Blackboard Self-Guided Tours
Animated Tutorials
The animated tutorials are available in HTML and SWF format. To watch the tutorial click on the HTML link. To save the animated tutorial to your computer, right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac) the SWF link on the page below and select the appropriate command to save the file. Please note that the SWF file requires the use of the Flash Player.
Tutorials
- Self and Peer Assessment
A tutorial on the Self and Peer Assessment tool introduced in Blackboard version 8.
[SWF]
- Grade Center: Determining Grades and Exemptions
[SWF]
- Grade Center: Analyzing Grades (differentiated instruction orientation)
[SWF]
- Grade Center: Customizing the Grade Center
[SWF]
- Grade Center: Weighting Grades
[WMV]
Tip Sheets
- Getting started with the Grade Center introduced in Version 8
The Getting Started With the Grade Center is a short document that is intended to help users begin to use the Grade Center as quickly as possible. Each page addresses a different need: a dashboard view of the Grade Center, with callouts of important functions; conceptual and procedural information on how to perform basic tasks within the Grade Center.
[PDF - 577KB]
Blackboard Tutorials - General
- Settings for a Blackboard course
In this tutorial, you will learn where the course settings are located and how to use them.
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Adding content to a Blackboard course
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add your content to a Blackboard course, including a word file, pdf file and many other file types.
[HTML] -
Archive a course
In this tutorial, you will learn how to archive a course and to save the achived file on your computers harddrive.
[HTML] -
Enrollment for a Blackboard course
In this tutorial, you will learn how to enroll yourself in a blackboard course.
[HTML] - Creating an Announcement
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an announcement in a Blackboard Learning System (Release 6), course Web site.
[HTML / SWF] -
Modifying your Course Design
In this tutorial, you will learn how add a course banner and customize your course menu settings in a course.
[HTML / SWF] -
Creating an Assignment
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an Assignment in a Blackboard course.
[HTML / SWF] -
Completing and Submitting an Assignment
In this tutorial, you will learn how to complete and submit an assignment from the student's point of view in a course.
[HTML / SWF] -
Grading an Assignment
In this tutorial, you will learn how to retrieve and grade an assignment in a course.
[HTML / SWF] -
Building a Learning Unit
In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a Learning Unit in a course.
[HTML / SWF] -
Creating and Managing Groups
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and manage a collaborative group in a course.
[HTML / SWF] - Setting up Blackboard scholar for an individual
This screencast in flash, for students, staff and instructors, covers how to quickly and easily bring any resource on the the internet into Scholar, edit a resource in Scholar, navigate around and find resources in Scholar, how to search Scholar and save continually running searches to your Scholar account (Streams), create and setup your own Scholar account, and other tips.
[SWF]
- Setting up Blackboard Scholar in a course
This screencast in flash, for instructors only, covers how to quickly and easily register a course with Scholar, setup a newly registered course with initial bookmarks, setup a newly registered course with reviewed Scholar Course streams, and other tips.
[SWF]
Tip Sheets
The following documents are available in PDF format.
To save the file to your computer, right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac)
the link on the page below and select the appropriate command to save the file.
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Field Lengths
This tip sheet lists all of the text fields in Blackboard, and the amount of text you can input into each one.
[PDF - 20KB] - Gradebook Weighting by Category
This tip sheet or job aid is designed to ensure accurate Weighting by Category.
[PDF - 144KB] - Podcasts for Faculty
This tip sheet will help Faculty setup and use podcasting in Blackboard.
[PDF - 144KB]
- Podcasts for Students
This tip sheet will help students setup and use podcasting in Blackboard.
[PDF - 144KB]
- Assessments in Blackboard
How-to tutorial for quizzes, surveys, assignments and safeassignments on Blackboard.
[PDF - 176KB]
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