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Session Type: Afternoon Seminar
Through contingency planning, regular backup of materials, and cross-departmental collaboration, support staff and faculty can ensure that a course can proceed if learning management system (LMS) delivery is interrupted. Texas Woman's University uses the Blackboard LMS and keeps several safeguards in place year-round.
During the first week of every semester additional safeguards are added. The contingency plan also supports ongoing backup of course materials and grades, ensuring that best practices for distance learning are included in the program. Exposing students to alternate technologies in regular class assignments serves two purposes: to support the program goal of a dual education (content matter of the discipline as well as technology skill building), and to provide additional (alternate) resources outside the Blackboard LMS so that course work is not wholly reliant on one platform.
