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Blackboard Guide & Tutorial Topics General Blackboard Guides Assignment Feature Course Management Course Content Gradebook Discussion Board Testing Tools and Surveys E-Grading Virtual Classroom/Chat Other Tools
Blackboard Guide & Tutorial Topics
General Blackboard Guides Assignment Feature Course Management Course Content Gradebook Discussion Board Testing Tools and Surveys E-Grading Virtual Classroom/Chat Other Tools
General Blackboard Guides Bb 7.2 New Features -- New Features Available in 7.2 (Fall 2007) Bb 6.3 New Features -- New Features Available in 6.3 (May 12, 2006) Bb 6.2 New Features -- New Features Available in 6.2 (May 13, 2005) Bb 6.1 Update (PDF)-- New Features Available in 6.1 Blackboard Complete Workshop Guide (Word File 1.9MB) (PDF File 1.3MB) How to Make Your Course Available (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to Upload a Document (Word File) (Animated Tutorial) How to Open, Save and Print Documents (Animated Tutorial) How To Copy Content (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to Change Your Email Address (Animated Tutorial) Top Assignment Feature How to use the Assignment Feature (Word File) (PDF) How to use the Assignment Feature- Animated Tutorials Creating an Assignment Accessing an Assignment (for students) Grading an Assignment Top Course Management How to Make Your Course Available (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to Modify Course Menu (Animated Tutorial) How to Hide a Course in MY JMU View (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to Enroll Users, Change Status of Users, & Remove Users (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) Description of User Roles How to Set up Guest Access in a Course How to Create a Course Banner (Animated Tutorial) Top Course Content How to Copy Course Materials to Another Course (Word File) (PDF) How to Upload a Document (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to Copy Individual Course Documents (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to use the Assignment Feature (Word File) (PDF) See Assignment Feature above for animated tutorials. How to Create a Zip File and Upload Multiple Documents Together (Word) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) Adaptive Release: Make Content Available to Students Based Upon Rules (Word File) (PDF) How to Insert a Flash file for Students to View (Word File) (PDF) Top Gradebook How to Use the Blackboard Gradebook: Add Items, Manage Items, Weight Scores, Export and Import Grades and more! (Word) (PDF) Gradebook Scenarios: Setting Up the Gradebook- includes how to accurately enter, display and calculate grades (Word) (PDF) Investigating the Blackboard Gradebook- companion to Gradebook Scenarios (Animated Tutorial) How to Add an Item to the Gradebook (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to Hide Average Score from Student View of Gradebook How to Download and Upload the Blackboard Gradebook (Word File) (Animated Tutorial) How to Remove Gradebook Weighting (Animated Tutorial) How to Assign Extra Credit (Animated Tutorial for Points Based System) (Animated Tutorial for Weighted Grading System) Transfer Scores from Testscoring to the Blackboard Gradebook (Word) (PDF) Top Discussion Board New How to Create and Use a Discussion Board Forum (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) New Introduction to New Discussion Board Features (Animated Tutorial) New General Overview (Flash Tutorial) New User Management & Moderation (Flash Tutorial) New Peer Rating, Grading & Statistical Capabilities (Flash Tutorial) Top Testing Tools and Surveys How to Create and Deploy a Test in Blackboard (Word File) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) New Multiple Attempts and Self Assessments (Flash Tutorial) Securing Online Assessments To prevent students from printing or copying a test require the Respondus LockDown Browser (see Guides, Respondus, for more information) How to Deploy a Survey Top E-Grading Preparing and Downloading the Blackboard Gradebook for E-Grading Top Virtual Classroom/Chat How to Create a Lightweight Chat in the Collaboration Area (Word) (PDF) (Animated Tutorial) How to Create a Virtual Classroom in the Collaboration Area (Animated Tutorial) Top Other Tools How to Use the Science Toolkit-- a Science Reference for Students (Word File) (PDF) Top
General Blackboard Guides
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Assignment Feature
Course Management
Course Content
Gradebook
Discussion Board
Testing Tools and Surveys
E-Grading
Virtual Classroom/Chat
Other Tools