at least have all of my instuctors make APPROPRIATE use of the side bar links Keep the grades updated really don t know The only reasons professors say they don t use it is because they don t like it don t see any problems there so you should ask them none nothing Som
155. kboard since 2005 so can t comment on the most recent version haven t used it since its first version in 1997 8 and wouldn t be abole to give much constructive feedback at this time haven t used the grade book feature because it asks for percentage grades instead of point grades Can this be changed Maybe just don t know how to use it like blackboard and have no specific suggestions remember hearing that it is down before fall term begins which seems to be a problem some students that for reasons do not understand say that they cannot access blackboard which have to set up a different set of materials for them Blackboard needs to be available to all students and user friendly to all teach overseas one term a year During that term don t use Blackboard because the OS numbers are by level 100 200 300 so there is no way to distinguish between 2 300 level courses taught the same term twould be great if the grade weighting system worked the way do grade weighting which have never been able to make work in Blackboard any given work product could have a unique weight from week to week would like the grading program to be more flexable wanted to put up a make up colum so students could see that points were counted but i could not add a colum that affected only certian students would like to make it smaller so i can get as much info on a page as possible like using the blackboard system so students al
156. know which one the instructor is going to use different look allow students to see all grades at once from different classes none Once you have accessed a course page make the left hand column more simple and catered only to areas instructors need During quizzes make time limit more obvious Don t have so much cluter on main page If you had never used it wouldn t know where to find grades etc Easier use of forums with classmates Feature like Valley Library has where instructors have instant messaging during certain hours of the day Make it easier to communicate with other students Well when we go to our individual courses on Blackboard it would be nice if we could see our grades for that class after we select the class Instead at the home page we have to look on the left side of the screen and see a link that says view my grades in blackboard and the we see a list of our classes and our grades for the classes That is nice but the grades should also be available when you select one of your classes and are looking at the course material None have used a couple of other online course systems Blackboard is the easiest system to use Designing it to work with Internet Explorer had issues early in the class using the world s most widely used browser and it not working correctly Something to keep in mind At least put a disclaimer in that states you should use a certain browser want to be able to attach more than one file at a tim
157. l tutorials don t know Easy navigation easy updating setting controls on appearances better functions with grade sorting and entering eliminate it go to open source software Excellent software extremely useful but limited for full web enabled learning 121 Faculty Course designers receive stipends for developing online courses Graduate students generally do not have the time or expertise required to do this within their fte allowance There should be at least one faculty member responsible for developing and maintaining the integrety of online courses Fantastic For lecture sections still prefer to do my class management by paper For e courses Blackboard is very helpful My complain in general is the move to make teaching and learning a sit in front of a computer system believe the best learning is still face to face in person student and teacher interacting and mentoring For my purposes it has been a useful tool for communicating grades to students making announcements and posting notes and study guides It is fairly easy to use Frankly it is unweildy and slow especially when uploading large PowerPoint files From an instructor s point of view it is invaluable From a student s point of view it is becoming almost unmanageable As more and more courses become entirely dependent on Blackboard simply keeping track of quizzes and class note downloads and homework etc becomes a mind boggling endeavor Realizing this
158. lackboard have this huge list of non active courses don t understand why this list does not default to courses to be taught in the next term on going courses and courses taught during the prior term find Blackboard useful for group communication with my students and they re required to use it for one of our assignments Otherwise think that we re impersonalizing our communication with our students badly enough already since all their other classes have them at a 350 1 ratio at least can pride myself on being one instructor that cares enough to communicate with them in conferences face to face find the current system to be cumbersome for large classes It would be nice if you could upload more than one grade book column at a time and it would also be nice if could link different sections of the class instead of having to post everything multiple times find the discussion board format clunky When adding items or modifying there are so many steps to click Yes Yes Yes If Blackboard ran faster wouldn t have to wait especially when post activities into 25 sections at a time The ability to embed videos for our WR 121 Info Lit Portfolio would help More training for undergrads would help Also maybe if the applets loaded faster so that didn t have to wait to start typing find the grade book entry system bulky and difficult to use l d like to have the ability to enter grades use the return key to move to the next studen
159. list of classes that you re enrolled in should be on the left hand navigation not just on the home screen This will make it easier to switch between classes while viewing the course materials on another etc Require teachers to take a course in how to use it efficiently Less options more organization Blackboard itself seems decent as is it just needs to be put into more use by some instructors It would be nice if the video for online courses could be incorporated into Blackboard make it less cluttered when you log on More simplified design not various sub sub menus buried under main menus Decrease the chance of getting locked out of quizzes and exams This has happened twice to me quite frustrating open posted documents in a new window Make sure instructors are using it and make it their first line of communication with us check Blackboard every day so it is annoying if they send out an email saying something they could have posted in the announcements section classes olny need to be listed once This is pretty petty but calling it Blackboard makes it seem sort of archaic The slowness and lack of a nice looking interface make it a pain to use for test taking or discussion board assignments more access to online libraries especially important for those doing extended campus classes and who live out of state Nothing blackboard works well Library and online articles are VERY hard to access Have the grades tab easie
160. look up until I m done and then see have entered nothing Wow that really needs fixing Happens just about everyday that I use the system Streamline it as much as possible Sometimes there are multiple screens to say OK to before you are finally finished with an operation Streamline the navigation structure or make it more customizable or give instructions on how to customize the structure more prominent Strengthen incoming student skills for using blackboard Student Support for online quizzes Blackboard kicks students out of the quizzes frequently 110 and this takes a lot of instructor time and frustrates students MAY NOT HAVE THE PATIENCE OR TIME TO USE ONLINE QUIZZES IN THE FUTURE IF THIS IS NOT REMEDIED do not think this is a student error problem its a problem with the Blackboqrd system Students seem to have issues with being able to access Blackboard from some computers or dial up home services Is there some way to package the program to reduce Blackboard hang up s Submitting grades adding documents etc is rather unwieldy at times too much navigating and clicking required Suits my current purposes The ability for a letter grade to be automatically figured from the total points the ability to connect student names left side with columns right side that don t show on the screen i e need to scroll The ability to limit what courses are displayed on My Courses page The ability to sort withi
161. m just to find my class Another thing is can we get a more intuitive layout mean lets see some Web 2 0 or something This is a college make the ECE students do it Loading times can sometimes be very long and some files stop loading and refuse to open cant think of any haven t been using blackboard as much this quarter So currently don t have any thoughts Some how make it more accesible for online students to open up student service page from blackboard perhaps making it one username one password accessed on one site the same can go for library services it is hard to keep up with all of the passwords and usernames understand confidentiality plays a huge part in this perhaps this suggestion can help in some way Also when a student is replying to the post of another student it would be nice if the student replying could see the name of the person they are replying to unless of course it is an anonymous post It would be nice to be able to click on another students name in the roster and see their webpage and a link to send an email Training for greater use of announcements Additional course materials More Word features in message field make it a little more user friendly for first time users Highly encourage all teachers to put their lectures on Blackboard unless it is impossible due to format Have an RSS feed to allow students to know when new information has been posted to the sites make a more efficient sc
162. mong the educational community Your teaching and learning conditions are a unique part of that diversity Every instructor who taught a course anytime between spring quarter 2007 and winter quarter 2008 will receive an invitation from the OSU Survey Research Center to participate in the on line survey Your invitation will arrive by e mail and include a password and link The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete Your voice matters and we encourage you to respond candidly so that meaningful information will result Your responses and comments will remain anonymous and confidential The information will be exclusively gathered and analyzed by the Survey Research Center Thank you in advance for your participation We know that your time is precious Jon Dorbolo Co Chair Computer Resources Committee Kathy Howell Co Chair Computer Resources Committee 1 OSU Blackboard is an enterprise wide online learning resources management system that is available to all OSU instructors and students at http my oregonstate edu This system provides a web interface and tool set by which instructors may provide information and activities to students You may learn more about OSU Blackboard at http oregonstate edu tac 1 Instructor 1 linked email Dear OSU Faculty Member One or two days ago you should have received an email from Faculty Senate Computing Resources Committee CRC Co Chairs Jon Dorbolo and Kathy Howell that int
163. mportant or important Question 5c while 90 felt having online access to the course grades and scores was very important or important Question 5d Seventy six percent of the respondents felt that the ability to communicate with instructors by means other than face to face was very important or important Question 5a while 45 said the ability to communicate with other students by means other than face to face was very important or important Question 5b Students were asked to evaluate the effectiveness of various OSU Blackboard features Question 6 The most effective feature was access to course materials followed by access to grades and scores which was rated as very effective by 52 and 45 of the respondents respectively The feature that had the lowest effectiveness rating not at all effective was communication with other students which was selected by 14 of the respondents Question 6b Seventy percent of students felt that the instructors use OSU Blackboard effectively in 51 to 10096 of their classes Question 7 Sixty one percent of the respondents stated that instructors who used Blackboard did not ask for feedback regarding their use of Blackboard Question 8 Eighty five percent of the students rated their own ability to use Blackboard effectively Question 9 When asked about methods to learn more about Blackboard the largest percent 26 696 answered that they did not want instruction about Blackboard Question 10 H
164. my blackboard courses A physical hand out of what each link does i don t read any of the announcements on the front page i know that they are sometimes there but i don t read them and in general i don t look at any of the information on the front page after signing in i just click on the course i need to access so maybe cleaning up some of 156 the clutter on that page make it a little bit more streamlined so that any new important information stands out more The interface is really impersonal and rough to work with i kinda get lost in it all again make it all or nothing its annoying when one prof uses bb but just to post grades and nothing else or vice versa make the links on the left hand side have a more clear description of what they are used for not sure it seems like a good system right now none Better navigation and automatically notification when instructors post announcement on Blackboard make it faster and more reliable Make the layout more appealing to the eye There are two many links all over the place and it s rather bland as a whole n a make it more personnalisable not such stringent sections teachers may want to define their own sections If there is not already would like to see an e mail type thing where you cant communicate back and fourth with the instructor without clogging up your actual inbox If this does exist would like to see it utilized Reformatting the layout of the pages Right
165. n learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe OzNot selected 9 No response Var 35 Fmt N1 Col 44 Name Q14 7 AD Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe 0 Not selected 9 No response Var 36 Fmt N1 Col 45 Name Q14_8 AJ Q14 By which of the following methods are you interested in learning about OSU Blackboard tools and techniques Check all that apply 1 Face to face workshops 2 One on one consultation 3 Online tutorials 4 Email consultation 5 Telephone consultation 6 Working with other instructors 8 No thank you I don t want instruction about Blackboard 7 Other Describe OzNot selected 9 No response Var 37 Fmt A750 Col 46 795 Name Q15 AK Q15 What aspects of OSU Blackboard would you like to learn more about Var 38 Fmt A500 Col 796 1295 Name Q16 AL Q16 What changes do you suggest that could potentiall
166. n the digital dropbox Faster performance with gradebook The ability to format online quizzes using tables The blackboard site is not very condusive to a constructivist learning environment The discussion board needs to allow the outline of all the threads as in the previous BB version My students commented on how much more difficult it was to use the recent version and that they needed to know who had not been responded to in a more global way The fact that the names of the students are alphabetized by first name in the Discussion Board tool makes it very difficult to use when posting grades especially with large classes The front page needs to be cleaned up a bit and made less cluttered The gradebook is HORRIBLE and not user friendly Overall not just with respect to gradebook the interface is cumbersome and takes too much time to access and post items will not use the test quiz function again because it is simply too time consuming to create tests quizzes The Calendar system could be simplified Overall too cumbersome needs streamlining If wanted to be the kind of teacher that creates materials once and uses them for years and years this would be ok Not me The help system is very poor could use a major overhaul The user interface for instructors is not intuitive Possibly this could be improved The user interface should be more user friendly For example as an instructor should have a specific tools page to upload file
167. nagement 78 Regional Studies 79 Resource Economics 80 Resource Geography and Rural Planning 81 Russian 82 Sociology 83 Soil Science 84 Spanish 85 Sports Injury Care 86 Statistics 87 Telemedia 88 Theatre Arts 89 Turf and Landscape Management 90 Visual Arts 91 Women Studies 92 Writing 93 Zoology 94 Other More than one major 95 Biology 96 Chemical Engineering 97 Electrical and Computer Engineering 98 Civil Engineering 99 Construction Engineering Management 100 Computer Engineering 101 Engineering Physics 102 Industrial Engineering 103 Mechanical Engineering 104 Liberal Studies 105 Human Development and Family Sciences 106 Interior Design 107 Housing Studies 108 Public Health Var 4 109 Biochemistry and Biophysics 110z Veterinary Medicine 111 Education 112 General Science 113 Wood Science and Technology 114 Wood Science 115 Public Policy 116 Forest Engineering 117 Forest Science 118 Forest Operations Management 119 Forest Engineering 120 Adult Education 121 Geography 122 Geographic Information Science 123 College Student Services Administration Fmt A150 Col 256 405 Name Q2Other D If you could not find your major in the drop down list above or have a dual major please type your response here Fmt N1 Col 406 Name Q3_1 E Q3 Thinking of this term only Winter 2008 in which of the following OSU class locations did you enroll Click all that apply 1 OSU Corvallis Campus 4 Other
