Faculty Blackboard Tutorials
Getting Your Course Materials Ready
Converting Word Documents to RTF (for text files)
Converting Word Documents to PDF (for files with images)
Creating Math and Science Notation in Blackboard
Learn more: Creating Documents for Use on the Internet workshop
New Semester Course Site Preparation
Make Previous Semester Courses Unavailable for student use
Archive Your Course Site (optional)
Move course materials from a previously taught section into your new semester section via:
- Copying Your Course Materials from one Blackboard site to another
- Sending an Email Request to have your course materials copied into the new site for you
- calling 847.925.6090 for assistance
- Taking the workshop listed below
Change Your Course Title to reflect your last name and appropriate semester and year
View Student Enrollment in course sites
Remove Dropped Students that no longer are listed in your Portal roster
Make Your Course Available so students can view course materials
Manage Your Course Site List (coming soon) so you only see current course sites
Learn more: Moving Course Materials workshop
Setting Up Your Course Site
Using Your Control Panel (coming soon)
Customize Your Course Navigation Menu (coming soon)
Adding Your Syllabus (coming soon)
Learn more: Introduction to Blackboard workshop
Learn more: Adding Course Materials to Blackboard workshop
Adding Assignments
Copying Course Materials from one Blackboard site to another
Creating an Assignment Linked to the Online Gradebook (coming soon)
Adaptive Release: Part 1 - What Is It and Why Should I Use It?
Adaptive Release: Part 2 - Setup Information
Setting Up Statistics to track student use of course materials
Learn more: Moving Course Materials workshop
Learn more: Tying Assignments to the Online Gradebook workshop
Learn more: Adaptive Release workshop
Setting Up the Discussion Board
Creating a Discussion Board Forum (coming soon)
Linking a Discussion Board (coming soon) to your course materials area
Subscribing to a Discussion Board so you know when new posts have been added
Setting Up Discussion Board Grading that goes directly into the online gradebook
Learn more: Messages and Discussion Board Grading workshop
Creating Quizzes, Tests and Surveys
Creating Quizzes, Tests and Surveys (coming soon) tied directly to the online gradebook
Moving Quizzes, Tests and Surveys among Blackboard course sites
Learn more: creating Quizzes, Tests and Surveys workshop
Managing the Grade Center
Adding a Grade Column (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Removing a Grade Column (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Typing in a New Score/Overriding an Existing Grade (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Emailing Selected Students in the Gradebook (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Viewing Column Information in the Gradebook (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Exempting a Grade and Reverting Back to Original (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Changing a Grade Display to Letter, Percentage, Number or Complete/Incomplete (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Making a Column Reflect Weighting, Average of Scores or Show Minimum/Maximum Score (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Showing or Hiding Students (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Using the Gradebook Icons (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Setting Up Smartviews Based On Student Performance (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Creating a Grading Period (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Creating Your Own Grading Schema (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Creating Your Own Categories (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Organizing Your Grade Center (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Viewing Students' Grade History (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Adding Comments That Students Can See (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Uploading/Downloading the Grade Center (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Printing Out Grade Reports for Students (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Accessing SafeAssign Plagiarism Reports (Flash Video provided by UIC)
Learn more: Using the Online Grade Center workshop
Learn more: Special Tools in Blackboard (SafeAssign) workshop
Tracking Student Performance
Sending Internal Messages so students do not have to check email
Sending Email Via Blackboard (coming soon)
Using the Early Warning System to track student performance
Using the Performance Dashboard to track course access and student participation
Viewing Course Statistics to check student use of course materials
Learn more: New Blackboard Tools for You (Messages) workshop
Learn more: Performance Dashboard and Early Warning System workshop
Using New Building Blocks
Setting a Language (coming soon) for your site
Using SafeAssign (coming soon) to check for plagiarism
Using Self and Peer Assessment (coming soon) with students
Using the LockDown Browser (coming soon) to keep students from accessing other Web sites and materials when taking tests
Using Scholar (coming soon) to Locate Web-Based Materials
Learn more: Special Tools in Blackboard workshop
Helping Students Use Blackboard
Distance Learning Student Tutorial provides computer skill brush-up, Blackboard tutorials and readiness for distance learning for students
Harper Online provides technical readiness check-ups, learning readiness surveys, assignment help links and much more for students
Changing Your Blackboard Password tutorial for students
Forwarding Your Harper Email tutorial for students
Saving MS Word Documents as .RTF Files tutorial for students
Additional Information
Certified Internet Browsers for use with Blackboard Version 8
Important Technical Support Updates on issues when using Internet browsers and operating systems with Blackboard
"How Do I...?" weekly Blackboard issues and resolutions updates