Navigate 3.1.2 Creation and Investigation into Courses Quest

COURSE SITES



I selected Blackboard Course Sites because it is similar to the LMS that is currently used at my school.  I found this application to be completely structured and simple to follow.  First of all, I loved the fact that I did not have to download anything to my computer to use this.  I created an account and was able to create a course with announcements, syllabus, lessons and lesson links, discussion questions, and assessments that could be tied to a grade book if I included a roster.  I am shocked that this is free and have no doubt that I could teach an online  class using just this application.  Images were easy to upload and I really needed them for my announcement/welcome page and for my geometry discussion questions.  I was able to reorder my content when I put a lesson in the wrong place.  There is a calendar, but I did not use it since there were alerts for due dates and past due assignments. 
There is a class information page where I was able to upload a recorded lesson where I actually went through the course and gave a quick glimpse of how my students could find everything and how to use the LMS for their class.  I was able to easily upload my syllabus and AUP for the class as documents. In the content section, I uploaded several videos for my topic, along with three lessons - a link to Holt lessons, learnzillion lessons, and a softchalk lesson that I created earlier in the year.  At the end of my unit, I was able to create a quiz in the site that automatically grades the activity.  I love this program and thrilled to find something out there that is free, simple to use, and that does not have to be downloaded.
I have included some slide/photos of my created pages on a mini-unit I did for 7th grade math equations and inequalities.  Here is the url, and I set it for public view, but I am not sure if it will require a student log on.... https://www.coursesites.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_257039_1%26url%3D