168. nd or have yet to learn so that you may plan appropriate activities for class meetings activities Q7E Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 44 6 96 44 6 96 Very Important 212 33 54 256 40 51 Important 162 25 63 418 66 14 Somewhat Important 87 13 77 505 79 91 Slightly Important 53 8 39 558 88 29 Not at all Important 69 10 92 627 99 21 No response Frequency Missing 207 5 0 79 632 100 00 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q8 Please read the following statements and choose the one that best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to communicate with students Q8 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent I use OSU Blackboard to communicate with students and plan to continue to do so AT 93 71 477 93 71 I have used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students in the past but do not plan to do so again 1 18 483 94 89 I have never used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs 484 95 09 I have never used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students because I am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose 488 95 87 Other De
169. nd techniques Circle all that apply ONOaRWD Face to face workshops One on one consultation Online tutorials Email consultation Telephone consultation Working with other instructors Other Describe No thank you don t want instruction about Blackboard If you do not want instruction about Blackboard please skip now to Question 16 Q15 What aspects of OSU Blackboard would you like to learn more about Q16 What changes do you suggest that could potentially improve the OSU Blackboard system Q17 If you could make only one suggestion on how to improve the Blackboard system what would it be Q18 What else would you like to say about OSU Blackboard or about your needs for a course management system in general 20 21 Student Survey Welcome to the OSU Blackboard Tools Evaluation Survey Thank you for choosing to participate in this important survey about OSU Blackboard Because we know that users of OSU Blackboard have much to say about the quality of Blackboard as a classroom tool we have included several questions at the end of the survey where you will have an opportunity to comment openly about your views and experiences with OSU Blackboard To begin please enter the 4 digit PIN number assigned to you You can find your PIN number in the email you received about this survey Q1 What is your current class standing Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Masters Doctorate Other Describe
170. ne of the grades that was AUTOMATICALLY UPLOADED from Blackboard was wrong last spring It showed up as an A on the grading book in blackboard but it uploaded as an A Strange An online system is absolutely manditory be it blackboard or another system BB is a good system Blackboard definitely enhances my practice as a teacher and opens up more avenues for success for my students very much appreciate being able to use it Blackboard generally works very well for an on line class but opening materials for the students is not always intuitive Blackboard is an enormously useful tool and a far better product than WebCT Blackboard is central to my teaching Thank you Blackboard is flexible enough to allow me to do what want on the web Support folks have been very helpful Blackboard is much worse than Frontpage would rather use a webpage developer like Frontpage or other main system Blackboard is one of the newer technological improvements that helps neither students or instructors Blackboard is painfully slow at times Blackboard is very cumbersome to use gave up giving quizzes on BB to my enormous 71000 freshman class because a large number of students would screw up and lock themselves out had to reset those locks 1 at a time it was impossible Blackboard is very useful and it makes teaching and grading easier It makes it easy for me to post assignments create assignments on blackboard and stay current on my gr
171. ne uses Removing extraneous links that seem to be the default for each Blackboard listed class They only serve to confuse me and have never led to anywhere useful Some of my teachers don t post grades on blackboard and it would be nice if they did so we know where we stand in the class would like them to post more under the announcements section find it very effective All use the online grade posting method Make it easier to load media Better organization of teaching materials updated grades More up to date grading and using the entire system not just using it to post a syllabus and making us wait for our grades There should be a rolling screen that shows all updates to each students Blackboard account New postings new grades new discussion topics should be easier to find They should all post grades on Blackboard Teachers when using the BB system do not consistently put all of the class information or update things according to where we are at in the terms more notifications of class assignments and due dates Grades being put up effectively Just that wish ALL my instructors used it in general They could use it more some teachers used it for nothing but to post assignments it would have been nice to see more up there Make it a requirement for all teachers to use it don t know ask the instructors they probably have a better idea of what makes the system easier or more difficult to use that facto
172. nges do you suggest that could potentially improve the OSU Blackboard system Var 35 Fmt A750 Col 3181 3930 Name Q13 AI Q13 If you could make only one suggestion on how to improve the Blackboard system what would it be Var 36 Fmt A750 Col 3931 4680 Name Q14 AJ Q14 What else would you like to say about OSU Blackboard or about your needs for a course management system in general 89 90 Appendix E 1 Instructor Comments Q1 Other AAIP Academic Affairs Naval Science Academic Learning Services ALS ALS anthropology Developmental Math E Campus eli English Language Institute EOP exclusively E campus Extension teaching International Programs math Mathematics Military Science Military Science Naval Science Univ Honors College Q2 Other Academic Affairs Administrator Administrator administrator Adminstrator non faculty rank adviser Advisor Assistant Professor Chair Clinical Professor courtesy asst professor Courtesy Faculty Courtesy Faculty courtesy faculty courtesy faculty courtesy faculty courtesy Prof Appt Coutesy Faculty Department Chair Dept Head Emeritus 1039 emeritus professor Emeritus Professor Extension Specialist Satff Chair Faculty Research Associate formely Graduate TA GRA Graduate Student Graduate Student GTA half time professor 91 librarian Officially a TA but I m the instructor for 2 courses because of previous experience and educati
173. nything I m not uncomfortable with any aspect of the program wish the instructors would take advantage of more of its features actually understand the system and use it effectively don t think have nothing to learn but get what need from it already 147 printing items listed on the board Not sure I m O K at moment Modifying postings after submission am pretty sure that there are aspects of blackboard that don t even know are available let alone how to use them Online tutorials that show all aspects of the program would be helpful to me am pretty comfortable with Blackboard If can access any information once the course is completed How to retract postings or modify if there are other interesting information provided other than what know now online course catalog am content would like to help train others None Posting threads Not sure Collaboration tools like file sharing services calendar File sharing with other students basics No particular desire to learn anything in particular just like it to be easy and fairly intuitive to use How the class emails work are there any tools on blackboard that would help my learning besides the information provided by proffessors would like to point out that my freshman year here not once did an instructor show me what black board was or how to use it They ALL assumed I knew and assumed was the only lost person in class and wa
174. o do so while 30 796 have never used blackboard to allow students to communicate because they are not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose Question 10 Nearly 9596 of the respondents felt that students were either very effective effective or somewhat effective in making use of Blackboard Question 11 Respondents stated that they asked for feedback from students on their uses of Blackboard very little 33 896 followed with a moderate extent 32 0 Question 12 The choice most frequently selected by respondents to learn about Blackboard tools and techniques was online tutorials 21 2 followed by face to face workshops 19 3 Question 14 Student Results Seventy three percent of the responses were obtained from undergraduate students Question 1 The major courses of study for these responses covered just under 100 different majors Question 2 Eighty three percent of the respondents were enrolled in OSU Corvallis campus locations while 13 were enrolled in OSU Extended Campus Question 3 Just over 70 of the respondents stated that over 50 of their classes use OSU Blackboard Question 4 Figure 1 Figure 1 Percentage of Classes Using the OSU Blackboard System 100 51 99 M50 81 4996 E0 8 11 36 Students were asked about the level of importance of certain Blackboard tools Ninety two percent of the respondents felt that having online access to course materials was either very i
175. o use by allowing them to upload spreadsheets instead of tediously entering numbers one at a time either use it or don t it gets confusing when teachers put stuff on there that they don t tell you about in class Make it mandatory that all teachers use blackboard See above Again allowing professors to view the student side so they could make sure the information they placed is truly up and running properly see Q 12 More organization and updates FASTER PRINTING Make it look more up to date and user friendly The interface looks old and boring Take off last names on the discussion boards would bedazzle the website with many colors and logos thus making it more appealing to the eye Find a way to fix the amount of times that it crashes does not work Require teachers to enter grades into blackboard during the term As mentioned above Sending out email notifications when there is an update in the system None More grade related tools in the grades section such as a way to easily calculate GPA based on all classes currently being taken Deja vu Mandatory rudimentary Blackboard pages for all Ok a different suggestion would be adding although there might be one already and I m simply unaware of it a calendar daily planner where you could add assignments and tests perhaps even by hyperlinks through actual class pages and your main page would alert you to upcoming things that you need to do It would also be cool if you
176. of difficulty relevance creativity etc to help other faculty choose among a large list of potential problems Should be very simple for faculty to use to encourage widest possible 113 participation Connecting e mail directly to discussion board so you can respond individually to a student without having to open extra windows Continued from above It would also be nice when we move our info from term to term that all the settings would stay exactly the same Also created timed tests but they were word documents which graded by typing comments on the quiz It would be nice after grade the quiz for it would go back to the gradebook like homework does want to time to students so used the test feature rather than the homework feature Currently it annoys me that can t go between my classes without getting back to the beginning Or maybe I just don t know how to do it do not hold students responsible for electronic failures Don t have a constant flow of new steps There seems to be a continuous learning curve don t install system updates the weekend before fall quarter starts Don t know l ve never used Blackboard Don t show a list of 30 40 courses not being taught each time you go into Blackboard Don t tie it directly to Banner so that instructors can add assistants etc downloading class list like the online system When an announcement is posted a notification email should be sent to the students automatically The
177. of improvements Most of the time when there are problems with using Blackboard it s because of the teacher s lack of knowledge about how to use the system once had a teacher in an online class who belittled one of his students and then when others complained deleted the evidence hope that this sort of thing can be looked into by system administrators Blackboard is a valuable resource for students but some instructors refuse to use the system I feel like this takes away a potentially powerful learning tool It s a good system that needs some personal tweaking It also needs more teachers to use it so that students can find what they need all in one location think it s fine like how it gives you your score the total score you could have gotten and the class average Blackboard is a very important resource and think it doesn t need to be changed Blackboard has too many features Having a simple webpage with Announcements Course Documents and My Grades would be more helpful The overabundance of features makes it difficult to find the useful ones really think Blackboard is a good idea but it s trying to be too many things at once nothing Again advocate stopping use of Blackboard entirely There are free open source alternatives such as Moodle that will serve our needs better Open source also offers an opportunity for us to change the software to suit our needs and we already have such expertise on campus at the open
178. of its functions capability of simultaneously uploading multiple files into the course documents section Now it must be done one at a time chat system it is confusing ability to use testbanks from the textbook and random selection of those questions Defaults are sometime set and forgotten but show up in unexpected moments Does the grading scale letter grades align correctly with the standard OSU grading scale including grades dON T HAVE ALL CLASSES EVER TAUGHT OR TO BE TAUGHT AUTOMATICALLY POP UP ON MY HOME SCREEN don t know Don t know l ve never used Blackboard download from excel into blackboard Drawbacks of blackboard when students withdraw my excel spreadsheet has to be adapted before can upload grades this takes time it would be nice if we could upload info from our original list and id numbers would be matched so as not to worry if my list contains more than the blackboard list Also within the announcement page it would be nice to be able to use boldface or different fonts etc Easier gradebook ability to not show thesis courses and other blanket numbered courses on front page every time I log in Easier rollover of course content Easier to navigate Easier way to include extra credit which is added to final student score but not added to total number of points for course for computation so use Excel to compute final grades Easier to understand interface maybe the ability to design our own b
179. oing and communicate with other students i like blackboard It would be cool if it supported podcast nothing do not use all the feature on the system but the ones do use work nicely There were issues in the last class where they changed how the timer on exams worked and this caused all kinds of problems with Internet Explorer Don t make changes like that in the middle of a class wait until the break between classes so the bugs can be worked out without causing problems in the exams IT S THE BEST WAY I VE USED TO GET COURSE MATERIALS OUT TO EVERYONE Get rid of proctored exams Can be very inconvienient think its a great tool what use is at least great don t know what would do without Blackboard can remember high school when either we had to ask a teacher about what our grade was at the time or we got monthly report cards Blackboard helps me determine my grades and speak with my professors efficiently It is a very easy system to navigate through never had any access problems and the instructors appeared to be able to utilize it to it s full potential loved it OSU Blackboard is very effective for me work fulltime and this system enables me to take these classes It is very easy to navigate and provides an immense amount of information all in one spot nothing i like the announcement section always helpful think Blackboard works well It s a great way for teachers to post things that students need and if
180. ok would like to learn more about initiating and managing discussing boards and forums would like to learn more about software compatibility have had several issues related to students using different software and having to have them either change the settings if possible or cut and paste text Either way it is time consuming and sometimes frustrating This is really only related to the dropbox would like to see example of how other instructors those who are highly rated by students use Blackboard so that can adopt any best practices that may not be aware of If there is a way to enter the grades all at one time rather than individually Right now it is cumbersome to have to add one grade at a time and to need to go through multiple steps Including dimensions such as video and additional online resources to my blackboard site Inputing grades into it Interaction between students Online use of tutorial materials Is ELI still different from OSU use It would be great to see how other instructors are using Blackboard in their courses It s capabilities and how to use them It s more of matter of just taking the time to figure it out With ESL students face to face instruction guidance and couseling is really the way to go Low level students are frequently not computer literate enough to make virual classroom interaction effective Students need to have adequate reading and writing skills first Keeping my own Web site
181. ompleted Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q3 Thinking about spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 approximately how many total credit hours did you instruct To calculate add the total number of credits per course you taught for the specified time period For example 3 courses with Cumulative Cumulative Q3 Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 9 1 40 9 1 40 1 11 1 72 20 3 12 2 18 2 81 38 5 93 3 69 10 76 107 16 69 4 44 6 86 151 23 56 5 15 2 34 166 25 90 6 56 8 74 222 34 63 7 26 4 06 248 38 69 8 30 4 68 278 43 37 9 47 7 33 325 50 70 10 16 2 50 341 53 20 11 20 3 12 361 56 32 12 50 7 80 411 64 12 13 9 1 40 420 65 52 14 12 1 87 432 67 39 15 32 4 99 464 72 30 16 21 3 28 485 75 66 17 5 0 78 490 76 44 18 25 3 90 515 80 34 19 3 0 47 518 80 81 20 13 2 03 531 82 84 21 18 2 81 549 85 65 22 2 0 31 551 85 96 23 2 0 31 553 86 27 24 17 2 65 570 88 92 25 3 0 47 573 89 39 34 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q3 Thinking about spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 approximately how many total credit hours did you instruct To calculate add the total number of credits per course you taught for the specified time period For example 3 courses with Q3 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent
