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hello everyone welcome to Ten 4 tech my name is Brynan Blue
Blackboard Mobile learn brings your courses to life in new ways
which makes it easier for you to keep up with all of your courses by letting you
access them whenever
and wherever you want
now on all carriers and WIFI
let's take a look at how blackboard mobile learn is now accessible on your android
device
blackboard mobile learn for android brings much of my blackboard learn content right to my
android phone
i would download the application from the android market place
and within the application search for my university in this case monument university
once i connect to my university system im going to liege in with my regular user name and
password
i can even have the device remember my username and password if i wanted to
so im going to log in and im going to be presented with the classes that i normally see
when i login on my PC computer or wherever else i log into blackboard
so once i log in you can see that i have my class that im enrolled in
and the classes that im teaching
now i can scroll through the courses i can maybe
uh... selected course say biology of insects before i want to select one course
though i might wanna see what i have to do across all my different courses
so i can hit the menu button
and i can see the dashboard
the dashboard is gonna be like i said all the things that i need to do by date
so i can very quickly see if there's anything i need
right away for these classes
but lets hop into one class lets go into my biology of insects class
here you see hte normal class hierarchy that you would see if you logged into
blackboard anywhere else so at the top im going to log into my announcements and see how my professors set it up
in this example
this is great to have announcements on the go because
when do you need announcements the most when you're away from your computer when you're away from your
work station
very quick and easy way to get the content that you need in any situation
im also able to checkout assignments and handouts on the go or different types of media
that my professor their uploaded to our learn course
you know whether it's a PDF that i'm going to
actually download to my device here on android or view it in the
browser
PDF word doc power point excel file all these different types of dockument types
are very easily displayed through the mobile application in addition to many
different types of videos
with blackboard mobile learn for android didn't just want to make the student
experience and the faculty experience one way
we really want to make sure that students can also be participating with
their courses
in the fact that there not just consuming data but their also interacting
so blogs and discussions were natural for mobile learn
in the blogs here we can actually go in read blog post
we can add comments to the blog posts right here
so i can go in as a student
add a comment
i agree
and i could post that to my blog
also discussions are huge on-the-go
the ability for students not only to just read discussion threads and read replies from
their peers you know obviously that's really important but what's fundamental and you
know
kind of obvious for discussion is the idea that you should be able to participate
wherever you are so if you have a novel thought in you know some context that
doesn't allow you to be at your desktop computer
you should be able to treat contribute so
you know within my discussion i'm able to start a new thread if i'm allowed to
you know say i have questions on the homework or the upcoming coming test
i can't even go into a specific thread and actually apply to what my fellow
peers have been replying to
uh... you know
start a new reply somewhere
now one of the new features that we've added in is the ability to not only reply in text but also
to add an attachment from my photo gallery or from my camera
i can take high-definition video in
and uh... high rez photos from this device so i should be able to go in here and from my
gallery browse different photos that i may want to add to my discussion threads
now not only can we do that from within the mobile learn application
but if im on my android
and i'm back at the home screen or in my photo library here
i can actually go in
and find a photo that i'm you know
looking at here in my gallery outside of the application and this is one of the neat features that we
we were able to utilize by building natively this is a uh
you know a function of the Android operating system system
i can click this picture that i want to look at
and i can actually share the photo
and you know blackboard learn is one of the ways that i could share this
photo
another great thing about android
we can see build in widgets so if i go to the home screen a widget is basically
a news feed of the information that i may need something that we have incorporated into
our application
so i can go in and uh...
hit menu here
add a certain feature to my wallpaper to my main screen at a widget
and i can go in and select from what uh... application i want that so i gonna use
my mobile learn dashboard as my widget so that i
can get all my new information
once i inthenticat with the application with some more time then i'll be able to
feed that data right there back to my dashboard excuse me my widget at any
point when ever i open my phone
im logged in and im going to get that really portent information right there on my home screen
another new featured added to the application is the idea of favorites
so you know i can favorite two three of my classes say i have a lot of different class at one time
and i can have those favorites very readily available so alot schools will allow
a student to uh
be able able to access every single course
that they have ever been enrolled in
so this is a really simple way you can only have your top four courses really
quickly available when you need them
in addition to favorites on the top bar here you can also see organizations
go in and you know get some information about student government basketball team
and some similar information to what we have you know in our courses and remember this is again information
that we're pulling
from your letter instant
so whether they're announcements discussions roster other tools its all
gonna be there on your mobile application
i think one thing that we really havent talked about is really some of the courses
that the uh...
functionality for instructors
so as an instructor im able to do a few more things on my mobile device one of which
i think is extremely important is the idea of adding announcements on the go
so you know i'm running late for class or the location of class has been moved
or
i need to remind the students at the last minute to bring a specific books to class
i can go into the announcements and i can actually add that announcement from my android and that will
get pushed to their iphone their android blackberry ipad
on their desktop computers it doesn't matter
their going to get this announcement that i made and sent out to everybody
in addition
professes able to act content items like handouts
so i go into my handouts here and from my device i can add a content item whether
its in my gallery or another area throughout my device
so these are some great functionalities that are really
android specific
that were able to harness because of the operating system and the differences between
you know the android operating system versus the IOS operating system versus the
blackberry operating system
its very important for us that we can leverage these technological differences
to really create a user experience that specific
to the end user
finally to sum up a few more features that we have in here how you know students can
look at their grades students can look at their journals for class
students can also check out their tasks and and and another
way be able to interact their task so
you know i can see what i need to do and i can also update that i am you know
currently on my field trip
and that i am finished with it you know that im restarting it
so as you can see we have a lot of functionalities backed in here that really makes
this application not just a medium to consume information
but also a way in which students and professors can interact
with their courses wherever they are at no matter what their situation
now you can see
just how powerful blackboard mobile learn on your android device truly is be on the
lookout for more videos as we will show you how to access blackboard mobile on your
blackberry and your IOS device
thank you for joining us today on Ten 4 Tech
my name is Brynan Blue and remember it's really not that hard