It’s hard to believe that just a few short months ago, we were onboarding our entire system around the use of Blackboard as our primary learning management system. As part of this work, we identified a need to create Blackboard shells for all of our secondary courses. A shell is a course that would house curricular materials and resources and model the tools and features within Blackboard keeping the student as the end-user in mind.
I’m excited to say that we’ve successfully completed our first round of shells! We’ve built the middle school Math, Science, Literacy, and Art courses. A HUGE thank you to the teachers and coaches who helped to facilitate the development of these classes. It was an incredibly collaborative effort, and as a result of each school’s focus on Blackboard, building out the courses was not as overwhelming as we thought it would be at the beginning of the year.
Over the course of the next three months, we’ll be focusing on creating the high school Science, English, Math, Art, Music, and Physical Education course shells.
All of our teachers are working tirelessly to develop their Blackboard skills and pages. Thank you. Shells are not designed to replace the courses you’ve worked so hard to create. Rather, they will serve to assist our new teachers or teachers who are new to teaching a specific course, and they’ll also aid us in our curriculum revision process as we go to update courses. Whatever is created in the shell can be easily layered into any existing Blackboard course, so no need to worry that you’ll have to start from scratch when the shells are complete.
We look forward to this continued work!
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