Configuring your Webex Course through Blackboard

Integrate your Webex meetings into Blackboard for your online class sessions, office hours, and Classroom Collaboration.

Configuring Webex for Blackboard

1. Navigate to https://blackboard.towson.edu
2. Log in with your TU NetID and Password
3. Enter your Course
4. Click on View Course & Institution Tools on the left hand menu
5. Scroll to the bottom of the right-hand pop out menu and select Browse All Tools
6. Scroll to the bottom and select Webex. Click on the title to configure your course. Click on the plus icon in the lower right corner to add the link for your students to access on the course content page. 
7. Under Choose Features, select the options to make available in your course:
   1. Classroom Collaboration - integrates with Webex Teams and allows for a classroom chat room
   2. Virtual Meetings - creates Webex virtual class sessions
   3. Office Hours - make dates and times available for students to sign up for one-one-one office hourse
8. Click Apply
9. Time Zone is set to GMT 4:00 Eastern. Do not change the time zone.
10. Under Authorize with LMS, click Authorize. On the popup, screen, click Allow. This will only happen the first time you set up a Webex/Blackboard Integration with your account.
11. Under Webex Meetings Attendance Grading, click Turn On if you would like to grade attendance in your online sessions. See the header Grading below for more information.
12. The Remind Bot will send a reminder to all users at the Reminder Time you set. If you would like to use this, click Turn On
13. You will notice at the top you now have menu options under the Webex area for all features you enabled.

Classroom Collaboration

If you turned on Classroom Collaboration, you and your students will have a space created in Webex Teams to chat. As the instructor, you have the ability to create new spaces and view all members of the space. This space will also appear in the Webex Teams application.

1. Click on Classroom Collaboration at the top
2. Under General, you will see the option to chat with your students. You can come to this area in the course to chat or you can chat using the Webex Teams app
3. Click Create New Space to create any additional spaces for you and your students. 
   Please Note: Students are able to create spaces in the Classroom Collaboration area. Students are also able to add additional people ot the spaces they create, or to the main course space. Users added in the Teams space will not be added to the Blackboard course.

Virtual Meetings

You will use this area to create and start your online class sessions and viewing and deleting past meetings and recordings.

1. Click New Meeting to set up your online class sessions
2. Give your meeting a Name
3. Set your Meeting Date and Start Time
4. Set your Meeting Duration
5. Leave Meeting selected under Choose Session Type
6. Set any class Recurrence if this will be a recurring meeting. You can choose Daily, Weekly, or Monthly and complete information related to the recurring meeting
7. Click Create Meeting
8. To view a list of the past meetings associate with this course, click on the Past Meetings option. You can filter the list using the Filters option on the right.
9. To view your recordings, click on the Recordings tab. Recordings may take up to 24 hours to post in the Blackboard site. If you need the recording immediately, the host should receive an emailed link, and you can view the recording in the Webex portal at https://towson.webex.com.
   1. To view the recording, click View Recording. Click the Copy button to copy the password for the recording, then click View Recording at the bottom of the screen.

Office Hours

Use the Office Hours feature to make specific days of the week and times available for your students to sign up for online office hour meetings.

1. On the left, set the Meeting Duration by clicking the drop down arrow. It is set to 30 minutes by default
2. On the right, set an Appointment Buffer if you would like to allow time in between each office hour session
3. Click on a Time under the day of the week you will be available for Office Hours. Webex sets a few default times, which can be unselected by clicking on the time frame.
4. Each time you want to be available must be individually selected
5. Scroll to the bottom and click Save
6. When a student selects a time slot, you will receive an email with the information

Grading

The Webex integration allows you to turn on grading based on attendance in each session.

1. Click on the Setup tab
2. Scroll down to Webex Meetings Attendance Grading​​​​​​​ and click Turn On
3. On the Confirm Attendance Grading page, check the box next to Turn On
4. At the bottom of the page, click Confirm
5. Return to the Setup tab and scroll down to Webx Meetings Attendance Grading
6. Under Present, enter the number of points a student gets for joining the session
7. Under Absent​​​​​​​, enter the number of points a student gets if they do not join the session. This number can be 0
8. In the box for Points, enter the total number of points for all sessions. The points listed will be the total points for all sessions
   1. For example, if you have 10 sessions, and you've entered 50 points for Attendance, each session would be worth 5 points. If a student misses one session, they would have 45/50.
9. To view attendance for a specific session, go to the Virtual Meetings tab and click on Past Meetings
10. Locate the meeting you wish to view attendance for and click on the Person icon in the Action column for that meeting
    1. You will be able to see all attendance for that session, along with the total number of students who attended and what time the students joined the session. If someone missed the session, you can add a checkmark to either the Present or Absent columns for that session.
    2. If you created this session before you turned on grading, you can click Enable Grading for Meeting in the upper left corner of the screen, then click Enable to confirm.
    3. If you created this session after you turned on grading, you will be able to see which students joined the session and which did not.