Skills Required to Support Project

A common theme with all IT based projects is the need for teachers and learners to be able to use the technology. In this context the teachers involved were already proficient users of IT and well experienced in the use of Blackboard. This helped in overcoming a potential barrier to the project of training needs and the time delay that this would potentially contribute to.

To support the learners understanding of how to use the technology as planned a group tutorial session was dedicated to a Blackboard induction. This was hosted by Thompson Zulu and included general issues about using the e-ILP and managing versions of the document to maintain up-to-datedness.