SDU is leading in e-learning and now as one of the first universities in Europa SDU can provide e-learning via smartphones and other mobile units.
E-learn.sdu.dk – also known as Blackboard – is available from your smartphone or iPad via the Blackboard Mobile Learn application. Blackboard Mobile Learn provides students and staff with the option to access SDU courses from their Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or BlackBerry device.
The current version of the app gives users these functions:
Tasks: New tasks has to be made in the browser, but can be made personally for the student or for a whole group. In the app you can start, finish and restart the tasks.
Announcements: As teacher you can make new announcements from the app, and students can read them from the add.
Discussion fora: New discussions can be added, responded to and different kinds of files and pictures etc. can be uploaded from the application.
Blogs: Look like small post-it notes in the application and the feature functions very well. You can easily read, post and add new subjects.
Media: Students can view files, music, videos and pictures uploaded by the teacher directly from the mobile device.
Journals: are longer texts, which students can post for the teacher or other students to view and comment upon. Journals are also available both personally for the student and for the groups.
Push notifications: Now students and teachers can get push notifications on their mobile device whenever there is something new happening in one of their courses. You chose yourself which notifications you want, e.g. if you only want a notification when there is a new announcement in a specific course.
Some extra tips for the app:
- When pressing "Dashboard" you will be able to to see day by day which tasks you have to make, and using Android, there is even a widget from where you can access the dashboard directly.
- If you mark a course with a little star, you will be able to find it in your "favourites" tap.
- When the app is active, you have the possibility to share photos etc. directly into Blackboard
- The app is constantly being upgraded, and new functions are added all the time.
View the Blackboard iPad promotion video on e-learning
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