182. on PAC Program Director post doc Professional faculty Professional Faculty Professional Faculty Professional Faculty Director Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus Program Director Program Director Program Director Research Assistant Research Associate Research Associate Senior Faculty Research Assistant senior FRA tutor Undergraduate Student Visiting Assistant Professor Q8Other Creating an email group is more effective for me have other communication media communicate by posting announcements do not use the communciation device communicate with students by talking to them don t need Blaskboard for that interface have never used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students because other means meet my needs have used it but no longer teach therefore won t use it because don t need to would continue to use it if were to continue to teach have used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students and may do so again i post lecture notes use email use OSU Blackboard to communicate with students and don t know if want to use it yet It depends on the class teach use other means My TAs have done this as am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose and it is a black hole trying to get a the necessary permissions The only time use Blackboard is when I m forced to by Ecampus why 92 Q9Other Again assess students through personal int
183. on the page More flexibility in organizing gradesheets Less esoteric terminology technobabble in explanations of Blackbaord more information about the grade book More on line instruction available with suggestions about implementing all the various features More sophisticated grade posting system more training for students in utilizing Blackboard know that in my undergrad classes there were several students who had never used it before taking my class and really didn t have time in class to do a tutorial More up front assistance feedback on which components do not work well More user friendly it feel complicated especially for instructors and I m accustomed to working with computer programs My courses are math and equation intensive The equation editor is better than it was but still hard to use and very quirky Students complain about it all the time It may be the result of students having different version levels of Java on their PC Need to standardize this if it is the problem Impress on the students at the start of a term that they should have such and such a version of Java on their machine for effective use of Blackboard My response here will be the same for the next two questions find BB cumbersome to use Too much clicking to enter into and back out of each action This seems especially true for the grade book functions but need to know more about those can easily use Excel for all of that kind of work h
184. one time instead of culumn by column am not quite sure because my knowledge of blackboard is still limited so would love the opportunity to participate in a workshop to learn about the features of blackboard use it basically to post grades assignments and open up the discussion board for students would like to know if there are other features with Blackboard to facilitate learning am often setting up blacboard in the evening or weekends would love to be able to just go look at the way other instructors have set up their class and are having students use it would like to have you solicit sample class blackboards to review and then make some that are done well availbable for use to see am VERY frustrated with blackboard s gradebook it is cumbersome and not at all flexible have done my grades in a spreadsheet for years and am forced to upload stuff because can t get the gradebook to do what typically do in a spreadsheet Next term will fight through getting an alternate ID from 130 students so that can post my excel spreadsheet on blackboard with student scores grades that will be easier than fighting with gradebook am very happy with it now cannot think of any right now can t figure out how to move individual folders from one class to another 105 don t know enough about the system to suggest anything at this time don t know how to delete or hide all the courses I ve taught so when open B
185. onmental Sciences 13 1 90 174 25 48 Exercise and Sport Science 16 2 34 190 27 82 Fermentation Science 3 0 44 193 28 26 Fisheries and Wildlife 13 1 90 206 30 16 Food Science 4 0 59 210 30 75 Food Systems Management 1 0 15 211 30 89 Forest Management 6 0 88 217 31 77 Forest Products 3 0 44 220 32 21 Recreation Resource Management 3 0 44 223 32 65 57 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q2 In which program is your major course of study If you have a dual major or cannot find your major in the list provided please check Other at the end of the drop down list and type your response in the box below Cumulative Cumulative Q2 Frequency Percent Frequency Percent French 2 0 29 225 32 94 Geology B 0 44 228 33 38 German 2 0 29 230 33 67 Health Management Policy 2 0 29 232 33 97 History 9 1 32 241 35 29 Horticulture 3 0 44 244 35 12 Mathematical Sciences 3 0 44 247 36 16 Mathematics 5 0 73 252 36 90 Merchandising Management 9 1 32 261 38 21 Microbiology 6 0 88 267 39 09 Music 3 0 44 270 39 53 Natural Resource and Environmental Law and Policy 1 0 15 271 39 68 Natural Resources 17 2 49 288 42 17 New Media Communication 3 0 44 291 42 61 Nuclear Engineering 6 0 88 297 43 48 Nutrition 11 1 61 308 45 10 Oceanography 3 0 44 311 45 53 Outdoor Recreation Leadershi
186. op applications such as Word 107 Make it easier to translate simple word processing formatting into html text for better appearance of online coursework units and syllabus Make it easier to understand and use Make it faster Get rid of the verification screen Thaw Systems or something to that effect it really slows down the process of uploading documents Make it faster It has gotten extremely slow It is painful to use because the wait times are so long This is most obvious in the gradebook In addition the methodology for being able to put things in is primitive at best My grade book is all crapped up with practice tests that come with the course cartridge cannot get them out of the gradebook without deleting the practice quizzes lt is very confusing for the students Make it less clunky ie think abut how many clicks it takes to get a certain action done Also PLEASE try to get it so that the cursor stays in text fields while the page loads It often deactivates a field so that you are typing away and nothing happens Make it less clunky when copying or transferring information from one area to another Make it less cumbersome to move from place to place make surveys quizzes less cumbersome to create allow the use of IPA fonts I teach linguistics language online and IPA is an essential part of the course Make it more reliable It tends to crash or be down for maintenance far too frequently Make it possible to mirror a
187. order to ensure the anonymity of respondents the OSU Survey Research Center OSU SRO is administering the survey and will provide analysis of results to the CRC The survey can be found online at http www stat oregonstate edu Blackboard Instructors Once there you will need a PIN number to access the survey Your personal PIN number is XXXX We have enclosed a hard copy of the survey in case you prefer to complete the survey in this format Please know that your responses and comments will remain anonymous and confidential The Survey Research Center takes steps to ensure that anonymity will not be compromised in any way The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete We know that your time is precious and we are grateful for your participation Thank you Virginia Lesser Virginia M Lesser Director Survey Research Center If you have any questions about the purpose of this survey please contact Jon Dorbolo Associate Director Technology Across the Curriculum Co Chair Computing resources Committee at Jon Dorbolo oregonstate edu If you have technical issues with the survey please reply to this email at src oregonstate edu Should you have questions about your rights as a research participant please contact the Oregon State University Institutional Review Board IRB Human Protection Administrator at 541 737 4933 or by email at RB oregonstate edu 10 11 APPENDIX A 2 STUDENT PRENOTIFICATION EMAIL
188. ore user friendly to large classes Make the instructor interface more intuitive and obvious Make the instructor interface more natural to use Make the software more user friendly by eliminating some of the OK prompts Make the uploading of grades from Excel master rosters easier More choices More flexibility in the grading system ability to include best 9 of 10 or even best 5 of 10 scores if appropriate more interactive tools More interactive i e more options that can choose from More on line instruction available More sophisticated grade posting system More tools to help students use blackboard in more ways For instance record keeping for students like keeping track of what assignments they have done and how many they haven t n a N A 116 n a NA na NA na Navigation No comment No suggestion No suggestions No suggestions at this time none none none none none None none none none None but have had only limited use not sure not sure Nothing leaps to mind One suggestion is to set the quota limits to higher than 1 GB One time couldn t get course copy to work and had to retype everything but that has only happened once and otherwise have no suggestions Online tutorial Orientation for STUDENTS on how to use Blackboard effectively Please learn from the tools of the read write web make it easy for me to create update share and otherwise work with my content and
189. ourse portfolios recycling importing exporting and archiving the course Discussion board Course statistics discussion board management automatic grading and exam delivery access Discussion Boards discussion forums external links eg to video quiz and exam design and administration discussion groups amp grade book distance learning applications don t know don t know enough to know don t have time at present to find out editing text lectures Effective assessments group projects Effective use of Blackboard as a teaching tool beyond posting announcements lecture notes reading materials and assignments Evaluating and assessing student understanding with Blackboard Suggestions for using discussion boards in mathematics evaluating students learning Evaluation of student learning everything Everything don t use so know whether want to use it e g student to student commication Everything don t have a clue as to how to use it examinations exams amp quizzes self assessment tools For future courses would like to be able to use online exam tools and also be able to better organize the materials that post fostering rapid communication between instructor and students and among students General when have time general use and abilities how different than Web for advisors Employee on line services Bannner Datawarehouse etc and or sending electronic files to class list serves need established
190. owever of the learning options selected by students 16 796 favored online tutorials while 12 596 favored learning from their instructors APPENDIX A 1 INSTRUCTOR PRENOTIFICATION EMAIL MESSAGE FOLLOW UP LETTER AND HARD COPY OF PAPER QUESTIONNAIRE Instructor prenotification email Dear OSU faculty and instructors Within the next week the Survey Research Center SRC will conduct a survey to gather feedback concerning the OSU Blackboard system 1 This survey is part of a review initiated by the Faculty Senate Computing Resources Committee CRC and carried out in cooperation with OSU Information Services The primary purpose of the Blackboard Review is to identify aspects of the Blackboard system and related infrastructure that may be improved to better serve the OSU educational community This survey is a crucial part of the review because it solicits feedback directly from the user population of the tools It is important to gather feedback from instructors who use Blackboard to any extent from instructors who choose not to use Blackboard and also from instructors who have never considered or tried using Blackboard Whatever your experience with Blackboard may be even if none at all we need to hear from you via this survey Instructors who use Blackboard do so in a variety of ways and levels of involvement It is important for the University to assess the suitability and value of the tool set to reflect the diversity of conditions a
191. p in case people do have questions Have let teachers post dates of when the assignemnt should be graded so we don t have to keep checking 10 times a day to see if a grade is posted Run more efficiently when a lot of students are logged on The only real thing that needs to be changed about blackboard is its User INterface The way its set up now everything blends together and its difficult to find things if you dont already know exactly where to look for them Menu access to all classes from every page so you don t have to navigate back to the home page Have it customizable for the teachers I m not sure of the status of this at the moment but it 164 would be beneficial to the students to be able to find everything the teacher wants them to without searching every section Almost nobody uses most of the communication tools More forward directions Maybe that PDF files can load faster its fine how it is Can t think of anything Stop using Blackboard and have teachers use websites like the College of Engineering Ability to add multiple users to a group at once none Stop using it Paying money for expensive proprietary software when there are better free open source systems available For example Moodle is a waste of student resources Any current investment is a poor reason to continue using the system as alternatives are cheap to switch to Works great Get more teachers on board which may mean making it easier for them t
192. p and Tourism 1 0 15 312 45 68 Pharmacy 28 4 10 340 49 78 Philosophy 1 0 15 341 49 93 Physics 2 0 29 343 50 22 Political Science 9 1 32 352 51 54 Psychology 15 2 20 367 53 73 Public Health Promotion and Health Behavior 6 0 88 373 54 61 Radiation Health Physics 5 0 73 378 55 34 Rangeland Ecology and Management 1 0 15 379 55 49 Regional Studies 1 0 15 380 55 64 58 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Student Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q2 In which program is your major course of study If you have a dual major or cannot find your major in the list provided please check Other at the end of the drop down list and type your response in the box below Cumulative Cumulative Q2 Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Sociology 6 0 88 386 56 52 Soil Science B 0 44 389 56 95 Spanish 4 0 59 393 57 54 Statistics 2 0 29 395 57 83 Theatre Arts 1 0 15 396 57 98 Visual Arts 4 0 59 400 58 57 Women Studies 1 0 15 401 58 71 Zoology 6 0 88 407 59 59 Other More than one major 98 14 35 505 73 94 Biology 10 1 46 515 75 40 Chemical Engineering 12 1 76 527 77 16 Electrical and Computer Engineering 22 3 227 549 80 38 Civil Engineering 24 3 51 573 83 89 Construction Engineering Management 5 0 73 578 84 63 Computer Engineering 4 0 59 582 85 21 Engineering Physics 2 0 29 584 85 51 Industrial Engineering 6 0 88 5
193. problems Make every teacher use it make it mandatory for all teachers to use DON T ALLOW INSTRUCTORS TO POST THE SAME CLASS WITH ONE SPELLING ERROR would make Blackboard system available for every course However because courses taken on campus are not online classes then perhaps it may prove to be too much work for an instructor to also devise their live courses online Anything adding to a bureaucratic system does not sound appealing to me Instructors ALREADY cut students short in final s week Sometimes there hardly seems adequate time for students to realistically get things accomplished based on unreasonable time constraints realize instructors want to get on with their term breaks but students get short changed in the end Make it compatable with excel would have to say by making it visually customizeable by color have a link directly to grades Get rid of it and replace it with an open source system Blackboard is buggy slow and 167 obnoxious and I d rather never have to use it if possible Make it faster New color scheme let you see your grades on assignment from previous terms simplify the menu of option when you access the control panel when you are a TA it s not always very clear when you are looking for something specific Professors please organize it well Have a research team sit with a student who is using it to design a more cognitive layout n a Have a list or instruction manual with all the f
194. r Somehow have the recollection that the various layers in this board were better organized and more clearly nested in earlier version of Blackboard could not taylor the current view to what thought made sense The email portion of BB is total garbage difficult to use awkward icons and absurd processes Have a competent software designer totally redesign the email interface or substitute a popular email package The gradebook needs much improvement The Help Desk has been outstanding responding to my questions What can be done to make it easier to find answers to questions without having to go to the Help Desk e g how to use the Test Student member The help system The most consistent problem encounter is students taking quizzes or exams and the system somehow locking up This is probably not a single issue but my most important concern for improvement would be reliability stability and realted to this is ease of use for students The online help for Blackboard was not as useful as contacting other instructors with questions This is not always convenient however so would suggest that the online tutorials be more detailed and interactive The only time used a Blackboard test most students seemed to have difficulty understanding how to stop their test time clock by logging out how to properly submit their exam they appeared to be in progress or they were uncertain which version of an exam they were submitting Working
