Blackboard

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• Finding courses; change alerts

  You can access Blackboard here: https://calbaptist.blackboard.com/

  See this tutorial on how to find your courses

  See this tutorial on how to change your alerts/notifications from Blackboard.

• Designing the course
  When building the course, you want to organize the materials in a way that help students access it smoothly.  The following tutorials help you organize content, create opportunities for interaction, create assignments, and create quizzes or exams.

   

  • Adding Content to a Course Module
    • PDF version
  • Changing the Appearance of the Blackboard Menu
  • Change font/size
  • Creating a Folder for Each Week of Instruction
  • Creating a Journal
  • Creating a Blog / Wiki
  • Editing a Course Home Page
  • Make the "calendar" available
  • Link all assessments in the modules, and in an "assessments" link
• Images
  • Add images to your course
  • Customize the 'tile' image of your course
•  Make Course Available,
  Your Blackboard courses is automatically set as not available.  That means the students cannot see your course, which gives you time to update and make corrections.  We recommend that you make your course available to students to view a week prior to the start of class. 

  • Making Your Course Available to Students

   
• Communicating with Students, Notifications
  Announcements are a helpful way to provide updates to students throughout the course.

  • How to Create Announcements in Your Course
  • Add "announcements" to the left-hand navigation

  You may also send emails to the whole class, certain groups, or individuals.

  • How to Send Email in Blackboard Learn
  • How to Change email notifications in Blackboard
• Building Additional Learning Opportunities in Blackboard
  • Webex Education Connector for Blackboard Learn (PDF)
  • Ultra navigation and alterations to the the syllabus
  • How to Create a Mashup (YouTube, VoiceThread, GoogleDocs or any other web-based content)
  • How to Send Email in Blackboard Learn
  • Adding Content to a Course Module
  • Adding Library Films on Demand videos in Blackboard
  • Linking to Library Resources in Blackboard
  • Add Student Resources modules
• Discussion boards
  • Creating a Discussion Forum
  • Add "Discussion board" to the left-hand navigation
  • What to do if students can't create a new post in the discussion forum
• Groups
  • Add "groups" to the left-hand navigation
    
  • Creating a Group Set
  • Change Group Enrollment
• How can you check for student engagement in Blackboard?
  The Performance Dashboard in Blackboard can help you track your students progress in your course. It is important to remember to check the box of  tracking number of views for best results in any item, content, or assignment. 
• Assessments and Assignments
  • Creating an Assignment.
    • PDF Version

  Quizzes/Tests

  • Creating a Quiz/Test/Exam in Blackboard
  • "New" Blackboard Quiz Generator (web resource)
  • How To Create a Test in Blackboard Learn
  • How to Create a Test Question
  • How to Create a Random Block of Test Questions
  • How to Set Test Options
  • Creating a Calculated Formula Question
  • Creating a Calculated Numeric Question
  • Creating a Fill in Multiple Blanks Question
  • Creating a Fill in the Blank Question
  • Creating an Essay Question
  • Creating a Jumbled Question
  • Creating a Matching Question
  • Allow multiple submissions

  About SafeAssign:

  SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention tool that allows your instructor to check the originality of a homework submission. SafeAssign automatically conducts the check by comparing your assignment against a database of other assignment submissions.  (Learn More Here)

  Rubrics

  • How to create embedded rubrics in Blackboard
• Grades, and the Grade Center in Blackboard
  • Add the "My Grades" tool to the left-hand navigation
  • Needs Grading
  • How to Customize the Grade Center
  • How to Use Grade Details to See Attempts and Assign Grades
  • Color Code the Grade Center
  • How to Create a Smart View of Grade Center Data
  • How to divide your "full grade center" of a merged course into sections
  • Check the math in the Grade Center total- that it includes all columns
  • Scroll bar for gradebook disappeared on your mac? Click here for the fix
  • How to use weighted grades
  • Change an assignment from "points" to pass/fail or complete/incomplete.
• Adaptive Release
  • Working with Adaptive release
    
• Additional Resources and Reports
  • Blackboard Help Website
  • The Retention Center in Blackboard
• Clean up your course
  Delete undeployed tests
  
• Course copy

  Importing and Exporting a Course (Formerly Copying)

  • Course Copy Request

    If you have a course copy request, fill out this form

    Otherwise, you may perform a number of course copy actions yourself. Here are some tutorials:

    • Before you import class content or copy a course section, click this tutorial to learn how to prepare a video for course copy by "bulk deleting"
    • Click this tutorial to learn how to export a Blackboard course package, to give to someone else to import it

  It is a good idea to check your course by looking at the Student Preview prior to making it available.  This helps you see if the assignments and materials show up the way you expect them to.

  Student Preview Tutorial