Black Board Features for Instructors
- » WHAT IS BLACKBOARD?
- » LOGGING INTO THE SYSTEM
- » ADDING AND MODIFYING COURSE SITE'S MATERIALS
- » CUSTOMIZING SITE'S APPEARANCE
- » ACCESSING A SITE AND ENROLLING USERS
- » COLLECTING STUDENTS' WORK
- » COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION TOOLS
- » ASSESSMENT TOOLS: TESTS, SURVEYS, AND POOLS
- » USING THE GRADE CENTER
OTHER QAs
- How do I make a Blackboard site available to students?
- When will Blackboard sites be automatically created for courses listed with the University Registrar?
- How do I request a Blackboard site?
- How do I remove a course site from Blackboard?
- How do I check the status of Blackboard?
- How do I print materials stored in Blackboard?
- How do I update my username and password in Blackboard?
- Updating your e-mail address, name, or password in Blackboard
- Why isn't my e-mail address displayed in Blackboard's course rosters?
- Blackboard and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
- How can I use one Blackboard site for several sections of a course?
- How do I archive a Blackboard site?
- How do I export a Blackboard site?
- How do I import materials into my Blackboard sites with Import Package?
- When would I use Export Course instead of Archive Course to back up a Blackboard site?
- Blackboard: Software Requirements
- What's new in Blackboard 8: Overview?
ADDING AND MODIFYING COURSE MATERIALS
- Overview
- Organizing content: Content Areas and Folders
- Working in Content Areas: Control Panel
- Working in Content Areas: Edit View
- Content Area Toolbar
- Adding a Content Item
- Adding an Image File
- Adding a Group of Linked Web Pages
- Adding a Folder
- Adding an External Link
- Adding a Course Link
- Adding a Learning Unit
- Creating a Learning Unit
- Adding a File to a Learning Unit
- Modifying a Piece of Content
- Modifying Content Attachments
- Removing a Piece of Content
- Copying or Moving a Folder or Piece of Content
- Enabling and Viewing Content Tracking Reports
- Linking to a File or Folder on CD
- Specifying the Location of Your Computer's CD-ROM Drive
- I'm developing a Blackboard site. How do I upload a file to it?
- How do I copy materials from one Blackboard site to another one?
- How do I add a direct link to a Blackboard tool to a site's Course Menu?
- How do I add a link to an external web resource to Blackboard site's Course Menu?
- One or more pieces of content are suddenly missing from my course's Blackboard site. Where did they go?
CUSTOMIZING SITES
- Editing Your List of Courses
- How do I customize a Blackboard site's Course Menu?
- I'm developing a Blackboard site. How do I change its default name?
- I'm developing a Blackboard site. How do I change its Course ID?
- How do I add a Course Banner to a Blackboard site?
- How do I change the default entry point for a Blackboard site?
- How do I link from an external web page to a Blackboard site or Blackboard tool?
- I'm developing a Blackboard site. How do I create additional Content Areas?
- I'm developing a Blackboard site. How do I remove a link from its Course Menu?
- I'm developing a Blackboard site. How do I rename a link on its Course Menu?
- I'm developing a Blackboard site. How do I reorder the links on its Course Menu?
- How do I remove unwanted tools from a Blackboard site's Communication or Tools menus?
- How do I change the color or style of a Blackboard site's Course Menu?
- How do I turn off Blackboard's Text Box Editor?
- The Text Box Editor isn't displaying in Blackboard. How can I fix this?
SITE ACCESS AND ENROLLMENT
- I'm teaching a course, but don't see a Blackboard site for it. How can I get access to the course's site?
- How often are student enrollments updated in Blackboard?
- How often is user account information updated in Blackboard?
- How do I manually enroll a student or auditor in a Blackboard site?
- How do I manually remove a student from a Blackboard site?
- How do I view current enrollment in a Blackboard course?
- How do I copy student enrollments from one site to another?
- I'm a course instructor. How do I give teaching assistants and instructional support staff access to a Blackboard site?
- I'm trying to add a person to my Blackboard site, but the system's telling me that no user matching the search criteria was found. How do I proceed?
- I'm trying to add a person to my Blackboard site, but the system's telling me that they already have access or don't exist in the system. How do I proceed?
- Why aren't some of my enrollments transferring after I've copied them from one Blackboard section to another?
- What privileges/restrictions do Blackboard course roles have?
- My Blackboard guests can access the course site, but aren't able to access course materials. What might be the problem?
- How do I change an individual's course role in a Blackboard site?
- How do I give someone who doesn't have an Onyen access to a Blackboard site?
- How do I give a student from another institution access to a Blackboard site?
- I'm an instructor. How do I remove someone else with instructor-level access to a Blackboard site?
- I'm an instructor. How can I make a Blackboard site available to only one student?
