We heard your feedback and suggestions and applied them to the Spring course templates in Bb. Features were added to the fall template along with support scaffolding for faculty and students.

A number of faculty find the announcements tool critical for communicating with students. You’ll now see an Announcements link in the course menu. If you want to post content or even dabble with hybrid instruction check out the Course Materials link. We’ve added sample content folders structured to support online, hybrid, and flipped content models. In the content area we have support materials to help instructors structure content and activities in alignment with Online Learning Consortium and Quality Matters standards and mirrors the structure used for all online courses offered through the College of Professional and Continuing Education.

We’ve also designed a template for Architecture, based on the department’s needs for specific tools and supports. The new template has a menu item for NuVu Studio – a tool supporting high resolution media and studio instruction along with instructions to the faculty on how to set up NuVu for their courses. Supports for students, such as links to department specific LibGuides are now included in this template.

New Architecture course template for Blackboard

If your department needs more structure, links to specific tools used universally in your discipline or discipline specific supports, please invite us (lit@wit.edu) to a department meeting to discuss the possibility of a custom template for your department.

Keep the feedback and suggestions coming, we envision fine tuning Bb course templates each semester!