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| Name |
Description |
| Blackboard 7.3 Overview | Are you new to Blackboard? This guide will help you get started! |
| Turnitin | Are you concerned that students may be plaziaring their papers? This document will show you step-by-step instructions on how to use the Turnitin plug-in for Blackboard to check for plagiarized content. |
| Adding Content | This document walks intructors through the steps for adding Content Items, Content Folders, and External Links to a Content Area. |
| Interactive Assignments | By creating an Interactive Assignment link in your Blackboard course, your students can securely submit electronic copies of their papers. This method is far more organized than e-mail or the Digital Dropbox, because it creates a column in the gradebook for you. |
| Blackboard Layout | This document walks instructors through the steps for adding and removing Menu items, changing the Menu design, and adding a banner. |
| Communication | