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1. Using Our Blackboard Course
Hybrid Courses
(See different walkthrough for face-to-face courses)

2. What is a Hybrid Course?
• Hybrid course work under varying definitions at
different colleges, but Collin defines its hybrid
courses as a cross between an online course and a
traditional face-to-face course, with part of the
class meeting online for one day and in class for
another day during the class week.
• If yours is a hybrid class, your schedule will
indicate it and the course will only meet
once/twice a week for either 50mins or 1.2hrs. If
your course meets more than this, you are
probably not enrolled in an official hybrid class—
meaning this power point is not for you.

3. Hybrid Course
• If you are in a hybrid course, you will need to
login to the online portion of our course
during the designated time at least once (but
likely more frequently) each class week (see
our syllabus) and complete the discussion,
readings, and activities housed there. The
following slides will teach you how to navigate
our course, which is slightly different from a
regular Blackboard course shell.

4. Start Here

5. Getting Started…
• Click to “Access
Blackboard”
• If you need help, call
972.377.1777
• Next: Select our class
(make sure you are
looking at the correct
course number and
section)

6. Select the four areas circled in GREEN and review them carefully….
Here Last
Start Here
Here Next

7. Four Major Areas
• Start Here: you will find basic course information,
your course calendar, and syllabus here.
• Learning Modules: this will be the most used
area; readings and assignments will be stored and
submitted here by week.
• My Grades: your grades and comments can be
found and reviewed here.
• Discussion: you will post discussions enries and
comments here

8. Click Week 1
List of readings
and assignments
for the week.
Make sure to
click “Week,” not
the folder icon.

9. This is an example of a power
point or PDF reading
assignment.

10. Access
discussion
boards

11. Discussions & Major Assignments
• Discussion board occurs almost every week for
a hybrid class in Blackboard. The assignment
for the discussion board is at the end of the
power point lecture under a given “week.”
• Essay drop-boxes and other major
assignments are also available under the week
they are due (see next slide for example).

12. Click “view/complete” and follow instructions to submit essay assignment….

13. End.