195. r having considerable influence on their decision to even use BB in the first place Make lab TA s insert the grades online on blackboard for you lab grades Making sure they organize the items they issue onto blackboard If The folder says Course 141 Information then would assume to find a syllabus not the homework for next week organize their documents better and chronologically be up to date on the gades It would have been nice for our grades to have ben updated in a timely manner and for each class to only have one section to look under have a stats class with 3 different headings in balckboard two of which do nothing but take up space and create confusion as they are not used in accordance with the one most updated section Many instructors do not give access to grades online This is a confusing question Are you asking what would change on the Blackboard website or are you asking what would change about what my instructor does Updating more frequently They could be more organized in posting materials online They don t seem to put things in logical places or orders would want them to actually USE it to post grades and such For example BI 211 212 and 213 the instructor LAB doesn t use it at ALL for posting grades It would be very helpful if they did But they don t Make all instructors use Blackboard More uniform organization None that could possibly think of All links work and files load Po
196. r to find not in the tools section Making the Digital Drop Box Options more clear between what happens if you send a file or Add a file Or simply remove the Add a file option Change the Discussion portion to make it easier to go back to the main page instead of backing up a dozen screens or going all the way to the beginning Require all professors to use it the same way e g put the same documents under the same files etc none be able to access onid webmail through blackboard instead of using an entirely different site a requirement that all teachers must use blackboard and at least post course grades Maybe make it easier to connect with a small group of students promote the study group application better less tabs in the left hand column to keep things simpler especially if the intructor doesn t use all the tabs Training instructors on how to use it better and penalties for not using it to its full extent For example have one instructor who does not post grades so if we had questions about grades 153 we had to go see them in office hours The office hours weren t convenient for me at least and would much rather have simply been able to check on Blackboard It was inefficient for the instructor too having all the students try and see them in office hours Blackboard has been fine for my uses online proctored tests were extremely slow and not very responsive It takes a long time to get through the tes
197. rades for each of multiple recitations takes at least 3 times as long as needed since there are at least 3 recitations There are other issues along these lines that could be changed Train all instructors on effective use Those in education seem to have the most training the instructors in science that are use to lecture format need more strategies and efficiency in blackboard use in relaying their materials Listing classes that had previously been taken and grades attached require having grades on blackboard Make it mandatory for all instructors to use it for communication with students From what i mentioned in the previous statements about the speed and effectiveness of uploading files It works fine for me How to communicate with other students Less categories to put stuff in Make the roster more user friendly so that when you need to reach a fellow student you can easily obtain their email address without necessarily knowing their full name or the spelling of their name Have options so that you can let only the professor e mail you from blackboard and not the entire class For example in a large class people are constantly e mailing the entire class for notes don t want to receive an e mail every time someone misses class and wants notes The grades tab is sometimes under course tools and it would be easier if it was its own tab on the front page because grades are what really concern me Also my blackboard wouldn t allow me
198. raduate level and very small that is a reason chose to use other forms of communications sometimes find Blackboard to be extremely slow assume it is due to the high traffic created by students logging in It would be nice if instructors who are expected by their students to have material loaded in a timely manner were given priority access or access that wouldn t be affected by student traffic Starting about two years ago or so put every lecture on Blackboard as a pdf file converted from PowerPoint presentations usually teach only grad classes so the classes are small The students come in with the notes already printed out and this helps communication 100 percent never use Blackboard for testing because all of my exams are problem solving oriented using equations and Blackboard does not work for this application make all of my course material available on Blackboar Thank you for providing OSU Blackboard Please continue to have a dedicated helpline such as Jon Dorbolo provides His assistance is much valued Others might be able to also assist who are not professors but are staff members and would have a different way of explaining 127 Blackboard Thanks to Jon for his help The ability to provide course materials copies of lecture materials etc is invaluable Not very long ago a lot of time was spent photocopying handouts etc in advance of class This Blackboard feature alone is quite a time saver The Blackboa
199. raining on how to use the progam allow you to click on the annoucements to open the class you want Make grades easier to find Don t hide it under tools No major changes Just speed up loading times Standardize professors use of the system Altering the options for the options page to allow students to NOT view the default things on their homepages no suggestions make it required for instructors to post grades or course materials See above more logical notification system Nothing Rolling updates somewhat like the ones you have on Facebook Making it easier to email select classmates MAKE IT MANDATORY Make it easier to access the discussion board couldn t this term Have all files be directly on blackboard don t go through Mic Word or other programs would have a way to select only certain recipients for the e mail tool As it is have to choose to send to the entire class or the entire class plus the teachers would like to be able to just e mail the people who the subject is relevant to or who live near me not the whole class make it so you can connect to your onid email account seamlessly less cluttered interface nake sure that the teachers who use it use it Make all teachers use it Make it required that Instructors use Blackboard to allow students access to lecture materials study guides grades etc don t know It seems to work fine for what need See Q12 Not sure Fix PDF printing
200. raphic Design graphic design Economics and Business Administration Art History and Education Agribusiness Management and Food Science and Technology Undecided Nursing Marine Resource Management Business Administration and Spanish I m in General Engineering and have not yet decided on what major that will take in the Engineering Branch Business Administration and Merchandising Management Fermentation Science Aerospace Studies Bioresource Research History amp English Economics and Mechanical Engineering Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Medicinal Chemistry Dual Major Business Admin w marketing and Fish and Wildlife Sciences Nutrition and International Studies Psychology and Human Development and Family Sciences Psychology amp Education Apparel Design Manufacturing Engineering Marine Resource Management general social science Wood Science and Engineering Fine Arts Psychology and Human development and Family Sciences Geology and Hydrology Bioengineering History and Education Master of Arts in Teaching Vocal Performance Music Education Pre Engineering Fine Arts Fine Arts Nursing 132 Pre Nursing Electronics Materials science MEIE Engineering Forest Biometrics and Modeling Early Childhood Development and Education and Human Services option MAIS Music Education Music amp Education counseling education and supervision Mathematics Education Teacher Counselor Education Work
201. rd support folks are very helpful when email questions or call definitely rely heavily on Blackboard for posting materials and communicating with students would not want to teach without a course management system and don t think want to try something like Moodle on my own Thanks for asking for input The cursor occasionally drops out when entering a message to the discussion board or entering an email for distribution Very annoying The first time taught stopped using Blackboard due to the system crashing and because had not been properly oriented The second time taught consulted with another instructor and received some help It went better However still don t feel that have been properly oriented to all of the features The only reason haven t tried it out as an assessment tool is that teach a laboratory course with practical exams thus the students need to be in the lab to test their knowledge and understanding The students who do best at Blackboard are the ones that would do well anywhere It s hard for me to see that the less talented or marginal students are served by this system and I d recommend face to face instruction for those who need do develop college level skills They won t get them using Blackboard The system pretty well meets all of the teaching expectations have for it but managing the System is troublesome None but the simplest of its management elements can be fairly called easy to
202. re confusing especially setting up assessments and getting to different levels of control There was one check box on an test menu I think it said Do display score or something like that which apparently was only for student practice tests which threatened to wipe out all of the data from students testing because unwittingly checked it I didn t want students to see their correct answers and communicate that to other students It seems like a ridiculous oversight Some of the interface features are awkward to use As an instructor teach a large number of courses having a large number of past courses appear in the selection list makes it rather difficult to find the courses for the present term The past courses should be under a separate menu Also it is difficult to upload multiple columns of grades in one session there should be some ability to upload multiple columns at a time Sometimes drop the lowest midterm and or homework grade think blackboard should do this automatically Availability to get percentage scores on grade section per item i e for each homework and each exam The colors of the rows when entering grades should be stronger So it would be easier to distinguish them Speed system is too slow too long to load assignments slide sets etc Also there is one serious problem when you start typing in one section e g title of new material and the cursor just goes away Since look at the keyboard to type never
203. reatively without allowing for cheating Assessing student learning understanding and communication between students Assessing student performance Currently exams are graded at the Milne Computer Center and use Blackboard to post scores However if Blackboard could be used for the purposes of quizzes would be interested guess helping students find help within the group might be useful too if that is possible Assessing students and encouraging them to communicate with each other through blackboard assessing students previous knowledge how to compile information from various threads or postings assessment assessment assessment assessment of student learning Assessment of student learning in Mathematics Students communicating with each other Assessment Techniques and how to get students to communicate with each other and set up discussion groups Assessment tools assessment tools grade organization tools assessment tools posting video clips Assessment especially ensuring individual assessment without cheating On line discussion groups How to use blackboard so students can communicate with each other Assessment weighting scores in the grading process At this point am satisfied with the Bb skills that have already learned Basic general orientation to the system A sense of what it offers that is different and valuable for my teaching Basis functions and features 96 Can we mess with the overall arc
204. res posted on it and the ability to see my grades think the Blackboard system is increible and a very valuable asset It works great like the fact that everything can be right where need it like that have access to my grades and assignments when need them it makes doing papers easier when I know can find the instructions for the assignment from wherever am Nothing Have an introduction to blackboard for all new and transfer students all teachers should have to use blackboard because it can get confusing as to which techers use it and which ones do not its nice to know where you stand compared to the rest of the class If there was more showing how well you are doing in the class that would be nice Blackboard is a good system it needs to be better utilized by instructors as to meet every student s needs It is very important for me to be able to access this class information from the internet because can get to the information when am away from home like being able to see my grades Not all instructors who use Bb post the grades at all This is 175 annoying and would like all instructors to include grades so that know my progress All teachers should be required to use it It would make life as a student SO much easier wish all teachers used the Blackboard system It s a great system just needs bugs worked on w uploading and linking to files Have all professors use it as it is a very easy was to
205. roduced an important study that the CRC is conducting to evaluate the OSU Blackboard system All instructors who have taught a course from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 are being asked to participate in this important online survey for Blackboard In order to ensure the anonymity of respondents the OSU Survey Research Center OSU SRC is administering the survey and will provide an analysis of results to the CRC We would like to hear from every instructor regardless of whether or not you have used Blackboard We encourage you to be candid in your responses so that meaningful information will result The survey can be found online at http www stat oregonstate edu Blackboard Instructors Once there you will need a PIN number to access the survey Your personal PIN number is XXXX This survey is meant to learn about the Blackboard features that are most useful to the teaching process for OSU instructors Also important are your likes and dislikes with the Blackboard system Please know that your responses and comments will remain anonymous and confidential The Survey Research Center takes steps to ensure that anonymity will not be compromised in any way Your name will never be associated with the information you provide The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete We know that your time is precious and we are grateful for your participation Thank you Virginia M Lesser Director Survey Research
206. rvey In addition every student that was enrolled at OSU during winter quarter 2008 had the chance to be included in this study A random sample of 2 500 graduate and undergraduate students was selected by Frank Kessel of OSU Enterprise Computing All primary instructors that taught in any of the four quarters listed in SIS Data Warehouse was included in the instructor sample Carla Simonson of OSU Enterprise Computing was responsible for pulling and updating the instructor list for OSU SRC The faculty list included email address and campus address information In order to improve response rates an advance email message was sent from a Computer Resources Committee CRC email address on March 4 to all teaching staff in the sample The email with the link to the survey questionnaire was sent to all instructors two days later on March 6 A follow up paper survey was delivered to the campus address for all instructor non respondents on March 12 The paper survey was mailed to instructors located off campus using first class postage through the U S Postal Service The advance email message was sent from CRC to all selected students on March 6 The first notification of the link to the survey questionnaire was sent by email to students on March 10 Two follow up emails were transmitted to all non responding students on March 14 and April 3 Copies of the email messages and a hard copy of the web surveys are attached in Appendix A 1 and A2 for instructor
207. rvices By student name ID and the item score grade etc It takes a long time to get my spreadsheet into the sorted format required by Blackboard Allow the use IPA fonts to directly in Blackboard At this point students and need to create documents in Word and convert them to PDF to show IPA correctly This just doesn t work An interface that is initially easier for students to understand Most of them get it by week 3 but some are not comfortable and drop the class automatically roll over course material to the next appliable term Basic training Be able to change exam answers after posting exam Be able to take just one step to get to the control panel now it takes several steps to get there being able to change the fonts underline use color italic etc Being able to do things in batches Being able to upload an entire spreadsheet instead of column by column Better instructor support manual online instruction etc better job of categorizing FAQs better online documentation don t necessarily want to sit through a tutorial to learn something of course maybe just missed the documentation Better on line help tutorials examples Community based course test bank for online quizzes Faculty can contribute problems to a community test bank categorized randomized etc and other faculty can select problems or categories of problems for online quizzes in subsequent terms Faculty could rate problems in terms
