In line with endeavour of the Dean of the Community College in Al-Kharj to adopt sound e-learning practices in the College in order to improve the quality of education, he posited the need to organize several workshops for faculty members and students to acquaint them with the Blackboard system.
The e-learning Unit at the College organized a workshop for faculty members entitled "Fundamentals of the Blackboard system" which lasted for four days starting from Monday, 8/5/1440 H. until Thursday, 11/5/1440 H. This workshop was presented by Dr Yasser Hbool. The workshop dealt with several topics, the most important of which was to outline the content page, which includes how to create an item or file, upload a picture or video tutorial, creating a link to a website or clip on You Tube. The workshop also demonstrated how to create tasks for students and how to mark them. The workshop also dealt with the preparation of tests on the Blackboard system and the way to mark them. Also, the presenter explained the establishment of an interactive forum between the professor and the students so that students can inquire about everything related to the course through this forum. The workshop also discussed how smart phones can be used in e-learning by using the blackboard app on these phones to encourage faculty and students to use e-learning. In addition, the lecture dealt with how to build virtual rooms and how teacher and student could communicate through these rooms.