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0.0 Course Planning and Design

0.1 Syllabus

0.2 Best Practices in Designing a Course (under construction)

0.3 Structure: The Course Menu

0.3.1 Adding Content Areas to the Menu

0.3.2 Adding Tools to the Menu

0.3.3 Adding an External Link to the Menu

0.3.4 Re-Ordering the Course Menu

0.3.5 Re-Naming a Menu Item

0.3.6 Turn off the Tool Panel 

0.4 Course Availability

0.4.1 Making a Course Available to Students

0.4.2 List Students in a Course

0.4.3 Changing a Student's Role

0.4.4 Setting up a Test Student

1.0 Content: Course Documents / Course Information

1.1 Adding an Item

1.2 Adding a Folder

1.3 Adding an External Link

1.4 Adding a Course Link

2.0 Communication Tools

2.1 Announcements

2.1.1 Creating an Announcement (View Demo/Simulation)

2.1.2 Modify or Remove an Announcement

2.2 The Discussion Board

2.2.1 Overview (View Demo)

2.2.2 Creating a New Forum

2.2.3 Adding a Thread to a Forum

2.2.4 Replying to a Post

2.2.5 Viewing and Sorting Threads

2.2.6 Locking a Thread

2.2.7 Grading Posts

2.2.8 Managing Student Roles

2.2.9 Peer Review of Posts

2.2.10 Discussion Board Statistics (see Performance Dashboard in Section 4.0)

2.3 The Virtual Classroom

2.3.1 Setting up a virtual classroom or chatroom

2.3.2 Joining a virtual classroom or chatroom

2.3.3 Using the virtual classroom (under construction)

2.4 The Digital Dropbox

2.4.1 Adding an Attachment

2.4.2 Sending an Attachment

2.4.3 Reviewing Student Files

2.5 The Calendar

2.5.1 Adding an Event

2.5.2 Modifying or Deleting an Event

2.5.3 Quick Jump

2.6 Tasks

2.6.1 Adding a Task

2.6.2 Viewing Tasks

2.6.3 Modify or Delete a Task

2.7 E-mail

3.0 Assessment

3.1 Assignments

3.1.1 Adding Assignments (View Demo/Simulation)

3.1.2 Grading Assignments (View Demo/Simulation)

3.2 Tests

3.2.1 Create a New Test

3.2.2 Add an Existing Test to a Course

3.2.3 Make an Existing Test Available to Students

3.2.4 Change Test Settings

3.2.5 Modify Content of a Test

3.2.6 The Pool Manager: Overview

3.2.7 Creating a Test from a Pool

3.3 Surveys (under construction)

4.0 Monitoring Student Progress

4.1 Gradebook

4.1.1 Planning and Setting up the Gradebook

4.1.2 Symbols in the Gradebook

4.1.3 Adding an Item to the Gradebook (View Demo/Simulation)

4.1.4 Removing an Item from the Gradebook

4.1.5 Weighting Grades

4.1.6 Running Total Column

4.1.7 Changing Grades

4.1.8 Downloading the Gradebook

4.1.9 Uploading the Gradebook

4.2 Performance Dashboard

4.3 Early Warning System (under construction)

5.0 Course Rollovers

5.1 Copying a Course (View Demo)

5.2 Exporting a Course

5.3 Importing a Course

5.4 Archiving a Course

5.5 Recycling a Course

The above content applies to Blackboard Version 7.3