208. s and students respectively Results Response Rates Results for the student and instructor surveys are presented in Table 1 A and 1 B Six hundred and eighty three students completed and submitted the web survey while 475 instructors completed the survey and an additional 166 instructors completed the paper survey Some students and instructors asked not to be included in further contacted and are considered refusals in the disposition table below Any faculty or students that could not be reached by the email or campus mail address provided are reported as undeliverable below Table 1 A Student Response summary for the Oregon State University Blackboard Tools Evaluation Survey Frequency 96 Description 683 27 3 96 Completed 11 04 96 Undeliverable email address 4 02 96 Refusal 1802 72 1 96 Not returned 27 3 RESPONSE RATE 27 4 ADJUSTED RESPONSE RATE Table 1 B Instructor Response summary for the Oregon State University Blackboard Tools Evaluation Survey Frequency 96 Description 475 24 4 96 Completed Web 166 8 5 96 Completed Paper 111 5 7 96 Undeliverable email address 27 1 4 96 Undeliverable paper address 17 0 9 96 Not Available On leave Sabbatical 33 1 7 96 No longer at OSU 10 0 5 96 Refusal 1108 57 00 96 Not returned 33 0 RESPONSE RATE 36 5 ADJUSTED RESPONSE RATE Frequency Results All questions were summarized in a frequency analysis Results of the frequency analyses for all records are provided for the ins
209. s cumbersome at best Respondus helps but has its own problems 1 Simplify the process for setting content and tool preferences for a given course 2 Make the on line grade book more flexible including a report line for current grade percentage 3 Make it easier for the instructor to see what students see 1 Make the uploading of grades from Excel master rosters easier 2 Allow simultaneous login of instructor and test student 1 Quick making it so CLICK happy 2 Make it easier to access 3 Make it more responsive 4 Improve the user interface to incorporate human interface guidelines see Apple if this makes no sense 1 See Q 15 above for the printing problems 2 Uploading exams particularly multiple choice and multiple answer exams is a tedious process now have Ecampus folks do it but that requires an extra step in the process of preparing exams 1 Gradebook leave names showing when scroll right 2 Provide option to global delete all items in a Content Area When copy a course from one term to the next have to delete each entry individually 3 When adding a new entry in a Content Area cursor disappears after 5 10 seconds 1 Larger text entry fields more lines visible at one time 2 Larger fields when viewing discussion forum threads more lines visible at one time 3 Ability to expand collapse discussion threads without having to open each one this was available on an earlier version 4 Easier and more reli
210. s etc that should not require me to click on so many links the whole user interface needs an overhaul It is ugly non intuitive confusing and makes my life harder rather than easier There are too many courses listed in the teaching column It is very difficult to find the correct course from the way they are listed To allow students more than one submission for an assignment without me clearing what has already been submitted Allow for a choice of how many submissions can occur To be able to customize the columns like a spreadsheet with the flexibility of a soreadsheet ie move the last column over near the first column so we don t have to scroll all the way over to the last column too new to it to know excellent example of this One has to navigate through 3 windows to enter a SINGLE GRADE tutorials uncertain upload grades from Milne computer center Upload speed Usability testing a layout that doesn t use frames the ability to create and update our own modules better communication with non Blackboard products tabs that actually act like tabs Use of another setup than frames seamless integration of page contents user workshops We need too many clicks to get from one point to another would suggest that anyone entering blackboard with administrator capabilities should be able to get directly into managing the course Adding files and folders is not very user friendly again too many clicks confirmations and having to go
211. s in textboxes is terrible It s very good as it is although would like to have the text editor updated to the 7 3 level which use at another school rather than being used at the older pre 7 level last year the grades were automatically erased from blackboard and lead to major hassle to find grades live websides Make availability options more concise In order to make information available to students particularly for tests it seems like you have to select several redundant options Make Blackboard compatible with Mac Make grade updating more efficient Allow multiple columns to in a spread sheet to be uploaded and updated simultaneously Make grade book functions more consistent and probably easier to manipulate make gradebook more user friendly right now can t accommodate extra credit make it accessible for students who use assistive technology Make it easier to form and manage groups like it used to be with a table and check boxes Its very time consuming now Also list all users on the same page the ability to sort users by last name on the discussion board sure would be helpful too Make it easier to include people from other classes and outside of OSU e g to view selected content Allow students to post content in course sites not just discussion forum Acquire a student advising audit system e g UO Duckweb and integrate with Blackboard Allow non anonymous surveys Support direct posting of content from deskt
212. s in this regard Improve the grade calculation portion of the program by adding the capability to drop the lowest grade from a set of grades improve the gradebook function so that it is as flexible as a spreadsheet in terms of calculating groups of scores for example a quiz average and being able to easily weight scores Improve the navigation structure by making it more customizable Improve the reliability of the Blackboard Improve the user interface to incorporate human interface guidelines see Apple if this makes no sense Improved quiz editing Include an instant messaging system It really meets all my needs as currently teach classes It should be easier to hide classes that are not currently being taught The blackboard greeting page is a mess because of this It s great very user friendly Just more training offered on features that are not commonly known on BB feel like just know the basics and would like to learn more efficient ways of completing certain tasks Just the text editor updated Kind of a minor suggestion but it was difficult for me to enter grades because couldn t tell which square to enter the grades went with which student s name Make the lines more easily distinguished one dark the next light etc Larger text entry fields more lines visible at one time and more flexible page formatting For instance we should be able to collapse the Collect Flag Clear field at the top of the Thread de
213. s too embarassed to ask what they were talking about didn t use blackboard until my sophamore year when had to because didn t know what it was or where to find it would like instructors to spend about 5 10 minutes in class going over how they will organize course documents communication grades so that know that THEY realize what it is like to use blackboard and so that students do not have to scour the course site to figure everything out More about the basic features None There really aren t any but that s nothing against Blackboard I m fine with how it s set up and think it s extremely easy to use and navigate Short of there being hidden aspects of the Blackboard system that am unaware of I m content with the knowledge already possess tutors i feel i understand it pretty well its a fairly straight forward program How to better use the discussion boards student online services Learning about the communication tools and electronic blackboard nothing really none The whole thing How to upload and store files No response Nothing at this point It would have been nice to be introduced to blackboard during start week None the gradeing system how to add indvidual users to special groups organizations that belong to blackboard posting assignments Blackboard is so much nicer than other systems My home university switched from Blackboard 148 to Desire to Learn system It cost more money and not as
214. scores grades that will be easier than fighting with gradebook don t remember well the assessment tools of Blackboard have a form that needs changing Also I m sure there are nice functions do not use have been able to figure out most things that needed did find the early warning system that was added very unintuitive this year so have not used as much as thought would have had terrible problems with BB assessments especially this last quarter we have now figured out that Firefox should be used instead of IE but had some students who had to restart the exams repeatedly b c it kept freezing on them would like more information on why this is happening and what if anything can do to help minimize this very frustrating problem would like ideas on how to improve the lecture format of my ECourses as don t think the written lectures are as engaging in comparison to having someone face to face talking about the subject Also would like to incorporate some short videos of me introducing a topic into my lectures for my ECourse Perhaps this is something that a tutorial could be written on have never had a complete orientation to its features have consulted with another faculty member to learn the basics mostly use the system just to post my Powerpoint slides prior to lectures just use the basics right now posting materials emailing the class using the discussion board for weekly reflection questions I
215. scribe 505 99 21 No response Frequency Missing 330 509 100 00 Q9 Which statement best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to evaluate the level of student knowledge understanding or progress Q9 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent I use OSU Blackboard to assess student learning and plan to continue doing so 168 33 01 168 33 01 I have used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning in the past but do not plan to do so again 19 3 73 187 36 74 I have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs 90 17 68 277 54 42 I have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning because I am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose 35 76 459 90 18 Other Describe 9 63 508 99 80 No response Frequency Missing 330 49 0 20 509 100 00 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q10 Which statement best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside of the classroom Q10 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent I use OSU Blackboard to allow students to communicate with one another outside of the classroom and plan to continue to do so
216. se Blackboard quizzes instead but that has some important in my opinion limitations When polling my senior students about blackboard almost 100 hate it don t know why So for 10 years have used the excellent class support tools that COE computing has provided with class mail lists and web pages They are easy to setup easy for students to use and have almost perfect uptime BTW this survey does not seem to be very objective It seems to be a attempt at justifying the cost of Blackboard Why not use Moodle instead It s cheaper more easily customized and probably even allows IPA fonts works well Workshops are the easiest way for me to learn and would go to them to help learn more about what blackboard can do You should know that presently use two class websites and email 129 Appendix E 2 Student Comments 130 Q1 Other unknown taking classes toward my bach 5th year senior junior in high school still being evaluated classes needed for job with the US Forest Service 4 of 5or6 years International Exchange exchange student Continuing Education Continuing Education just finished bachelors Q2Other Chemistry and chemical engineering and wood sicence Major in Bilogy and a double degree in eduction Master s of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Liberal Arts History Education Dual Chemistry and Finance Molecular and Cellular Biology Irrigation Engineering and Liberal Studies Adult Education Coll
217. se many of the features available on Blackboard if it is a pain to implement and the benefits are minor Make upload process easier for instructors with large graphics or media files Works fine for me If the instructor chooses not to use Blackboard provide a link through Blackboard to their class website Adding a help or a tutorial tool in the blackboard none Ability to simply make it relevant to courses rather than ASOSU and other campus services none Integrating webmail into the blackboard system course calenders and scheduling in an easily accessible format Make it more user friendly for the professors so all of them feel comfortable using the system which will make it easier for students to become more knowledgeable about the system because they can ask their professors if they have any questions standardize document presentation parameters that allow consistent efficient printing i e being able to print documents taken from magazines online sources without wasting paper and ink on stupid advertisments or Blackboard menus or webpage frames Make blackboard more uniform betweeen subjects and teachers An automatic login remember me option for personal computers would be great Maybe have optional email alerts For example if an upcoming assignment was due or new grades were posted Don t charge extra money to add e campus classes Allow the instructor to choose the relevant folders and leave out all others Have all ins
218. source lab as well as talented students in the CS curriculum feel that such a change would be for the better Every faculty member l ve spoken to in my studies has agreed with this assessment Works great If didn t have access to all of my course materials it would change school dramatically for me think it fits my needs well but it would be nice if all professors either used blackboard OR all profs used their websites don t ask for suggestions in three different ways just read the above two think that it is more important to teach teachers how to use blackboard then to teach students we figure it out but think some teachers need help especially if they are older think that all instructors should be required to use Blackboard It makes it so much easier to know where you stand in class plus it s so much easier to catch mistakes in your grades It seems to be working well for me right now so there s not much to change It s pretty handy It is good for disseminating information to students rapidly as long as the information gets up nothing this is the same question as before Make it faster 173 Being able to keep track of your scores on tests and activities is very helpful If it was required of all classes it would make keeping track of school a lot easier Blackboard is great when Professors utilize it Most students that know want their grades up on blackboard to monitor their class progress more than anything
219. ssors slow response to using Blackboard s features Make it easier for them to enter our grades and total grade percentages Although it does not seem like it should be hard find many of my teachers complaining that it takes too long so they never enter in course grades and scores the way grades can be displayed and totaled manditory grade entry onto blackboard have more materials ahead of time sometimes large files loaded onto blackboard take a long time to access but don t know if this is a problem with the way instructors put them on the site or if it is a shortcoming of the site design posting up important dates such as the midterms and final at least 2 weeks before Also making sure to put up lots of practice test Updating efficiency on the professors part Be sure all Blackboard messages can be accessed on Blackboard Make sure the instructors use current term s dates Create a more natural accurate grade entry system that shows percentages for assignments does not include weighting unless it is specifically requested and does not include assignments that have not yet been assigned in the final point totals easier navigation to certain documents None post lectures earlier would have the instructor give more correspondance Dr Egenolf Statistics was terrible Dr Sanborne Technical Writing was outstanding Having good outlines of course deadline dates and materials to cover for each week think it is perfect
220. st a few links instead of having to search for my course information Make teachers use it none its a good system and is helpfull It s helpful My sorority uses blackboard for our organization and it s a feasibile way to send out mass e mails overall its clunky and hard to navigate becuase there is generally only one way link to get to certain areas which is super frustrating really like BB when used well but most profs dont use it well or at all and this inconsistency is very frustrating to deal with on a course to course basis 174 its good for keeping things organized but only if it is up to date I m satisfied with current system like blackboard find it very helpful when looking up course materials and my grades Nothing none like how can check my grades online and get access to the materials for my class could we keep our info from blackboard after the term is over It would be nice if the discussion boards were more actively used One of my classes uses them on a regular basis and they re quite effective Good tool overall Professors don t utilize it enough feel that Blackboard is a very useful tool in staying successful in college can see what assignments still need to turn in can see the grades have received on homework and tests and also get notes from class Get rid of the links that no one uses especially in the tools menu Other than the items mentioned previously Blackboard is pretty