- One or more individuals listed in my Blackboard site have a username that begins with a PID number and ends with "_has_no_onyen". What might be the problem?
- One or more students in my class are reporting that they can't access my course's Blackboard site. What should I do?
ASSIGNMENT COLLECTION TOOLS
- Overview
- Feature Comparison: Digital Dropbox and Assignment Tool
- Using the Assignment Tool
- Overview
- Adding an Assignment to a Content Area
- Instructions for Students: Viewing Assignment Instructions
- Instructions for Students: Submitting Your Assignment
- Viewing an Individual Student's Submitted Work
- Downloading and Viewing Multiple Files
- How do I clear an assignment attempt in Blackboard?
- How do I grade assessments or assignments that are set to display as complete/incomplete?
- A student has reported submitting an assignment, but a notebook and a pencil icon displays in the Grade Center and there isn't a file to download. What's the problem?
- Using the Digital Dropbox
COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION TOOLS
- Using Blackboard Announcements
- Blackboard: Sending Email
- Blackboard: Discussion Board
- Overview
- Accessing the Discussion Board and Adding a Forum
- Linking to a Forum from a Content Area or from an Announcement
- Adding a New Discussion Topic (Thread) to a Forum
- Reading and Replying to a Message
- Reading Message Attachments
- Sorting Messages
- Other Viewing Options
- Collecting Messages into a Single Window for Viewing, Printing, or Saving to a File
- Forum Management
- Giving Students Forum Administrator Privileges
- Removing Messages
- Creating a Forum Archive and Archiving Message Threads
- Locking Messages
- Where can I find Multimedia Tutorials for Students on Using Blackboard's Discussion Board?
- How do I archive discussion forum messages?
- How do I print discussion forum messages in Blackboard?
- Overview
- Blackboard: Staff Information Area
- Blackboard: Group Pages
- Blackboard: Chat Tools
- How do I create a Student Homepage in a Blackboard site?
- How do I view Student Homepages in Blackboard?
- Blackboard: Course Calendar and Tasks
USING TESTS, SURVEYS, AND POOLS
- What should I be aware of before administering a test or survey in Blackboard?
- How do I create a test in Blackboard?
- How do I create a survey in Blackboard?
- How can I use Respondus to create tests and surveys for use in Blackboard?
- What question types can be used in Blackboard tests and surveys?
- How do I make a Blackboard test or survey available to students?
- How do I review students' answers to a test in Blackboard?
- How do I view students' responses to a Blackboard survey?
- How do I download Blackboard test or survey responses to a file?
- How do I make changes to a Blackboard Test or Survey?
- How do I clear a test or survey attempt in Blackboard?
- How do I clear an assignment attempt in Blackboard?
- Blackboard: Working with Question Pools
- How do I create a Blackboard test that assigns questions randomly?
- How do I delete a Blackboard test or survey?
- How do I make an unavailable Blackboard test or survey available to students?
- Where can I find Multimedia Tutorials for Students on taking quizzes in Blackboard?
- I was taking a test or survey on Blackboard, but then a technical problem intervened. What should I do?
USING THE GRADE CENTER
- How do I enter grades in Blackboard's Grade Center?
- How do I weight grades in Blackboard's Grade Center?
- How do I make grades in Blackboard not visible to students?
- How do I upload grades to Blackboard's Grade Center?
- How do I upload scantron grades to Blackboard's Grade Center?
- How do I download a copy of my Blackboard site's Grade Center?
- What does a notebook and a pencil icon in the Grade Center indicate?
- I'm using Blackboard's Grade Center, and would like to drop the lowest score that students have received. How do I do this?
- I'd really like to see for myself what students see when they view the grades I've assigned them in Blackboard's Grade Center. What would you suggest?
- How do I modify the default letter/number conversion scheme in Blackboard's Grade Center?
- I've uploaded a column of grades from Excel to Blackboard's Grade Center, but the grades aren't displaying. What's the problem?
- I've entered grades in Blackboard's Grade Center, but students are reporting that they can't access them or don't see them. What can I do?
- My instructor has posted grades on Blackboard, but I can't access them or they aren't listed. What might be the problem?
- I'm using Blackboard's Grade Center to assign letter grades, and some students are reporting that they see lower grades than the ones I've assigned. What's the problem?
- A student has reported submitting an assignment, but a notebook and a pencil icon displays in the Grade Center and there isn't a file to download. What's the problem?
- How do I assign extra credit points in Blackboard's Grade Center?
- I've entered letter grades for students into Blackboard's Grade Center and want to calculate final grades. How do I do this?
- Is it possible to apply a running Weighted Total to grades in Blackboard's Grade Center?
- How do I grade assessments or assignments that are set to display as complete/incomplete?
- I've entered scores in Blackboard's Grade Center, but they're showing up as checkmarks. How can I change this?
