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Blackboard Faculty Manual & Tutorials (Version 9.1)

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0.0 Course Planning and Design

0.1 Syllabus

0.2 Best Practices in Designing a Course

0.2.1 Best Practices - Creating Video Lectures

0.2.2 Online Delivery Requirements

0.3 Structure: The Course Menu (View Demo)

0.3.1 Adding a New Button to the Course Menu

0.3.2 Re-ordering the Course Menu

0.3.3 Re-naming a Menu Item

0.3.4 Hide or Delete a Menu Item

0.4 Course Availability

0.4.1 Making the Course Available to Students

0.4.2 List Students in a Course (Class Roster)

0.4.3 Changing a Student's Role

0.4.4 Setting up a Test Student

0.4.5 Adding a TA to your course site 

0.5 Groups

0.5.1 Setting up Groups (View Demo)

0.5.2 Adding or Removing Users from a Group

0.6 Enable the Visual Text Box Editor

0.7 Browsers

1.0 Content: Course Documents / Course Information

1.1 Add an Item  (View Demo)

1.2 Add a Folder

1.3 Add an External Link  (View Demo)

1.4 Add a Course Link

1.5 Create a Learning Module

1.6 Add a Content Link within the Visual Text Box Editor

1.7 Adaptive Release

1.8 Using the WebEQ Equation Editor - 

Tutorial for students

Equation Editor Template Groups

1.9  Uploading and Unpackaging Zipped Files   (View Demo)

2.0 Communication Tools

2.1 Announcements (View Demo)

2.1.1 Creating an Announcement

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  (View Demo - Forum Settings)

2.2.3 Adding a Thread to a Forum

2.2.4 Replying to a Post

2.2.5 Viewing and Sorting Threads using the Collect function

2.2.6 Subscribing to a forum or thread

2.2.7 Tagging posts

2.2.8 Locking a Thread

2.2.9 Grading Posts (View Demo)

2.2.10 Managing Student Roles

2.2.11 Peer Review of Posts

2.2.12 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 session

2.3.3 Using the virtual classroom

2.3.4 Giving students access to v. classroom recordings.

2.4 The Calendar

2.4.1 Adding an Event

2.4.2 Modifying or Deleting an Event

2.4.3 Quick Jump

2.5 Tasks

2.5.1 Adding a Task

2.5.2 Viewing Tasks

2.5.3 Modify or Delete a Task

2.6 E-mail

2.7 Blogs

2.7.1 Creating a Blog  (View Demo)

2.7.2 Managing a Blog

2.7.3 Grading a Blog

2.8 Journals

2.8.1 Creating a Journal

2.8.2 Managing a Journal

2.8.3 Grading a Journal

2.9 Wikis     (View Demo) NEW!

2.9.1 Creating a Wiki

2.9.2 Managing a Wiki

2.9.3 Grading a Wiki

3.0 Assessment

3.1 Assignments

3.1.1 Adding an Assignment   (View Demo)

3.1.2 Grading an Assignment   (View Demo)

3.1.3 Downloading multiple student assignment submissions

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

3.2.8 Reveal Test Answers to Students

3.2.9 Reset a Test (see 4.1.6 Clear an Attempt)

3.3 Self and Peer Assessments  (this feature currently not working properly in Blackboard 9.1)

3.3.1 Creating

3.3.2 Previewing

3.4 Surveys

3.4.1 Create a Survey

3.4.2 View Survey Results

4.0 Monitoring Student Progress

4.1 The Grade Center  (View Overview Demo)

4.1.1 Planning and Setting up the Grade Center

(including how to re-arrange columns in the Grade Center)

4.1.2 Symbols in the Grade Center

4.1.3 Adding an Item (column) to the Grade Center

(Includes definitions of "primary display" options.)

4.1.4 Removing an Item (column) from the Grade Center

4.1.5 Enter, Change or Delete a Grade (View Demo)

4.1.6 Clear an Attempt

4.1.7 Exempt a Grade

4.1.8 Weighting Grades (View Demo)

4.1.9 Add a Calculated Column

4.1.10 Create a Smart View (View Demo)

4.1.11 Create a Report

4.1.12 Downloading Grades

4.1.13 Uploading Grades

4.1.14 Extra Credit

4.1.15 Submitting Final Grades

4.2 Performance Dashboard

4.3 Early Warning System

5.0 Course Rollovers

5.1 Copying a Course (View Demo)

5.2 Exporting/Archiving a Course

5.3 Importing a Course

5.4 Delete a Course

The above content applies to Blackboard Version 9.1