For Instructors

Blackboard 8 Changes

This new release features a major change; Blackboard 8 offers the Grade Center, a newly redesigned, Java-enabled gradebook. The Grade Center offers drop-down menus and expanded functionality.

Getting Started

• Go to the Blackboard Login Page
• What’s my Blackboard Username and Password?
• Web Browsers & Blackboard
• Creating a Course Shell
• Control Panel Introduction
• Enrolling Students and Other Users in Your Blackboard Course
• Preparing/Saving Documents in RTF Format
• Making Your Blackboard Course Available to Students
• Add A Teaching Assistant
• Modify the Role of an Existing User in Blackboard

Using Blackboard

• AOL Caution
• Dial-Up Modems

Designing a Blackboard Course

Adding Content

• Add a Folder
• Add an Item to a Folder
• Upload an RTF Document
• Upload a PowerPoint Document
• Add an External Link
• Add a Persistent Link from a Database
• Add a Course Link
• Consistency in Referencing
• Multimedia Files

Discussion Board

• Create Discussion Board Forums
• Create Discussion Board Groups
• Grading Discussion Board Forums

Communication

• Text Box Editors
• Using Blackboard Email
• Using the Digital Drop Box
• Course Statistics including Attendance

Assessments and Testing

• Disable Pop-Ups for Quizzes
• Create a Blackboard Quiz/Test
• Create a Blackboard Survey
• Export Quiz Pool
• Preventing Academic Dishonesty in Blackboard

Grade Center

• General Info about the Grade Center
• Freezing Panes
• Creating Grade Schemas
• Creating Categories
• Adding and Modifying Grade Columns to the Grade Center
• Entering and Changing Grades
• Deleting and Reverting Grades
• Exempting Grades
• Calculating Grades
• Grade History
• Grade Period
• Sending Email from the Grade Center
• Download a Gradebook with Excel

End of Semester Care

• Unenroll Users from Your Blackboard Class
• Make Your Course Unavailable to Students
• Archive a Course
• Export a Course
• Copy a Course or Course Areas
• Delete a Course

Don’t see what you want here? You can check out the online manual, which you can also access by clicking the Tools button and clicking the “Online Manual” link.

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