Blackboard^

Blackboard ""MyWebCT"

My Announcements
My Calendar
My Courses
My Tasks

Structure of Blackboard^

Side Navigation includes the following:

Tools box
Refresh/Detail View box
Control Panel box
Comprehensive overview of Blackboard menus: eg. Content Areas, Course Tools, Course Options, User Management, Assessment and Help

Differences with Tools^

Announcements
add vocal message to announcements

Staff Information
similar to Syllabus, but only info related to staff

Tasks
Send Email

Discussion Board
use of threads
collect feature, similar to Create Printable View, but no select all - need to manually select all messages

collaboration
not sure what it is

Glossary Manager
Course Portfolio
Copy Files to Collection
External Link Check

no clear idea of how groups work

Assignments

looks similar to assignment dropbox

Course Documents

summary of course documents
similar to a folder

Gradebook
download and upload grades feature

Groups
not clear how groups work

Link to web pages from the Tool bar

Modules

similar to Learning Modules


Comments on Blackboard

I wonder if WebCT was developed first - threading is similar.