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Tutorials

The Flash Movies are animated tutorials that will show you how to use Blackboard's features, and how to perform certain tasks in Blackboard.  The tutorial movies require Macromedia Flash Player. Download Flash Player here.

The printable version uses Adobe Acrobat files (PDF) and requires Adobe reader. Download Acrobat Reader here.

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Introduction to Blackboard
  • Accessing and Logging into Blackboard
  • My Blackboard Tab
  • Modify Course List in My Blackboard Tab
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  • My Courses Tab
  • Content and Files Tab
  • Making a course Available to students

Course Shell

  
  • Customizing Your Course
  • Adding files and other content
  • Adding Shared Files From Another Instructor's Content Collection
  • Edit content
  • Copying and moving content
  • Removing content
  • Adding Learning Units
  • Adding Tools to Your Course
  • Adding Staff Information
  • Copy files from your course to Content Collection
  • Add Assignment Tool

PDF Printable version

  • Grade an Assignment in the Gradebook

PDF Printable version

   

Course Menu

  • Add a link to the Course Menu
  • Hide a link on the Course Menu
  • Rename a link on the Course Menu
  • Change the Design of the Course Menu

PDF Printable version

  • Change the order of links in the Course menu

PDF Printable version

  
Communications
  • Viewing Announcement
  • Adding an announcement
  • Messages
  • Adding a discussion board
  • Archiving discussion board threads
  • Discussion Grader
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  • E-Mail

Tools

  • Glossary

PDF Printable version

  • Linking the Glossary tool in a Content Area

PDF Printable version

  

Content Collection

  • Adding files, folders, links
  • Adding multiple items using the Web Folder
  • Editing Files in Content Collection
  • Setting Permissions
  • Granting Passes
  • Advanced Searches
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  • Save Searches
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  • Bookmarks
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  • Adding Content to another person's Content Collection
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Gradebook

  • Introduction
  • Adding a column
  • Adding a grade to an item
  • Managing gradebook items
  • Weighting grades
  • Gradebook settings
  • Sorting and filtering gradebook items
  • Download a copy of gradebook
  • Upload your gradebook from Excel to Blackboard
  • Download student assignment files
  • Blackboard Survey Results
  • Blackboard Graded Items (Best Practices)
  • Discussion Grader
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  • Dropping the Lowest Grade in the Gradebook
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Tests & Surveys

  • Introduction
  • Create A Tests
  • Create A Survey
  • Create A Pools
  • Create a Tests from Pools
  • Create a Surveys from Pools
  • Add a Test to a Course
  • Adding a Survey to a Course
  • Create a Random Block of Questions
  

Respondus

  • Download Respondus (on PC only)
Webpage
  • Install Respondus (on PC only)
  • Open a File
  • Create a Quiz or Survey
  • Import Questions into Respondus
  • Standard Formatting for Questions
  • Edit Menu
  • Quiz Settings
  • Preview an Exam/Survey
  • Publish to Blackboard
  • Download Questions from Blackboard
  • Print Exams or Surveys

Adaptive Release

  • Create an adaptive release
  • Adaptive release for groups
  • Adaptive release for based on gradebook criteria
  • Advanced adaptive release

Group Collaboration

  • Making Group Collaboration Available
  • Create and add members to a group
  • Student Use of Group Collaboration

Maintenance Tools

  • Archiving your course
  • Exporting your course
  • Importing a package
  • Repair permission errors
  • Repair Permissions from a File in Another Content Collection
Portfolios
  • Using the Portfolio Wizard
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  • Creating a Portfolio
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  • Adding Content to the Portfolio
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  • Adding a URL to the Portfolio
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  • Adding an Item to the Portfolio
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  • View the Portfolio