221. st all assignments and documents on blackboard for easy access Posting grades using the weighted percentages and putting up the final percentages for each assignment toward your grade against the overall class 100 More knowledge of how the system works capabilities How to update grades from spreadsheets to online for students to keep track of their grade in the course Post grades to all assignments Some teachers use blackboard but do not post grades at all which makes it difficult to gauge how you are doing in the course Post our current grades on there If an instructor is going to use the Blackboard system it is very important for them to display ALL pertinent assignment material Not just some of the material but all the material must be displayed If the instructor is not educated in a particular area perhaps they should seek instruction from educators who are proficient in the particular area they are trying to teach so they can display correct guidelines so that students can correctly proceed Also an instructor MUST follow the model of they course they are presenting and requiring their students to follow The instructor MUST be the EXAMPLE and NOT deviate from their set criteria Blackboard is Very effective if the instructor is Very effective Post all lecture notes materials think there should be a standard amount of usage between all teachers Only one used the gradebook Some only post lecture notes and some post
222. st either create a zipped folder or must do multiple postings Sometimes drop the lowest midterm and or homework grade think blackboard should do this automatically Or allow me to give different midterms different weights according to the performance of each student speed Speed amp flexibility of options in the gradebook speed it up have been on lightning fast computers that as soon as go into blackboard gradebook move slow as molasses from screen to screen SPEED IT UP speed up whatever server it runs on or optimize the code It s needlessly slow Speedier servers that crash less Stabilize it so that it doesn t freeze on quizzes and exams this is perhaps the one source of great frustration for both myself and the students Although we occasionally have problems with the Assignment tool freezing invariably the problems are with the assessments 118 Streamline it Make it more efficient and user friendly No other software package use is as cumbersome as Blackboard That the classlist and gradebook do not go away at the end of the term There have been many times that I d like to go back and look up the classlist of a course in previous terms that the classlist is gone The ability to format online quizzes using tables The branching display for the various discussion fora and their threads is not very logical sometimes and is not displayed at least could not get it to display in the most uder friendly manne
223. structor uses Blackboard effectively and there are no changes needed To make imputting grade a must Some teaches have the link set up but nothing is ever posted so you can t keep track knowledge of how to use the blackboard system Most instructors do not know how to completely utilize the blackboard system and then don t or the blackboard system takes too much of their time to edit so the do not use it or its full features Utilize the same format Posting powerpoint lecture material in sequence so it matches to a date it was presented posting score to tests earlier and making it easier to find documents on blackboard there Seems to be a lot of different course document assignment whatever sections and have a tough time knowing where my assignment is going to be eventually find it but it is just a big hassle especially when the internet isn t working as fast as it should This term my instructor posted some of the quizes we took and not others He stated there was a problem and if we wanted copies of our tests we could email him It would have been easier had the problem just been fixed Having easy access to what have missed might have helped me study for the midterm and final None To organize the class material a little better some instructors will just throw all the material in on folder at random and it makes it hard to find things Post grades Updating grades as often as possible easier to find documents in the the tabs
224. structors are to do online grading they need to keep it up to date They would post grades online more frequently Some instructors should use the Grading system on Blackboard Have all the instructors know how to use blackboard Better organization of class notes provided better labeling of files and accurate dates they will be presented Use it more To respond to students more quickly through blackboard posting grades sooner etc use the announcements more Communicate with students by checking onid and emails on blackboard ASAP really like how blackboard is set up the only change would like to see would be that the proffessors keep it up dated reguarly From my experience most professors update their blackboard page twice once at the beginning of the term and once at the end This makes it very un useful and frustrating Making sure some lecture notes are available and having more announcements and more reading online 139 Post grades in a timely manner and use the toolbar buttons like their supposed to be used course documents needs to have stuff in their relavent to the course syllabus and assignments need to go in the assignments area chatroom Make it outrageously easy for them to post grades for classwork midterms and other assignments That way they will actually post grades before week 8 and its too late for you to do anything about it To take advantage of the capabilities that blackboarb presents have
225. t It seems to be a good system right now less tab Automatic notification for announcement make it more reliable Make it mandatory that all courses use it just made it see above A different user software for tutorials See Q12 just made one Getting the pages to load faster would be a great improvement on the Blackboard system know at times the My Grades section freezes at least on my computer Make it more faster as it doesn t work sometimes in the times of need would change the interface it is pretty jumbled way to much stuff not very organized Make it more like a user friendly search engine It would be awesome if it could combine the lectures and labs and recitations together under one heading N A make all of the profs use it fully To make it a requirement that teachers put your course grades on blackboard even if that s all that it was used for 166 Make it look nicer and easier to move around it Make it easier to get to different folders Tagging files on Blackboard to your specifications i ve had good experience no suggestions sorry i really don t have any complaints Separation of classes in a different format possibly read Q12 Make it so if you long into blackboard you can also check your e mail without signing in again at onid Get another software and dont throw away money on something that isn t very good You could spend that money more effectively Give instructors better t
226. t More Video Well what usually hear from Professors is that it is not that user friendly like they are told So do something to make it more user friendly Personalize views of postings make it easier to use to avoid wasting time None like the set up of blackboard Already mentioned the Flash program that Chemeketa and Nevada uses Organization Blackboard is fine Making it easier for the teachers to enter grades electronically so that students have them faster Make the names of the courses clearer the ability to add extra credit to the grading system Overhaul the structure hate having to go to the main page to find grades and stuff Plus e mail notifications of announcements posted would be great don t always remeber to check blackboard and sometimes miss important announcements making sure teachers use blackboard Not sure Make it easier to access grades The three things we as students do with Blackboard are in this order Grades Course Materials posts quizzes etc Announcements Two of the three are available directly from the main page of almost every blackboard Grades require digging through other menus that contain a wide variety of unused features podcasts found emailing students somewhat difficult and confusing None none Better email From a recitation instructors standpoint there are some things that could be less time consuming to use For example having to upload and download g
227. t There are too many key strokes to entering grades In addition l d like to be able to enter a lot of different assignments without the course total disappearing in the length of the spreadsheet found everything that needed which isn t much fairly self explanatory except posting surveys for the students i hate having to enter grades individually when using the blackboard gradebook it is inefficient it is also particularly inefficient to upload grades when i have more than one assignment to post to update Additionally i dislike how even a a simple procedure usually involves multiple clicks and double checks before the action actually occurs hate the new dialog boxes that get in the way when you are entering scores have found that the tutorials at the Blackboard site are very slow to load and many require that the user be working in MS windows which do not Broaden platform support and have tutorials available locally have had several discussions about blackboard teach a class that is offered twice a day BI212 It is the exact same class but at different times The set up of Blackboard for this class is inconvenient and does not allow me to use some of the features have to upload everything twice Additionally the discussion boards are run separately was tempted to use the digital office hours but would have to do it separately for each class have NO idea have none at this time have not used Blac
228. t any students from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 using OSU blackboard please skip now to question 14 on page 4 18 Q8 Please read the following statements and choose the one that best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to communicate with students Circle one number 1 2 3 4 5 use OSU Blackboard to communicate with students and plan to continue to do so have used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students in the past but do not plan to do so again have never used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs have never used OSU Blackboard to communicate with students because am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose Other Describe Q9 Which statement best describes your level of use of OSU Blackboard to evaluate the level of student knowledge understanding or progress Circle one number 1 2 3 4 5 use OSU Blackboard to assess student learning and plan to continue doing so have used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning in the past but do not plan to do so again have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning because Blackboard capabilities do not meet my needs have never used OSU Blackboard to assess student learning because am not familiar with the Blackboard tools for this purpose Other Describe Q10 Which statement best describes your level of use o
229. tail page and the black banner with OSU and the orange tabs at the top of each page The current format is fine on a 20 screen but on an older desktop or a small laptop it is very frustrating Less black outs Less clicks to manage the course Less clunky fewer steps to do things Rename the Discussion board Thread Students do not know what this means Can t we call it post a reply or something more intuitive Less command heavy Blackboard is not intuitive it functions like some sort of Microsoft 115 product Make Blackboard more like a Mac operating system List courses which are current and activated separately from those that are not active or were taught in the previous year Make announcement creation more easily accessible than having to go through Control Panel etc Why not just put a button New as in other areas Make Blackboard compatible with Mac Make grade updating more efficient Allow multiple columns to in a spread sheet to be uploaded and updated simultaneously make it accessible for students who use assistive technology Make it easier for instructors to learn Make it easier to form and manage groups Make it easier to move existing Course documents into a newly created folder make it easier to remove courses already completed and do not list all sections for a large lecture class only the section that each instructor is responsible for make it easiler to use Make it easy to use make it faster M
230. ter homepage more personalized Require instructors to utilize it Better Interface There are plenty of graphic design and computer science majors at OSU and they could be used effectively fix the problem that kicks us off when taking a quiz Nothing seems to work good Library access Make the tabs in each page easier to follow Make the Instructors able to hide all previous quarter classes Otherwise they have to visually 163 look through a list of about 100 classes named the same thing but have a different year Change the Discussion portion to make it easier to go back to the main page instead of backing up a dozen screens or going all the way to the beginning none onid webmail access course grades in all classes A faster connection to the site No matter what type of internet use it takes a while for blackboard to load up The system itself is very good it s just the instructors who don t use it well or to its full extent see Q12 train the instructors More video Just making it more user friendly for the professors know how to use it and haven t had any complaints this is just what i hear from professors Ability to view own postings made and new responses to postings very problematic with a large class and multiple responses required to different postings None See above Organization Blackboard is fine Fixing glitches with access to grades in some classes may be teacher s fault see Q12 the ab
231. th instructors and other students did not use Blackboard system In the past when was required to use Blackboard in classes it seemed as that no one Instructor or students know how to best utilize the tool It seems that instructors could use more training on what are the effective ways to use blackboard and what are the unproductive ways that should be avoided did like being able to easily send email to my lab students through the section compiled email 177 addresses think it s use and implementation between professors is completely different would like to be able to get more course materials via the internet like articles or sound clips instead of having them only on reserve in the library Blackboard is not perfect in every aspect and clunky at times but also understand that the wide variety of feature requests that instructors have make this something of an inevitability In general think that it is a good system and it has been a helpful resource for many of my classes would say that on average instructors greatly under utilize its power cool idea and its very helpful but sometimes teachers use it too much THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR ME IS FORGETTING ABOUT ASSIGNMENTS very few people check blackboard daily there should be an email reminder system for assignments and tests that are due think that it works really well From my experiences with blackboard so far only one course the system is fine the way it
232. ther upload these people in this group or use a column in the grade book and say add students to the group name which matches this column Resolve usually sluggish and occasionally slow page loads Allow the dropbox to be set up by assignment i e so there are separate drop boxes for each assignments or separate locations like in WebCT Allow direct access to student homepages from the course menu so that you don t have to list the roster first Get a much better instruction manual for instructors Allow work on Blackboard to be done less cumbersomely It takes five keystrokes to post a grade Terribly inefficient Allowing individuals from off campus to see course material not hiding everything so much 103 An easy way for the material to be retained from quarter to quarter so it does not all have to be put on know there is a way to save it but it is not easy Anything that can be done to make it more user friendly is good Anything that might help with translation of software from student to teacher or vice versa Basic training BB meets my needs given how am using it which is to disseminate material be able to easily post something to more than one class at a time I teach 2 sections of the same course and have to post each item twice so it is on both blackboard sites being able to do things in batches Being able to use videos Better content management ability to select multiple documents to upload at once ability
233. thing more with Blackboard It has always enabled me to see anything want to see and offered communication sources to anyone wished If the instructor is expecting students to use blackboard for communication and course documents the the instructor should be willing to reciprocate by utilizing our access to grades etc Sometimes the grading would not make any sense and it was hard to tell what was counting for grades and what wasn t Also some professors posted lots on blackboard which was awesome but other posted nothing which made it difficult to know how was doing it that particular class Keeping grades up to date notes to go with the required text would be helpful Easier access to the articles that we were suppose to read get the impression there are too many links to the same things Simplify it 134 Take advantage of more feature offered wish that more instructors would post grades for assignments and tests so that students have a better idea about where they stand throughout the term teach them how to use it Be consistent and timely with updating grades Use it frequently Some teachers do not use it consistently For example they will only post grades or slides for a class once every three weeks The teachers that do things daily or at least weekly are much better because we have ethings in a timely matter that allows us to keep up to date in our courses none None am enrolled in an online course so the in
