Blackboard and eLearning Technologies Support

All Clark College faculty and staff may have a Blackboard account for use with their courses, organizations and/or departments. For Bb user account requests, Bb shell requests, course enrollment merge requests, Elluminate accounts, Evaluation Kit information, publisher provided course cartridge issues and related eLearning technical support issues, contact eLearning Systems Administrator, Scott Coffie at scoffie@clark.edu or 360.992.2405 or visit the Smart Penguin Blackboard Tech Blog for tech tips and solutions for you and your students.

Blackboard and eLearning Technologies Training

Training and instructional design related to the use of eLearning technologies is available through the eLearning department by contacting eLearning Sr. Instructional Designer, Kathy Chatfield at kchatfield@clark.edu or 360.992.2167.

eLearning Information Center (eLInC)

The eLearning Information Center (eLInC) is available within your Blackboard account. eLInC is filled with resources, information, training, grading rubrics, pedagogical practices, learning activity ideas, and much more. For more information, contact the eLearning department at eLearning@clark.edu or 360.992.2654.

Blackboard Shells and Requests

Approximately ten days prior to the start of each quarter, a Blackboard shell is created for each course section and faculty teaching courses with either DL or HY section letters are added.  Registered students are then populated into appropriate shells using a special data snapshot process. During the first ten days of class, the snapshot process (run twice daily) will add or drop users as new information is received from registration.  After that, all users must be manually added or removed (or temporarily disabled in non-payment cases) - contact scoffie@clark.edu. All faculty using Blackboard for face-to-face course sections should submit a Bb shell request, preferably prior to the start of the quarter.

5-30 days before start of quarter
Submit shell requests for any non-DL or non-HY section courses (see Blackboard Shell Request above). Submit all course enrollment merge requests via email to scoffie@clark.edu.

Up to 5 days prior to start of a quarter
Schedule a meeting with the eLearning Instructional Designer for assistance in developing your course content and structure, applying eLearning pedagogy and technologies, and learning about Blackboard.

After new quarter shell has been delivered to your Bb account
Proceed with Course Copy and other course preparation.

By noon on first day of quarter
Make Blackboard course shell Available to students.

At end of quarter
Record official student grades through Instructor Briefcase and download a personal Excel version of your Bb grade book using the Download Grades tool inside the Bb grade book. Contact the Registration department for more information about posting grades via Instructor Briefcase.

Approximately 1 week after end of quarter
Make your Blackboard course shells Unavailable.

Clark College eLearning Blog

Visit eLearning's new blog, The eLog, to share your ideas, ask questions, and explore what is happening in the world of eLearning.  This site will bring you the latest information from the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges regarding distributed education, instructional technology, and various state-wide initiatives that may be of direct benefit to Clark College.  The eLearning Department has a great team of individuals who will be sharing their expertise on this site as well.  Click the image below to join us!