The following tutorials will walk you through developing and using your Blackboard course(s). View the video or download the pdf for an explanation on how to use those specific features in Bb when developing class material.
Getting Started for Faculty
The following tutorials will help you get started with creating your course in Blackboard.
- Using the Control Panel
The new control panel in Blackboard 9 enables you to easily navigate and is accessible from anywhere in your course.
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- Customizing Your Blackboard Course
Learn how to turn edit mode on/off, how to create content areas (subheaders, dividers, etc.), including customization such as style, course point of entry, etc. It also illustrates how to manipulate the course menu, including moving/renaming content areas and creating items within content area. It also highlights the newly created course home page and the control panel.
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- Creating Course Menu Items
Create new module areas in your course menu.
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- Content Area Functions
Find out about the functionality of the four main buttons available in any course module.
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- Adding an Item
Learn how to add an item in Blackboard 9.
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- Creating a Folder
Organize your course more efficiently by creating folders.
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- Creating an External Link
Learn how to create an external link and play with options such as displaying it in a new window.
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Assessment for Faculty
A Bb course enables you to create and disperse assignments and has a grade center for recording and distributing students' grades.
Course Tools for Faculty
Take advantage of these course tools to enhance your course content and to expand your course discussion beyond the physical classroom.
- Announcements in Blackboard 9
Create announcements (permanent and date restricted), send an e-mail to all users about the announcement, create course link within announcement.
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- Sending an E-mail within Blackboard 9
Send an e-mail to some or all of users within a course.
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- Creating a Discussion Board
Create discussion boards such as forums and threads for all students or selected groups of students. It also illustrates how to grade discussion board posts.
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- Creating Group Pages
Learn to create group pages from the content menu. It also illustrates how to create groups for students that you can either manually enroll them in or have them self-enroll themselves.
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- Archive a Course
Archive creates a permanent record of a course including all the content and user interactions available at the time the archive is initiated.
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- Copy a Course
Course Copy adds content from one course to another, and is useful when teaching the same course across various semesters.
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- Import a Course
An Import package is a .ZIP file of exported course content. Importing a package into an existing course copies the contents of the package in the course. Import packages do not include user enrollments or records, such as discussion board posts and assessment attempts.
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- Export a Course
Export creates a package of the course content that can later be imported into the same course or into a different course. Unlike Archive, Export does not include any user interactions. It only includes Content, Settings, and Tools.
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- Create a Blog
A Blog is a collaborative tool that allows students to post their personal reflection about the course or discuss and analyze course related material.
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- Create a Wiki
A Wiki is a collaboratively authored by a group users. An instructor can allow the entire class or groups to add text, graphics, files and links to build the content of the site.
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Assessment for Students