234. tle notes and things Sometimes feels messy cluttered as opposed to being visually appealing smooth and logical require all teachers to use it Course management systems are important for grades and easy access to class tools But blackboard is hard to navigate At my old school we used the same type of thing but not blackboard that I liked much more like the ability to check my grades and get course materials Also the ability to take online classes love blackboard think the best improvment that could be made is that if the teachers were encouraged to use the system more and to keep their pages updated If encouragment is not enough then mabey something like a bribe would be because that is the only thing that is frustrating about the whole system nothing i don t know Its a pretty good system really wealth of uses if all classes were required to use Blackboard even just for sylabi and grades think the system would be pretty close to complete it s a good way to calculate grades OSU Blackboard seems to work well found it very helpful with the class took winter term OSU Blackboard is an effective tool and think it has done its required job very well like it a lot It would be more useful to me if all teachers used it to post grades like knowing my grade in each class and on each assignment The system is too broad A more compact system would be more helpful where everything could be found within ju
235. to move documents etc around the site more easily etc Better format of discussion board threads Better gradebook functions Better instruction on how to use Blackboard Maybe just missed it but everything know about using Blackboard have learned through trial and error and a great deal of swearing It is very cumbersome when the class size is large mine can be anywhere from 24 up to 750 It would be really nice to be able to upload several columns of scores at one time rather than doing only one at a time and having to go through several screens each time Better method of entering formatted text e g computer programming text other than raw HTML Better online examination capabilities for engineering math problems Better online manual Better support for certain specialized technical fonts in text input fields easier work flow for narrative rather than letter grade numerical feedback on assessments better user interface for the e portfolio module it was a disaster Better user interface In general it s too complicated Blackboard allows grades of A but A isn t a grade used by OSU It would be good if the maximum grade shown on Blackboard reflected OSU allowable grades It would make it easier when sending grades at the end of the term instead of having to enter manually Bugs seemed to be fewer and fewer thanks cannot think of anything significant to say here Can t recommend changes because know little about all
236. to learning how to use the system Encouragement and tutorials might help improve participation maybe that s done already Digital dropbox rejects papers a lot because of symbols I believe Identifying what can cannot be used in titles would be nice online textbooks or readings from the text books no changes to suggest A more intuitive and user friendly interface In fact PowerSchool is much much better http www powerschool com Make it easier for the faculty to use so more of them would actually use it Nothing Really things mostly just depend on how much professors decide to use it If they use it to its full capabilities things are fine A directory tree structured left hand navigation More opportunities to interact with students podcasts Consistent links on the page for each class Consistent gradeing posted regularly A more efficient use of space and links on blackboard itself A simplified menu would be alot less stressful and confusing hardly use it other than to get grades before they appear on a transcript so I m not sure Make the system easier to load A more efficient way of conducting exams would be a great improvement For example if the back button is hit on accident or a computer crashes someone has to retake their entire exam from the beginning and it s highly inefficient don t know how this would be improved but it should be Allowing teachers to manipulate the site more More interactive with stu
237. to respond to It would be very difficult to manage grading and separate forums for small groups and to be able to print off grade sheets for permanent records would like to have the email function with all enrolled students available earlier than it usually is available It is good to contact students early in preparation for buying books providing info etc and often the student list is not available until right before the class starts would like to have virtual office hours If this is already a part of Blackboard then need instruction If it isn t it should be would like to see Ecampus open its doors by allowing completely free access for anyone who wants to view the content This wouldn t cost OSU anything and would in fact make more people aware of what s here Credit of course should always be charged but content should be free would say that I m rather tired of talking about hearing about being forced to interact with Blackboard Not all instruction is dependent on technology wouldn t care if Blackboard was available to me or not spend too much time as is staring at a computer screen wouldn t want to be you So many teachers and students rely now on Blackboard that when something goes wrong it is like martial law conditions Obviously you are providing a vital service to the university Good luck in the future Suggestion Regardless of how this survey comes out please don t make major wholesale changes to Bla
238. to the side Require all teachers to post their grades on Blackboard Instructors don t always use the full suite tools availble on Blackboard learn to post notes better not so many e mails Actually use the grades feature so that we are able to track our own grades online Keep grades updated weekly so when we take the final we have an idea what our final grade will be If they but all the lectures slides on blackboard Post their grades on blackboard Most of my teachers just post the assignments or the readings but therre are not grades taht are posted on there Timely response have had a great experience so have no suggestions Using the discussion area more Seemed fine no changes needed Having them get a better understanding of how what to do on there love the messages on blackboard wish more teachers used that and checked that feature out PLEASE POST GRADES IN A TIMELY FASHION would prefer if OSU would do away with proctored exams For one instructor to post lecture slides on Blackboard like many others do use Blackboard at least ten times a day feel every professor that have uses Blackboard very efficiently All my professors are able to return an email quickly and post my grades quickly had one issue with a grade because the TA grading my homework got my name mixed up with another student and gave me a zero instead of the other student If had not had Blackboard to check my grades efficiently would h
239. tructor Surveys How important if at all are each of the following to your teaching and learning processes The FREQ Procedure c The ability to post course materials online Q7C Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 4 0 63 4 0 63 Very Important 445 70 41 449 71 04 Important 92 14 56 541 85 60 Somewhat Important 36 5 70 577 91 30 Slightly Important 17 2 69 594 93 99 Not at all Important 31 4 91 625 98 89 No response Frequency Missing 207 7 1 11 632 d The ability to post grades and scores online 100 00 Q7D Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent Not sure No basis for opinion 10 1 58 10 1 58 Very Important 286 45 25 296 46 84 Important 110 17 41 406 64 24 Somewhat Important 69 10 92 475 75 16 Slightly Important 43 6 80 518 81 96 Not at all Important 17 25 627 99 21 No response Frequency Missing 207 47 0 79 632 100 00 48 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys How important if at all are each of the following to your teaching and learning processes The FREQ Procedure e The ability to evaluate what students know understa
240. tructor use the system making sure the instructors know how to use blackboard and encorage them to do so even if their class is not an online class i dont know Make it easier for professors to use it not so confusing of a grades and score table live question and answer section for the class like group chat that can help to work with classmates on assignments that can be used with other programs like google talk aim or msn messenger More intuitive navigation more flexibility for how it is used by professors for example if no course documents are available don t have that as a navigation option the log in screen is very crowded simplify options here to make it relevant and easier to use if teachers actually used it i have never had a term where all my classes were on BB Its really inconvienient for the students Online chat with advisor Show status busy or free of advisor when he she is in his her office hour am happy with regular class web pages and email hate blackboard often because of speed issues among other things The system is fine more teachers need to use only about 1096 of my teachers over my college career have used blackboard Having the system more widely used so every teacher would use Blackboard to post scores 159 and documents More routine use of it Most professors still don t seem to use it when I think it could be very useful for them and the students Perhaps they re resistant
241. tructors are very disorganized Teach them how to use the damn program Most of them don t know how to enter in the rades ib would be better if there weren t so many places for them to put different documents They can be very hard to find N A placing course grades online as well as lecture power points All teachers would have us submit papers electronically so as we will not watse as much paper When things are graded to post them in the gradebook on blackboard Instead of saying there s something new up on the announcements page link to it no change have had good experience with blackboard to keep grades updated to black board at all times n a Make it a little more organized with dates and assignments Also when submitting tests and assignments have had complications but overall fairly successful No big complaints uploading grades from an excel sheet Using some other system Blackboard is not worth the money the school is paying Switch to some much cooler open source solutions Posting information about assignments farther in advance A standard on where certain information should be located My different instructors place different things in different locations for example one instructor places homework problems under course documents another in assignments Putting up grades in a timely manner The grades tend to load slow if there is anything that can be done about that Remove clutter from features that no o
242. tructors in Appendix B while the results from the students are provided in Appendix C The coding for these frequency results is interpreted as follows For all questions number represents the number of respondents replying to each category percent represents the percentage of respondents answering each category and cumulative refers to the cumulative frequency or percentage of respondents answering each category as you work down the sequential list of choices in the question The codebook showing variable names acceptable codes skip patterns and other survey formatting information is located in Appendix D 1 for instructors and D 2 for students Open ended comments from instructors and students are available in Appendix E 1 and E 2 respectively Instructor Results Fifty seven percent of the questionnaires were completed on the web while 20 completed the survey by paper The largest percentage of instructor respondents 19 were located in the College of Science followed by the College of Liberal Arts 18 696 Thirty percent of the respondents were tenured professors while 2396 were instructors Question 2 The average total credit hours taught by the respondents between spring quarter 2007 and winter quarter 2008 was 13 5 hours Question 3 These respondents stated that the average credit hours not using Blackboard during this same time period was 5 3 hours Question 4 while the average credit hours using Blackboard during this same t
243. turned in as a hard copy have no direct communication with anyone and we do not use blackboard in any way What exactly was that 600 dollars for anyway already pay enough to this school Allow unused sections folders to be removed by the instructor to save the time of looking through all of the folders to find one document Be more timely with posting grades and apply the correct weight to the score so have an accurate representation of my grade Actually use blackboard and not link to their own websites better organization posting grades post current news or brief summaries of what will has been covered post lecture notes Working links within backboard Can t think of any at the moment make it easier to post grades It would be beneficial if it were used more consistently both by the professor who used it and among all professors Without consistent use it is difficult to know when to check it and what to look for Ease of use Adobe it made me purchace the program to view the course docs Posting grades Often they will not post grades until the end of the term so it s pointless to have blackboard for that class nothing my teachers use is very well Video taped lectures for e campus courses 143 get rid of it Make full use of forums so students can talk about class topics More frequent updates of the system to post grades or documents or such things on the web for students to access To have them use it
244. udent s school email account need decent accessible how to information so that can figure out how to do stuff myself Lacking that an active online discussion community is nice need frequent workshops need one and blackboard except for email is workable but it is archaic Blackboard needs significant improvement to make it more usable but this is an effort that should be undertaken object to the assumption that Bb is the best tool for course management on campus The original selection was undemocratic and we are not now allowed to question openly whether it should remain our single course management solution despite the millions spent on it every year Open source alternatives should have been on the table from the start i often have problems with students who don t use their ONID email so when i send a mass email i still doubt whether or not the studetns receive or even know that i have made an announcement It would also be nice to be able to easily remove classes from my recently taught class scedule i m sure that there is an easy way to remove them but b c the site is so difficult to navigate i tried once and quit and this was with emailed instructions only use Blackboard for the ability to securely communicate grade information and to send blanket emails to the class otherwise maintain an outside extensive website for posting homework and announcements Blackboard is too slow for me to use given the amount
245. uff more graphics more interaction among students teachers trained and required to use it to at least some extent For instance to post grades that all teachers used it to some extent and all core classes taught students how to access and use it don t know have not used it recently Q13 Cannot think of any see above none give a mandatory class to professors on how to use the Blackboard System effectively Improve the interface A calender system that shows every assignment and test and when they will be due want to be able to add my own items to it too no While looking at a thread on the discussion board and using the back button it takes you to the beginning of the thread instead of the last entry that you were looking at make it faster maybe More student freedom Improve it s efficiency it sometimes becomes very slow Email alerts interactivity between individual courses and a main page grades discussions coursework etc 161 Make it easier to email peers none Make a live forum so students could instant message to each other It would make meeting in groups easier because of busy schedules Allow instructors to name their own folders instead of using generic folder names which are sometimes misleading none A document editing feature for students to work on group projects Make it more intuitive Improve loading performance for users at home cant think of any From an instructor point of view t
246. unication and student assessment of learning student communication with each other tools Student evaluation student evaluation Student evaluation Student Evaluation student team creation and video sharing student to student communication Student to student communication student student communication amp learning assessment Student to student communications and student evaluations surveys and test set up and the student contact test creation chat Test Manager Test manager have not been able to score 1 2 point per answer in matching also do not know how to use the Pool section testing testing capabilities Testing via Blackboard and keeping track of grades via Blackboard Testing posting lectures Testing use of media course organization student feedback That depends on the courses I ll be assigned In general I m interested in keeping current on a variety of Internet resources The ability to put videos on it the features of blackboard that make it accessible to students who use assistive technologies There are subject headings that never use Some seem redundant and only confuse the student as to where something is located on line class use gradebook course materials 101 digital drop box assignments and a couple others but several are never used Students complain they have to search through the headings to find what they need although I generally have told them where to find an assignment t
247. urse with all the materials posted on one page or the other and sometimes access to the one with the material is difficult have teacher post grades on time When the discussion board is being used can email alerts be sent out notifying when comments are added At least the option to do so would be nice the ability to look at and use all classes blackboards but only be able to post on the blackboard for the classes that you are in make it more intuitive in terms of navigation Get rid of it use PowerSchool http www powerschool com cannot think of any suggetsions Nothing Consistency among instructors podcasts The main page seems overly crowded with information most of which have no interest in really only want to see the information that applies to the classes I m enrolled in would love to see that cleaned up simplified A simplified menu of links and classes Same as above Connect Blackboard to Webmail so we don t have to constantly sign into both See above 168 see above Professors use the grading section Link lab section gradebooks to general lecture gradebooks so that grades do not have to be uploaded twice not sure one class one link The ability to save material from previous terms especially for courses that span over a whole year Easier interaction like mentioned above think there should be a universal requirement that all assignments with their due dates are posted on blackboard along
