
Advanced Instructional Media Faculty Computer Lab
Distance Education and Instructional Support
Law Center, Sublevel 1
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
Voice (803) 777-2897/Fax (803) 777-6396
E-Mail aim@sc.edu
Blackboard Features
Blackboard is an easy to use program that has excellent built-in tools for communication and for putting course content on the Web.
Included are Web-based course management and delivery of:
- course announcements
- course information
- staff information
- course documents
- assignments
- communications tools including email, discussion forums with threaded discussions, virtual chatting, personal web pages for students, online class roster
- links to external web resources for students
- instructor control panel for entering and editing course content, creating quizzes and surveys, on-line gradebook
- student tools including a digital drop box, assignment and test grade checking, and documentation for Blackboard
- assessment tools including quizzes, surveys, and course statistics
- a calendar of institutional and course events
Getting Started With Blackboard | AIM Home Page
This page updated 6 February 2002 by AIM@sc.edu.
This page copyright © 2002, the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina.
URL http://www.sc.edu/Blackboard/features.html