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Blackboard Faculty Manual & Tutorials (Version 8.0)

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What's New in Blackboard 8.0?

Review the following sections of this manual:
4.1 The Grade Center
3.3 Self and Peer Assessments

Miss the December training sessions? View a recorded version of the online training about the changes in Blackboard 8 via this URL: http://oregonstate.acrobat.com/p51426809/

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

0.5 Groups

0.5.1 Setting up Groups

0.5.2 Removing Users from a Group

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 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

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

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

3.2.8 Reveal Test Answers to Students

3.2.9 Reset a Test (see 4.1.6 Clear an Attempt)

3.3 Self and Peer Assessments NEW!!

3.3.1 Creating

3.3.2 Previewing

3.4 Surveys (under construction)

4.0 Monitoring Student Progress

4.1 The Grade Center (View Overview Demo) NEW!!

4.1.1 Planning and Setting up the Grade Center - Customizing

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 Simulation)

4.1.6 Clear an Attempt

4.1.7 Exempt a Grade

4.1.8 Weighting Grades (View Simulation)

4.1.9 Add a Calculated Column

4.1.10 Create a Smart View (View Simulation)

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

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 8.0