Distant education in Harper Collagehttp://goforward.harpercollege.edu/page.cfm?p=2255
Harper College is a two-year community college in Palatine, Illinois in United States. The College was established by referendum in 1965, and in 1971, Harper's construction was finished. It is named for Dr. William Rainey Harper, a pioneer in the junior college movement in the United States and the first president of the University of Chicago.Harper College offers Distance education courses. It uses a blackboard as a course management system. A blackboard is a Web site for e-learning course. It is used to display a course syllabus, schedule, assignments, discussion boards, quizzes, and other course-related documents and storing documents such as the syllabus, assignment information, handouts, and so on. Blackboard offers features to promote the communication that's needed to build a community. These features are:
Discussion Board:Discussion board enables the students and the instructor to discuss issues and exchange ideas in asynchronous communication.
Collaboration Chat areas:There are two types of chats applications: a Lightweight Chat and Virtual "Lecture Hall" Classroom. Chats provide the opportunity for synchronous communication.In addition to communication-related features such as Discussion Boards and Chats, Blackboard courses may provide a variety of activities for students like:
Linked Assignments:A linked assignment is "linked" to the Blackboard Gradebook. The instructor may write comments for the learner's assignments.
Digital Dropbox:The Digital Dropbox can be used by instructors and students to exchange files. Learner can upload a document (such as a Word or PowerPoint document) to the Digital Dropbox so that it can be accessed by both learner and instructor. The instructor can then downloads the file, add comments to it, and send it back to the learner's Digital Dropbox.
Quizzes
Gradebook:Students can check their grades at any time using gradebook. Most instructors use the Blackboard gradebook to record learner’s grades and for giving feedback.
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