Are you ready?

1. Check out the new eLearning@CUHK website for pedagogical and content specific tips on teaching with technology and where you can get support. Ideas include but not limited to the following:
1. Use Blackboard (or KEEP) to support your teaching?
2. Record lectures and make them available to students after class? How about introductory videos before class?
3. Engage students with online polling in the classroom?
4. Flip the classroom?
5. Webinars?
6. Never forget Copyright!

Coffee break

1. Get ready the Blackboard courses for your 2018-19 courses
1. Add TAs / Support Staff so that you can work together
2. (Optional) Re-use course content from last year? Course copy (remember to review and update "dates")
3. Add slides, readings, and videos
4. Set up forums, assignments (need to use VeriGuide for plagiarism checking?), online tests, grade center (have students be added?), and more
5. Set course entry page
6. Preview the course as students
2. Open the Blackboard courses for student access
1. Make the course available to students
2. Post an announcement

Blackboard Course User Management

1. Would like to add TAs? Co-teachers? Sit-in students? Audit students? CUHK User Management Tool
2. Would like to add users to a large number of Blackboard courses? Batch Enrollment Request
3. Need access to a Blackboard course?  If you are the course TAs or the course supporting staff, Course Access Request

Blackboard Course Management

4. Would like to use ONE Blackboard course to serve multiple class sections? Course Combine Request
5. Would like to have a Blackboard course for teaching non-CUSIS listed courses? Non-CUSIS Course Request
6. Need to copy content from the course template to a large number of Blackboard courses? Batch Copy Course Request

Lecture Recording using Panopto

7. What if upload of my lecture recording cannot complete? Backup the local files and send them to us using O365 OneDrive.
8. Can I install the Panopto Recorder Software on my devices? Sure

More FAQs

9. Blackboard
10. Panopto

Blackboard

1. The “Courses” section has a new look! Your Blackboard courses are now grouped by “Terms”.
2. New “Support Center” button.  Have you tried clicking on the blue “?” icon floating on the bottom right corner of your Blackboard course pages (video demo)?.
3. You can now “Self-Enroll” into our Blackboard Online Training courses. 

Panopto Video Service

4. Upgraded to Version 5.6.  Check out the release notes for new features.
5. Content migration from Echo360 to Panopto has completed. 
1. If you would like to re-use the content, use Batch Copy and Move to copy the migrated content into your 2018-19 course video folders by August 31, 2019.
2. If you would like to download the videos for offline backup, you may use the RSS feed to get the video download URLs.

Users are reminded to back up any materials they would like to keep local copies for their future reference before the system termination date.

Should you have any questions, please email ITSC eLearning Support at elearning@cuhk.edu.hk.

Stay Tuned!

• Qualtrics pilot (unlimited surveys for all staff and student users)
• Accessibility add-on to Blackboard under consideration
• VeriGuide Integration with Blackboard under active development
• Innovation Teaching and Learning Expo 2018 on Dec 7 (Friday)

Call for Submission (Deadline: August 31)

Apply for up to HK$100,000 to fund courseware development for your courses.

Happy School!