{"id":63,"date":"2016-06-22T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/?p=63"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:27:45","slug":"a-student-view-of-your-blackboard-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/2016\/06\/22\/a-student-view-of-your-blackboard-course\/","title":{"rendered":"A student view of your Blackboard course"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Blackboard has a useful function &#8211; Edit Mode &#8211; which allows you to get an idea of what your Blackboard course looks like to students. You can find the Edit Mode button in the top right of any page on your course:<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/files\/2016\/05\/editmode.jpg\" alt=\"edit mode button\" width=\"228\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>However, Edit Mode doesn&#8217;t allow you to fully experience your Blackboard course as a student. To do that, use the Student Preview mode.<\/h5>\n<h5>Next to the Edit Mode button is the &#8216;eye&#8217; symbol for full Student Preview mode. Using this feature gives you a more accurate picture of what your course looks like to a student,\u00a0by creating\u00a0a student account\u00a0for you.\u00a0This allows you review your course content and test out course features.<\/h5>\n<h5>You can:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>complete quizzes<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Upload assignments<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Write blog posts<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Create journal entries<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>You can choose to keep any data entered, or delete it when you close the Student Preview mode.<\/h5>\n<h5>Watch the video to see how to do this.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IGIBFiAC3tA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackboard has a useful function &#8211; Edit Mode &#8211; which allows you to get an idea of what your Blackboard course looks like to students. You can find the Edit Mode button in the top right of any page on your course: &nbsp; However, Edit Mode doesn&#8217;t allow you to fully experience your Blackboard course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uoljam-microlearning","tag-blackboard","tag-vle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}