Course Terms. Course terms are used to define the beginning and end of a period of study. You can make courses available during a specific course term. To learn more about setting course properties, see Managing Courses. To view the currently defined terms, access the Administrator Panel. In the Courses section, select Terms.
To edit an existing term, open the term's menu and select Edit. On the Edit Term page, type a Name and optional Description. For Availability, select Yes to make the term available to courses throughout Blackboard Learn. Select No to make the term unavailable. Set the Duration for the term.
The Yahoos were a race of brutes, with the form and vices of humans, encountered by Gulliver in his fourth and final voyage. They represented Swift's view of mankind at its lowest. It is not surprising, then, that yahoo came to be applied to any actual human who was particularly unpleasant or unintelligent.
We know exactly how old yahoo is because its debut in print also marked its entrance into the English language as a whole. Yahoo began life as a made-up word invented by Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver's Travels, which was published in 1726. On his fourth and final voyage of the book, Lemuel Gulliver is marooned on an island that is the home of the Houyhnhnms, a species of intelligent, civilized horses who share their land with and rule over the Yahoos, a species of brutes with the form and vices of humans. These Yahoos represented Swift's view of humankind at its lowest. It is not surprising, then, that yahoo came to be applied to any actual human who was particularly unpleasant or unintelligent.
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The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a specific course or program. In dictionaries, curriculum is often defined as the courses offered by a school, but it is rarely used in such a general sense in schools. Depending on how broadly educators define or employ the term, curriculum typically refers to the knowledge and skills students are expected to learn, which includes the learning standards or learning objectives they are expected to meet; the units and lessons that teachers teach; the assignments and projects given to students; the books, materials, videos, presentations, and readings used in a course; and the tests, assessments, and other methods used to evaluate student learning. An individual teacher’s curriculum, for example, would be the specific learning standards, lessons, assignments, and materials used to organize and teach a particular course.
Curriculum philosophy: The design and goals of any curriculum reflect the educational philosophy—whether intentionally or unintentionally—of the educators who developed it. Consequently, curriculum reform may occur through the adoption of a different philosophy or model of teaching by a school or educator. Schools that follow the Expeditionary Learning model, for example, embrace a variety of approaches to teaching generally known as project-based learning, which encompasses related strategies such as community-based learning and authentic learning. In Expeditionary Learning schools, students complete multifaceted projects called “expeditions” that require teachers to develop and structure curriculum in ways that are quite different from the more traditional approaches commonly used in schools.
Since curriculum is one of the foundational elements of effective schooling and teaching, it is often the object of reforms, most of which are broadly intended to either mandate or encourage greater curricular standardization and consistency across states, schools, grade levels, subject areas, and courses.
Use course terms to define the beginning and end of a period of study. You can make courses available during a specific course term.
Duration: A course's duration is the time between its start and end date. Any course that is currently active, whether it's affiliated with a term or not, appears in Current Courses so course members have easy access. The course's availability or completion doesn't change this setting.
In the Ultra experience, students and instructors always have access to their courses on the Courses page, no matter which course view the course is delivered in. The Ultra Course View and the Original Course View appear seamlessly in the list. Courses in the Original Course View are shown with a gray course card and the Original Course View label. Courses in the Ultra Course View use colors and don't have a label.
Terms are defined time periods meant to help institutions organize courses according to the academic calendar. You can add courses to a term so availability options are automatic based on the term's settings. This way, if you need to adjust the availability or duration for all courses delivered in Fall 2017, you can adjust the term's settings rather than manually updating each course.
If the course duration has elapsed, the course appears in Past Courses.
When you delete a term, the action is irreversible. Use caution when deleting terms that have courses associated with them.
Terms: The Courses page contains three lists by default: Past Courses, Current Courses, and Upcoming Courses. New lists appear on the Courses page when at least one course is associated with a custom term. The header shows the term's name, such as Fall 2017.