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- Blackboard General Info
- Blackboard Basics
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- Blackboard Tests & Surveys
- Blackboard Collaboration Tools
- Blackboard Users
Blackboard General Info
How do I...
- Access Blackboard?
- Log in to Blackboard?
- Change my Blackboard password?
- Change my Blackboard password? (Video)
- Change my name in Blackboard? (Video)
- Get a new password if I forget mine?
- Get additional Blackboard Support?
Blackboard Basics
How do I...
- Build a Blackboard Course? [Great first stop for first time Blackboard Instructors!]
- Understand the layout of a Blackboard Course Shell?
- Post an announcement?
- Post an announcement? (Video)
- Create an assignment?
- Check submitted assignments?
- Backup my course?
- Archive my course?
- Archive my course? (Video)
- Import an archive or export file into my course?
- Re-use a course shell?
- Change the name & description of my course?
- Add information to my course?
- Attach a document to course content? (Video)
- Attach more than one file to the same piece of information?
- Check the size of a file?
- Copy information in my course to another location?
- Create folders in my course?
- Change information in my course?
- Remove information from my course?
- Change the order of my content?
- Add my course to Blackboard's course catalog?
- Change the look of my course's main menu?
- Understand the difference between quick-view & detail-view in my course menu?
- Add a menu item to my course?
- Change a menu item in my course?
- Understand the different menu tools do?
- Fix my course when guests cannot see all my menu items? (Video)
- Add a link to a place in my course to the menu?
- Add a link to a place outside my course to the menu?
- Remove a menu item from my course?
- Create a graphic banner for my course? - Required PowerPoint Template
- Clean out my course?
- Remove a calendar entry?
- Send e-mail to people in my course?
Blackboard Advanced
How Do I...
- Use the Blackboard Gradebook?
- Create a syllabus for my course?
- Turn off access to certain tools in my course?
- Add MS Publisher documents in Blackboard?
- Add a PowerPoint presentation that users without PowerPoint can view? (Video)
- Share a course with other teachers?
- Use the digital dropbox in my course? (Video)
- Make content viewable by only certain students in a course?
- NEW Make content viewable to a student only after they have reviewed a previous item?
- NEW Make content viewable to a student only after they have achieved a minimum grade on an assessment?
- Limit when students can access my course?
- Create a batch enrollment file for my coordinator?
Blackboard Tests & Surveys
How Do I...
- Create a survey?
- Modify surveys in my course?
- Export a survey from my course?
- Import a survey into my course?
- Remove a survey from my course?
- Print my survey results?
- Download my survey results?
- Add an existing test to my course?
- Create a new test?
- Create a new test from an existing test pool in my course? (Video)
- Make a test or survey available to my students?
- Make changes to an existing test?
- Export a test from my course?
- Import a test into my course?
- Remove a test from my course?
- Understand the restrictions for creating a test or survey?
- Set individual point values for questions in tests?
Blackboard Collaboration Tools
How Do I...
- Create a group with a discussion board?
- Use a group discussion board?
- Create a group with a file exchange?
- Use a group file exchange?
- Create a virtual classroom?
- Access a virtual classroom in my course?
- Use the tools available in the virtual classroom?
- Ask and respond to questions in the virtual classroom?
- Limit tool access for students in a virtual classroom?
- Add a discussion board for my students?
- Read a discussion board?
- Post to a discussion board in my course?
- Print a discussion board?
Blackboard Users
How Do I...
- Find out if a user is already enrolled in my course?
- Enroll a student into my course?
- Let parents or others who don't have Blackboard accounts see my course?
- Remove a student from my course?
- Set up my course to allow students to enroll themselves?
- Make a user in my course an instructor like me?
- Remove an instructor from my course?
