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Blackboard Tutorials

Each of the following help topics will lead you to IT's Youtube channel for a video tutorial.

Table of Contents
  1. Creating your Blackboard site
  2. Adding Static Content
  3. Communication
  4. Assessment Tools: Assignments, SafeAssign, Tests, Grade Center
  5. Collaborative Tools
  6. Manage Site and Content
  7. Manage Users
  8. Miscellaneous
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  1. Creating your Blackboard site [back to top]
    1. Create a brand new site for a course you're teaching
    2. Create a site by combining multiple sections into one Blackboard site
    3. Request a non-Academic course site (for committees, etc.)
  2. Adding Static Content [back to top]
    1. Edit Mode, the new way to add course content without the control panel!
    2. Organizing your content in folders
    3. Editing your folder names and setting availability dates
    4. Adding files and text
    5. NEW for Bb 9! Adding Audio Content
    6. NEW for Bb 9! Adding Video Content
    7. NEW for Bb 9! File Repository: Batch Upload Feature
    8. NEW for Bb9! File Repository: Making Files Available
    9. Adding external links
    10. Adding course links
    11. Adding a Course Tools link to a content area (create an easy place to find Groups, Email function, Blogs, etc.
  3. Communication [back to top]
    1. NEW for Bb9! Blackboard 9 Homepage: Introduction
    2. NEW for Bb9! Blackboard 9 Homepage: Customize Part 1
    3. NEW for Bb9! Blackboard 9 Homepage: Customize Part 2
    4. NEW for Bb9! Create a Module Page (this is basically the new Homepage discussed above)
    5. Sending emails and adding email tool to course menu
    6. Creating announcements
  4. Assessment Tools [back to top]
    1. Assignments: Creating Assignments
    2. Assignments: How Do Students Upload their work?
    3. Assignments: Viewing and Grading Assignments online
    4. Assignments: Bulk Download Student papers to read on my computer
    5. Assignments: Paperless grading and reposting graded papers
    6. Assignments: How do students view their grades and graded papers?
    7. SafeAssign: Creating SafeAssignments
    8. SafeAssign: How Do Students Upload their work?
    9. SafeAssign: Checking submitted papers for originality
    10. SafeAssign: Bulk Download SafeAssignments
    11. SafeAssign: Grading SafeAssignments online
    12. SafeAssign: How do students see their grades?
    13. SafeAssign: Spot-check individual papers for plagiarism using Direct Submit
    14. Testing: Creating a test and test questions
    15. Testing: Adding Images to Test Questions
    16. Testing: Bulk Upload Questions 
      This is a great non-video explanation from CalPoly of how you can create a simple text file and upload a batch of questions easily to Bb.
    17. Testing: Deploying your test 
      Once a test has been created, it needs to be deployed so the students can take it.
    18. Testing: Taking a test and reviewing test scores 
      See what the student will see when taking and reviewing an online test.
    19. Testing: Reviewing and grading online tests
    20. Testing: Exporting Tests to a New Blackboard Site
    21. Grade Center: Adding Columns and entering grades for assignments and tests not created in Blackboard
    22. Grade Center: Modifying a Column
      You can edit most of a column's information--name, point value, etc--here.
    23. Grade Center: Hiding a Column
      The Grade Center can get unwieldy, so this tutorial shows you how to hide columns you don't currently need to see.
    24. Grade Center: Hiding a Grade Column from students
    25. Grade Center: Revealing a Column
    26. Grade Center: Moving Columns
    27. Grade Center: Delete Columns
    28. Grade Center: Entering Grades
    29. Grade Center: Weighted Totals
  5. Collaborative Tools [back to top]
    1. Creating a blog
    2. Creating a Blackboard Wiki
    3. Discussion Board
  6. Manage Site and content [back to top]
    1. Moving/copying files and folders within a site
    2. Moving/copying files and folders between two sites
    3. Archiving and exporting course sites
    4. Exporting and importing tests
    5. Unarchiving course sites & uploading files from archived sites
    6. Customizing your site:
      1. Edit your course menu
      2. Edit your course menu style & add a course banner
  7. Manage Users [back to top]
    1. View rosters and edit course member roles
    2. Adding W&M users to your site
    3. Adding non-W&M users to your site
    4. Removing users from a site
Other Blackboard tips and tricks [back to top]
  1. Creating a Blackboard site for a committee, as a repository, etc