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Category listing for Communication
Using Announcements in MyECU
Use announcements to post important messages and information such as deadlines, changes, corrections, clarifications, and schedules. Here is a quick guide on how to add and modify annoucements in your MyECU site.
Help and Support for Elluminate Live
There are a number of resources available from Elluminate. These are available as either pre-recorded Elluminate sessions or as documents that are downloadable from the site and include the following:
How to set up a discussion forum in a MyECU site
The Discussion Board is a communication tool that can be used to enhance a MyECU unit or community site.
Each discussion topic is set up as an individual forum and conversations are grouped in threads that contain a main posting and all related replies.
Follow these instructions to create a Discussion Board Forum.
Students: How to use the Digital Drop Box in MyECU
If your lecturer/tutor uses the Digital Dropbox tool for assignment submission, the following instructions will guide you through the steps you will need to follow in order to make an assignment submission using this tool.
Staff Tip: Using the Digital Drop Box in MyECU
Blackboard has two tools that allow students to securely submit their work to instructors:
- Digital Dropbox
- Assignment Tool
Files submitted using either the Digital Dropbox or the Assignment Tool are stored on Blackboard and are accessible only by those with Control Panel access (Instructors, Teaching Assistants, and Graders).
Web collaboration technologies trial at ECU
Starting in semester 2, The Centre for learning and teaching will be conducting a 12 month trial of web collaborative technologies in order to evaluate their educational effectiveness and to make recommendations about future purchasing.
Staff Tip: Managing Groups in MyECU with the Advanced Group Management tool
The advanced group management add in for blackboard is now available. This tool makes the management of groups within a MyECU site much easier than the default Blackboard group manager. The main improvement is with the ability to assign or remove people from groups all on one page.
Staff Tip: Using Groups in MyECU
The Manage Groups page allows lecturers or tutors to create study or project groups within MyECU sites.
Sending emails via MyECU
Email can be sent by students and staff who participate in a unit or community site from the Send Email page.
Accessing MyECU Blogs
Your Lecturer or Tutor may have set up blogs in your site for you to use.
In MyECU there are a two different types of blog:
Student Tip: How to take part in a discussion forum in MyECU
A few steps to get started with discussion forums...
General Tip: Using MyECU Discussion Boards
The Discussion Board is a communication tool that can be used to enhance a MyECU unit or community site.