How Do I Import the Faculty Institutional Review Board (IRB) Resources Into My Bb Vista Course Shell?

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These resources, which have been packaged into a .zip file that you can import into your Blackboard Vista course, make it easier for faculty to implement research projects in courses. The .zip file contains the following materials:

Overview
Describes Institutional Review Board (IRB) guidelines for conducting research with human participants
Sample IRB application
Shows examples of how to respond to questions in the application
Consent form for students who participate in research
The consent form consists of a Bb Vista quiz that lets researchers know which students have agreed to participate in the study

You can use the supplied consent quiz as your starting point and then modify it as needed to better fit your research project.

To use these resources, make sure that the Learning Modules and Assessments tools are active in your Bb Vista course shell. (Refer to Adding Course Tools for instructions).

Importing the .zip File into Bb Vista

  1. Log in to Bb Vista at http://vista.nau.edu.
  2. Go to the Build tab, and then from the Designer Tools menu select Manage Course.

    Showing the Manage Course button in the Designer Tools menu.

  3. On the Manage Course page, select Import.

    Showing the Import link on the Manage Course page.

  4. In the Content Browser window, select the Repository icon on the left.

    Showing the Repository tab when browsing for the import file.

  5. Select the NAU-Institution link.
    Showing the selected .zip file in the NAU-Institution > Faculty IRB Resources folder.
  6. Select the Faculty IRB Resources for Bb Vista folder.
  7. Select the file 2010Feb08FacultyIRB_Resources.zip, and then click OK. The file will begin being imported into your course. You will see a page titled "Content Import in Progress" that shows the steps in the import process. When the process has finished, you will see a line that says "The import succeeded."
    Showing a sample page with 0 error(s) and 0 warning(s) and the Return button.
  8. Click Return.

Using the New Resources in Your Course

In the Course Tools menu, select Assessments.

You'll see a quiz titled Consent for Participating in Research. You can edit the quiz to suit your needs.

Showing the Consent for Participating in Research quiz in the Assessments tool.

Then from the Course Tools menu, select Learning Modules. You'll see a hidden module titled Faculty IRB Resources.


Showing the Faculty IRB Resources in the Learning Modules tool.

In the Faculty IRB Resources module, read the Overview and review the Sample IRB Application.

To use the Consent for Participating in Research assessment, first unhide it by selecting "Show Item" in the Bb Vista Action Menu for the quiz.

Demonstrating how to unhide the Consent for Participating in Research quiz using the Show Item choice in hte Action Menu.

Edit the red text in the quiz instructions and question text to match your research project needs.