CLEW to Blackboard Tool List

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Purpose
	CLEW				Blackboard
Course Design	Lessons		Organize content for effective presentation to students		Learning Modules
					Lesson Plans
	Syllabus		To make the course syllabus easy to find		Syllabus
	Enter Student View		To see the course just as a student would		Enter Student Preview
Communications	Announcements		Communicate important messages with all students		Announcements
	Email		Send an email		Email
	Email Instructor		Send an email to the instructor only		(Email)
			Within-course text messages		Course Messages
Interactive Tools	Forums		Asynchronous threaded discussions		Discussion Board
	Virtual Classroom		Conducting online synchronous classes (through Blackboard)		Blackboard Collaborate
			Synchronous chat with drawing capacity		Whiteboard
			Private journal (only instructor and students can see)		Journal
			Blog, available to instructor and students		Blogs
Grading	Grade book		Recording, tracking, and calculating all grades		Grade Centre
	Drop Box		For submitting assignments		Submission (included in assessment tool)
	Feedback		Where student grades are posted		My Grades
Assessment	Quizzes and Tests II		Multiple Choice Questions. (Note BB supports many types)		Test
	Poll		Ungraded Multiple Choice Questions		Survey
	Assignment		Longer Written Assignments		Assignment
			Automated distribution of assignments for peer or self-review		Self and Peer Assessment
			Built-in tool for portfolio design		Course Portfolios
			Plagiarism detection		Safe Assign
Administration	Resources		Repository of course content files		Content Collection
	Roster		List of Participants		Users
	Sections		Subdividing a class for group work or TA assignments, etc.		Groups
	Site Stats		Tracking analytic data on usage		Course Reports
			Monitoring student performance		Performance Dashboard
	Site Editor		Most of the main settings		Control Panel