248. use The university needs a system like Bb to deliver content If Bb isn t the best tool it s a tool and more faculty and students ought to use it Many faculty are not aware of it s improvements from their old first impressions Thank you for the Gradebook and Forum The forums is quite fast to Score now The uptime of Blackboard was been phenomenal Much better than ever in the past like the direction it is going There are faculty on the campus that have developed their own course management systems for student use We need to continully challege our students to help them to learn This is a tool that will only use for large lecture courses For smaller classes it adds an unecessary interface layer it is easier to maintain a course web page and communicate directly with students My impression is that students prefer the direct communication This is the first and only system l ve used and l ve found it very useful and generally easy to use Students in two of my three classes used it extensively In the third class students didn t use it and I m not sure why In part it had to do with styles of communication in that third class students kept in touch via cell phones much more regularly If that s a trend then allowing interface between blackboard and cell phones might be worth something This is the main means of communication with all of my students since most of them are distance students This sort of survey would be muc
249. use don t have a lot of time don t use Blackboard to its full potential It s very simple but would like to ramp it up some Provide a familiarization course was unaware of the capabilities of Blackboard until late in the term would have used it more extensively but by the time understood the capabilities it was no longer timely Provide a fool proof means for submitting grades from Blackboard to the Registrar s record Provide an evening orientation for all adjunct faculty Providing tests on blackboard seems inflexible and difficult Quite frankly less reliance on it React faster and with fewer keystrokes work more like EXCEL Files dropped into digital drop box must be retrieved one at a time think it would be helpful to be able to have students put submittals in folders per assignment etc where the entire folder could be moved copied or printed in one operation Redesign it to be much more intuitive and require fewer steps to do each task Reliability of access especially during the first hours and days of class for each term Remove it Install ANGEL or another quicker system Remove Java application system used to make changes to gradebook or when posting course documents The application sometimes takes too long to load See Q15 simplifying the control panel so the instructor finds the most commonly used 6 10 tools rather than 35 most of which are not in use Simply less cluttered Some menus a
250. use these features and they re not just unnecessary fluff but that students have come to expect and rely upon instructors use of the features namely grades and the ability to organize documents Some instructors use BB for posting materials but not for posting grades would prefer it be used for both Posting Midterm grades on blackboard to give you a better sense of where you are in the course having grades posted more frequently One place and one set of instructions for submitting class work Perhaps a Course Work Submittal tab The ability to be absolutely clear with their instructions and consistent in how they post to the Blackboard grades updated more frequently would like them to utilize it more and make sure that things they hand out in class are on the site it is hard if you lose instructions for something and you cannot find them easily Streamline the system for releasing assignments at a certain time The professors seem to have issues getting it to work Require posting of grades from assignments and tests in a timely fashion replace the instructors who do not communicate with their students with instructors who will Organization between formats many of my classes have multiple teachers who put things on blackboard in differing formats Actually using the my grades section in a meaningful way would be awesome had professors who used it very well didn t use it at all or used it in a confusing an ineffective m
251. useful N A i love bboard it has been very helpful just want all of the teachers to use it to its full potential If more teachers used it it would be helpful Needs more cowbell A todo list perhaps none This is a good system and more professors should use it The opening screen format is very confusing always go directly to courses because before that point don t understand the format or outline of anything on the screen Faster think that Blackboard is really not that great of a tool have had teachers that use it well to post assignments and keep us informed on the course which is nice Most professors however don t use the system well It is important and blackboard needs to be changed Ask instructors and students Everyone seems to hate it but needs it Switch to something good Require all instructors to use Blackboard It s pretty helpful if my instructors actually use it I ve never had a term where all of my instuctors use it As a whole feel it to be very helpful It seems that some professors don t use Blackboard to retain their proprietary rights to their material Interesting issue Centralized online file storage for group projects would be handy know it s available but none of the professors set it up for us One of my teachers accidentally made two Bb accounts for one class and always click on the wrong one It won t let me delete one like Blackboard overall Its nice to have lectu
252. uttons that tell where 104 materials and discussion groups are Easy transfer of previous terms material to a new section of a course Efficiency would be nice Rather than clicking OK twice to enter student grades why not advance to the next student Currently it goes back to gradebook eliminate it go to open source software Enable uploading folders so that one doesn t need to go through so many page refreshes which are the sloooow link in the process of depositing documents enabling posting such that must post to blackboard before reading the postings of others Entering grades for large classes can be difficult It would be great if the column containing the grades being entered was directly adjacent to the name column Error messages Faster response times Flle package download in readable format for retention of materials for community use use the name of the community not a number For my purposes it was very effective and relatively easy to use for on line classes make it easier to re open tests for individual students who have had power failures or computers that freeze during the time a test is open Also students often complain they have problems submitting large reports into the digital drop box Get a better help system A good on line manual with potential to have sections printed or saved for off line use is needed Present system is too complex Also improve the FAQ to be more searchable GEt rid of the pop up w
253. vey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The MEANS Procedure Q5 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 NOT using OSU Blackboard Mean Std Error Lower 95 CL for Mean Upper 95 CL for Mean 33 7192000 3 3196534 27 2001544 40 2382456 44 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The FREQ Procedure Q6 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quarter 2007 through winter quarter 2008 using OSU Blackboard Q6 Frequency Percent Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percent None 122 19 30 122 19 30 1 to 25 students 75 11 87 197 31 17 26 to 50 students 78 12 34 275 43 51 51 to 75 students 75 11 87 350 55 38 76 to 100 students 52 8 23 402 63 61 101 to 200 students 16 46 506 80 06 201 to 300 students 51 8 07 557 88 13 301 to 400 students 26 4 11 583 92 25 401 to 500 students 13 2 06 596 94 30 501 or more students 32 5 06 628 99 37 No response 4 0 63 632 Frequency Missing 207 100 00 45 Blackboard Review Survey Frequency Analysis For Completed Instructor Surveys The MEANS Procedure Q6 Approximately how many students did you instruct from spring quart
254. w about it The grade input feature and how to read it How to better navigate the system An overview of system features and how to distinguish between when to use BB and when to log in for other student online services emailing and discussion boards believe there is a lot to Blackboard that am not aware of so some type of overview of the options available would be great Operations are generally simple and easy i know how to use it well but have little experience none at this point in time only use it to access course material am not very familiar with it beyond that But don t feel like need it for any more Nothing feel know how to use the parts that really need It s fairly intuitive feel already know how to use Blackboard effectively Storing documents Other functions and tools that might not know about not quite sure comuacation I m not sure that need to learn more about it Nothing really but there may be tools on blackboard don t know about would like to know more about the things that may not be as abvious Communication possibilities Its pretty basic I ve used it for a year now and understand it well nor have had any problems love the online grading system The discussion board How to email your teachers and students in your class Customizing Why some instructors use it and others don t found it really good to be able to access required readings copies of labs and ass
255. want to learn more about virtual classroom and virtual chat which have tried to figure out but can t would also like to learn more about creating quizzes in Blackboard which have never tried Until read this questionnaire it never occurred to me to ask my students about how effective Blackboard was for them so will Most of them do not seem to realize that they can email each other until tell them use Group Pages in business and technical writing classes was hired one month before the term began and did not have time to learn how to use and effectively integrate Blackboard into my class need Blackboard 101 in the form of an online tutorial will be using it next term so need to learn how wish for some extra functions but I think understand and greatly appreciate what we do have would like to know more about Blackboard s grade calculation features It doesn t appear to have the capability to automatically drop the lowest grade from a set of grades Other classroom grade sheet programs have this capability and one would think that Blackboard would as well but if it does it isn4 t well documented would like to learn how to speed it up It currently takes an hour or more to post items Why does it go away once the next quarter begins Returning students can t find their grades 99 would like to learn if there are more efficient ways to post scores and material would like to learn more about gradebo
256. ways have a clear picture of there 106 grade and you cannot do that using your own program at home would like to learn how to speed it up It currently takes an hour or more to post items Why does it go away once the next quarter begins Returning students can t find their grades I d like to list the courses teach by number not alphabetically by title I d like the CURRENT terms courses to be listed first That list is long and search forever to find my current classes If not currently available a way to add all of the students grades for assignments in one step rather than entering a grade for one student and going through multiple steps and then repeating the process for each student improve the system so it doesn t crash or get overloaded so often In a large class it takes 40 seconds for the first page of the gradebook to load If I m looking for a student who isn t on the first page have to guess which page to go to and wait another 40 seconds for it to load The upload grades function is fragile It s inconvenient not to be able to add more than one gradebook item at a time In classes with multiple lectures plus a lab there are three Bb courses for each student The class average for items should NOT be reported to students in the gradebook you need to place the box for the entering the score immediately next to the student s name It s too easy to misplace grades as it stands now Incorporate homework and testing tools
257. with the course syllabus Put direct links to commonly used features such as grades on the front page Instant access to grades after tests Having all classes participate online instead of just a few instructors N A Make it more user friendly Access from other countries could be very good Because last sumer when was in Turkey it was not allowed to access to the Blackboard think this is a crucial problem More teachers should use it Automatically show any upgrade Ability to access classes from previous terms Have the ability to save contacts from previous classes Access information for classes your not currently enrolled in would make the entrance page after you log in more appealing it seems very cluttered at the moment Set up for e mail alerts for new postings such as grades or lecture material did not use Blackboard system Not continually badger someone until they take your stupid survey The software running Blackboard should be open source when entering grades the process is slow for individual entries updates Maybe reducing the number of mouse clicks or parsing the last names into smaller groups instead of searching the entire class list could be implemented would like to be able to see multiple threads of a discussion in the same screen and be able to respond in the same multi thread screen dont know The ability to allow non OSU students faculty to have a log in beyod guest Accessing cours
258. y don t check it regularly and miss info about their responsibilities and don t want to send them email everytime for every announcement want to post Easier ability to upload grades to university Easier instructions more user friendly easier manipulation of gradebook Easier rollover of course content easier to add auditors or others interested in checking out the course including a way to add people for a short time on the discussion board easier to link excel spreadsheets with grades into the BB system easier transfers of previous courses Easier use of gradebook ease in moving around ease in manually entering grades eliminate it go to open source software enable more cross talk between the two different sections of my class enabling posting such that must post to blackboard before reading the postings of others face to face tutorials where we could learn about other blackboard capabilities Faster response times Find a way to get all faculty to use Blackboard Fix the printing problem or make it less ambiguous Flexible manipulation of rows and columns format and navigation of discussion board From the support mail get it looks like it has a reliability problem compared to the COE classroom tools available at no extra cost Get a different system Get a much better instruction manual for instructors OSU could actually do this and the current instruction manual is woefully inadequate Give instructor s more flexi
259. y improve the OSU Blackboard system Var 39 Fmt A500 Col 1296 1795 Name Q17 AM Q17 If you could make only one suggestion on how to improve the Blackboard system what would it be Var 40 Fmt A500 Col 1796 2295 Name Q18 AN Q18 What else would you like to say about OSU Blackboard or about your needs for a course management system in general 78 79 APPENDIX D 2 STUDENT CODEBOOK Codebook Name BLACKBOARD 2007 STUDENTS Date June 10 2008 Number of Variables in Codebook 36 Data Record Length 4680 Var 1 Fmt N2 Col 1 2 Name QI A Q1 What is your current class standing 1 Freshman 6 Doctorate 2 Sophomore 7 Other lt i gt Describe lt i gt 3 Junior 8 Non degree 4 Senior 9 Post bac 5 Masters 10 Professional Var 2 Fmt A250 Col 3 252 Name Q1 Other B Other Var 3 Fmt N3 Col 253 255 Name Q2 C Q2 In which program is your major course of study If you have a dual major or cannot find your major in the list provided please check Other at the end of the drop down list and type your response in the box below 01 Actuarial Science O02 Aerospace Studies 03 Agricultural Business Management 04 Agricultural Economics 05 Agricultural Sciences 06 Air Force Studies 07 Animal Sciences 08 Anthropology 09 Applied Health 10 Art History 11 Athletic Administration 12 Biological Engineering 13 Botany 14 Business Administration 15 Chemistry 16 Chinese 17 Communication 18 Community
260. y like being able to look at the class syllabus whenever need to have a tendency to lose them over the course of the term but if they are on Blackboard can easily find them sometimes find so much course material scattered what seems like all over the BB that am afraid will miss something Maybe material could be simplified so that our assignments are located in just assignments etc Also that all instructors follow the same procedure so that there is consistency overall a positive experience i only had one class to manage though looks like you did some good usability work on this system keep at it Its functional but not great like using Blackboard because it is a faster and easier way to obtain course information would not change anything No other comments very effective when the teacher uses it in addition to the class Lecture notes assignments and course grades are a must We have a similar system in place in my home university Lancaster University United Kingdom but feel that Blackboard is superior to our system was very impressed when first came to OSU It would be easier to view attachments posted in the system rather than having to download responses and manage them separately It s a very useful system like it feel that it is a very useful tool in education Nothing really have an easy time using Blackboard and have never really had trouble searching what am looking for Bl

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