Blackboard - Faculty & Staff

Move Files from Bb8 to Bb9

• Add your syllabus
• Add your Contact Information
• Add your Textbook

Setting up “Coursework” Content Area

• Structuring Options (Folders, Learning Modules, Lesson Plans)
• Adding Content
• Editing and Managing Coursework
• Controlling the Release of Content
• Linking to e-Reserves
• Add video to Content Editor

Add Assessments

• Assignments
  • Turnitin Assignment
    • GradeMark
    • PeerMark
  • Bb Assignment

• Discussion Boards
• Journals
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Portfolios
• Tests & Surveys
• Respondus and Respondus LockDown Browser
• Rubrics

• Setting Up the Grade Center
• Using the Grade Center
• • Needs Grading
  • Entering Grades
  • Downloading the Grade Center
  • Uploading the Grade Center
  • Dropping the Lowest Grade
  • Anonymous Grading
  • Hide Columns in Grade Center, Don't Show in "My Grades"

Communication Tools

• Announcements
• Contacts
• Course Calendar
• Email
• Messages
• Tasks
• Blackboard Collaborate

Study Aids

• Glossary
• StudyMate Class
• StudyMate Author

• Creating Groups
• Editing Groups
• Adding Students in Groups
• Removing Students from Group
• Creating Group Assignments
• Grading Group Assignments

Other Tools

• Faculty "Test Student" (_s) Account
• Link Checker
• Set Grade Center Due Dates
• Notifications

Customize Your Course

• Customizing the Course Shell
• Customizing “My Blackboard” tab

Maintenance

• Start of Semester Activities
• End of Semester Activities
• Export course from previous semester and import it into current semester course shell
• Manage the My Courses and Course List modules

If you do not find a tutorial linked here, use the Help menu at the bottom of the Control Panel in your course.

• Click on Help to expand the menu.
• Click on Blackboard Help for Instructors link. A new window will open.
• In the search box type in key words associated with the topic such as "Course Available" if you want information on how to make your course shell available to students.

Please also visit our Blackboard 9.1 Resources page for more information on the new features of Blackboard 9.1.