My Experience of Using Blackboard System
I have to admit that I don’t log in Blackboard very often due to the following reasons. First, few teachers are using it as an assistant course tool. The phenomenon makes Blackboard detached to its expected purpose, to manage various kinds of materials related to the subjects we take. Furthermore, the design of its user interface is confusing. For example, the icons “Communication” and “Tools” are duplicated in the left-hand side column. Besides, there is a “Calendar” function in Blackboard system. In my point of view, “Calendar” should function as a “Reminder”. After all, it is why we count on a Calendar application, to remind us beforehand in case we inadvertently forget the pre-scheduled event. So it seems ridiculous to me that the “Calendar” in Blackboard System has no such function. The edit function of Blackboard is even a greater disappointment. The format can’t get right each time I tried to copy the content from Word into our Blackboard. The item symbols are either missing or misplaced. In the end, you have to waste a lot of time modifying the layout of the copied content. Deficient though Blackboard may be, its value and intention of trying to integrate institutional-wide learning resources shouldn’t be disdained. To ensure the life-span of Blackboard, I think it is very important that the school could arrange periodic evaluation as soon as possible. No design is born to be perfect, it is crucial to have a good and sound evaluation system to detect the potential and existing problems so that the designers could tweak the design bit by bit. Here I’d like to point out several things that might be useful in improving our Blackboard System. The “Calendar” feature should allow users to set the reminding function. For instance, I could ask the system to remind me 3 days before a pre-scheduled event by sending me a notice to my email box. When teachers post important announcements or require students to join a discussion, the system could check in every few days and automatically send a reminding message to those students who haven’t logged in to respond. In addition, I think it is a good idea that Blackboard could integrate with our library system. All the books I borrowed are listed in my blackboard account with deadline beside. Whenever there are new coming books related to the ones I ever borrowed, Blackboard system could show such information which, I believe, would be quite beneficial to graduate students in conducting their researches. Blackboard should strive to accommodate and manage various aspects of the school learning environment to truly become a dominant LMS on campus.
I have to admit that I don’t log in Blackboard very often due to the following reasons. First, few teachers are using it as an assistant course tool. The phenomenon makes Blackboard detached to its expected purpose, to manage various kinds of materials related to the subjects we take. Furthermore, the design of its user interface is confusing. For example, the icons “Communication” and “Tools” are duplicated in the left-hand side column. Besides, there is a “Calendar” function in Blackboard system. In my point of view, “Calendar” should function as a “Reminder”. After all, it is why we count on a Calendar application, to remind us beforehand in case we inadvertently forget the pre-scheduled event. So it seems ridiculous to me that the “Calendar” in Blackboard System has no such function. The edit function of Blackboard is even a greater disappointment. The format can’t get right each time I tried to copy the content from Word into our Blackboard. The item symbols are either missing or misplaced. In the end, you have to waste a lot of time modifying the layout of the copied content. Deficient though Blackboard may be, its value and intention of trying to integrate institutional-wide learning resources shouldn’t be disdained. To ensure the life-span of Blackboard, I think it is very important that the school could arrange periodic evaluation as soon as possible. No design is born to be perfect, it is crucial to have a good and sound evaluation system to detect the potential and existing problems so that the designers could tweak the design bit by bit. Here I’d like to point out several things that might be useful in improving our Blackboard System. The “Calendar” feature should allow users to set the reminding function. For instance, I could ask the system to remind me 3 days before a pre-scheduled event by sending me a notice to my email box. When teachers post important announcements or require students to join a discussion, the system could check in every few days and automatically send a reminding message to those students who haven’t logged in to respond. In addition, I think it is a good idea that Blackboard could integrate with our library system. All the books I borrowed are listed in my blackboard account with deadline beside. Whenever there are new coming books related to the ones I ever borrowed, Blackboard system could show such information which, I believe, would be quite beneficial to graduate students in conducting their researches. Blackboard should strive to accommodate and manage various aspects of the school learning environment to truly become a dominant LMS on campus.
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