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Moodle and Blackboard Terminology

Terminology Highlights between Moodle and Blackboard

If your institution has migrated from Moodle to Blackboard, you’ll encounter some terminology differences. We’ve highlighted some of Blackboard's key features to get you started customizing your courses in Blackboard.

Table 38. A table of Moodle and Blackboard terminology

Moodle Terminology

Blackboard Terminology

Highlights

Announcements

Announcements

  • Students are prompted with a pop-up when they first enter a course if there is a new announcement.

  • Instructors can see the number of students who have viewed the announcement.

  • Announcements are conveniently located at the top of the course for improved visibility.

Attendance

Attendance

  • Instructors can quickly take attendance without having to set up Attendance Registers and Sessions.

  • Instructors using Class Collaborate can have attendance information from Class Collaborate Sessions automatically feed into the attendance tool in Blackboard.

Assignment

Assignment

  • Instructors can label assignments as formative to help set expectations for learners.

  • Instructors have a consistent authoring experience when creating assignments and tests.

  • Instructors can enable SafeAssign to check submissions for originality.

Book

Learning Module

  • Students can easily navigate to the next or previous item.

  • Students can see the number of items they need to complete and the items they have completed so far.

  • Instructors can personalize Learning Modules by uploading or selecting a custom image thumbnail.

  • Instructors can enforce sequential learning, ensuring that students are working through items in the correct order.

Bulk Actions

Batch Edit

  • Instructors can shift dates forward and backwards by range.

  • Instructors can shift dates by calculating the range between two dates.

  • Instructors can apply the same date and time for all selected items.

  • Instructors can select one or more items and delete them.

  • Instructors can select one or more items and make them visible to students.

  • Instructors can select one or more items and make them hidden from students.

Competencies

Goals & Standards

  • Instructors can align Goals & Standards to all items in a course.

Due Dates

Due Dates

File

File

Folder

Folder

  • Instructors can drag-and-drop files from their desktop into folders in Blackboard.

Forum

Discussion

  • Instructors and students can easily see the number of responses and replies each participant has made within the discussion.

  • Instructors and students can easily filter the discussion by participant.

  • Instructors can easily identify which students have not participated and send them a message.

Glossary

Document

  • Instructors can embed files and set them to display inline and/or make them downloadable.

  • Instructors can build documents with the rich content editor, upload files using drag-and-drop workflows, or make use of a robust HTML editor for more advanced use cases.

  • Instructors can easily embed third-party integrations leveraging LTI to enhance the learning experience.

  • Instructors can enable conversations that allow students to talk about the content.

  • Progress Tracking can be enabled on Documents so that you can easily see which students have viewed it.

  • Instructors can use Progress Tracking on Documents to quickly message students based on their engagement with the content.

Gradebook Categories

Grade Categories

Gradebook Letters

Grading Schemas

Grades

Gradebook

H5P

H5P

IMS Content Package

IMS Content Package

Lesson

Learning Modules

  • Students can easily navigate to the next or previous item.

  • Students can see the number of items they need to complete and the items they have completed so far.

  • Instructors can personalize Learning Modules by uploading or selecting a custom image thumbnail.

  • Instructors can enforce sequential learning, ensuring that students are working through items in the correct order.

LTI External Tools

Teaching Tools with LTI Connection

  • Support for LTI 1.3 (Latest Version).

  • Institutions can integrate Blackboard with over 400+ LTI-based Integrations to extend the functionality of the learning management system.

Page

Document

  • Instructors can embed files and set them to display inline and/or make them downloadable.

  • Instructors can build documents with the rich content editor, upload files using drag-and-drop workflows, or make use of a robust HTML editor for more advanced use cases.

  • Instructors can easily embed third-party integrations leveraging LTI to enhance the learning experience.

  • Instructors can enable conversations that allow students to talk about the content.

  • Progress Tracking can be enabled on Documents so that you can easily see which students have viewed it.

  • Instructors can use Progress Tracking on Documents to quickly message students based on their engagement with the content.

Participants

Roster

  • Instructors can grant accommodations to students in their course to give them extra time on timed assessments or to waive deadlines.

  • Instructors can quickly identify which students have been granted accommodations.

Question Bank

Question Bank

Quizzes

Tests

  • Instructors can enable SafeAssign to check submissions for originality.

Reports

Analytics

Restrictions

Release Conditions

  • Instructors can release items to specific students or groups of students.

  • Instructors can release items by date and time.

  • Instructors can release items by how well a student performed on a specific assessment.

  • Instructors can choose to show or hide items before release conditions are met.

Rubrics

Rubrics

SCORM Packages

SCORM Packages

Sections

Learning Modules

  • Students can easily navigate to the next or previous item.

  • Students can see the number of items they need to complete and the items they have completed so far.

  • Instructors can personalize Learning Modules by uploading or selecting a custom image thumbnail.

  • Instructors can enforce sequential learning, ensuring that students are working through items in the correct order.

Settings

Course Settings

Survey

Forms

Text and Media Area

Document

  • Instructors can embed files and set them to display inline and/or make them downloadable.

  • Instructors can build documents with the rich content editor, upload files using drag-and-drop workflows, or make use of a robust HTML editor for more advanced use cases.

  • Instructors can easily embed third-party integrations leveraging LTI to enhance the learning experience.

  • Instructors can enable conversations that allow students to talk about the content.

  • Progress Tracking can be enabled on Documents so that you can easily see which students have viewed it.

  • Instructors can use Progress Tracking on Documents to quickly message students based on their engagement with the content.

Topic

Learning Module

  • Students can easily navigate to the next or previous item.

  • Students can see the number of items they need to complete and the items they have completed so far.

  • Instructors can personalize Learning Modules by uploading or selecting a custom image thumbnail.

  • Instructors can enforce sequential learning, ensuring that students are working through items in the correct order.

URL

Web Link

  • Instructors can display external web pages in a new tab or within the course experience.

  • Progress Tracking can be enabled on Web Links so that you can easily see which students have viewed it.