Blackboard - Faculty Resources
Creating Accessible Course Content
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Working in the Course Environment
- Getting Started With Your Course Environment
- Your Course Environment
- Course to Course Navigation
- Select the Page Where Users Enter Your Course
- Adding a Banner to Your Course Entry Point
- Creating a Blank Page (for displaying content) On the Course Menu
- Uploading One or More Files to Your Course
- Making your Course Available to Students
- Adding a Glossary Term
- Adding Textbook Information to Your Course
- Adding a URL
- Adding Your Own Web Content Through Course Files
- Attaching Course Files to a Content Item
- Building a Learning Module
- Creating a Blank Page
- Creating a Lesson Plan
- Creating a Mashup
- Creating a Tool Link
- Create Multiple Rules to Release a Content Item
- Getting Started with Course Content
- Using the Text Editor
- Tour the Course Files Feature
- Changing the Course Language Pack
- Changing the User Language Pack
- Making Tools Available to Students
- Permitting and Restricting Guest and Observer Access
- Turning Tool Availability On and Off
Reporting and Course Utilities
- Copy a Course
- Exporting a Course Package
- Importing a Course Package
- Running and Saving a Course Report
- Turning On Statistics Tracking for a Content Item
Getting Started with Interactive Tools
Discover the differences among Blogs, Journals, Wikis, and the Discussion Board and how to use each tool effectively in your course.
Using the Discussion Board
- Creating a Discussion Board Forum
- Creating a Discussion Board Thread
- Changing Discussion Board Forum Settings
- Grading a Discussion Board Forum
- Grading Discussion Board Threads
- Managing Discussion Board Roles
- Moderating Discussion Board Forums
- Rating Discussion Board Threads
- Replying to a Discussion Board Thread
- Searching the Discussion Board and Collecting Posts
- Tagging Discussion Board Posts
- Commenting on a Blog Entry
- Creating a Blog
- Creating and Editing Blog Entries
- Creating a Journal
- Creating and Editing Journal Entries
- Commenting on a Journal Entry
- Adding Rich Content to a Wiki
- Creating a Wiki
- Editing a Wiki Page
- Grading a Wiki
- Linking Wiki Pages
- Viewing a Wiki Page History
- Creating Announcements
- Creating a Course Contact
- Creating a Course Task
- Sending Blackboard Messages
- Sending Email
Assessing Students
Grade Center
- Anonymous Grading
- Associating a Rubric with a Gradable Item
- Color Code the Grade Center
- Creating a Grade Center Report
- Creating Grading Notes
- Creating a Grade Rule
- Creating a Grading Rubric
- Creating Smart Views
- Customizing the Grade Center View
- Getting Started with the Grade Center - Updated for Service Pack 8!
- Getting Started with Needs Grading - New for Service Pack 8!
- Grading Assessments Question by Question
- Grading with Rubrics
- Viewing and Downloading Grade History
- Viewing Grade Details
- Working Offline with the Grade Center
- Adding an Existing Question to a Test
- Automatic Regrading - New for Service Pack 8!
- Awarding Negative Points for Incorrect Answers to Test Questions - New for Service Pack 8!
- Building a Pool
- Creating a Test
- Creating a Fill in the Blank Question
- Creating a Calculated Formula Question
- Creating a Calculated Numeric Question
- Creating an Essay Question
- Creating a Fill in Multiple Blanks Question
- Creating a Hot Spot Question
- Creating a Jumbled Question
- Creating a Likert Question
- Creating a Matching Question
- Creating a Multiple Answer Question
- Creating a Multiple Choice Question
- Creating an Ordering Question
- Creating a Quiz Bowl Question
- Creating a Short Answer Question
- Creating a True or False Question
- Creating a Random Block and Adding It to a Test
- Exporting and Importing a Test or Survey
- Getting Started with Automatic Regrading - New for Service Pack 8!
- Getting Started with Building a Test
- Reading Survey Results
- Reading Survey Submissions
- Setting Test Options (includes setting the timer for a test)
- Tagging Questions for Reuse
- The Sample Quiz - Help Prepare Students for Online Tests
- Tour the Question Finder Feature
- Uploading Test Questions from Microsoft® Excel
- Downloading Assignments
- Clean Out Graded Assignment Files
- Getting Started with Assignments - Updated for Service Pack 8!
- Using SafeAssign
Recommended End of Semester Course Maintenance for Instructors
Remember to request an archive of each course at the
end of the semester. Instructors should also download and keep
a copy of the gradebook from each course site.
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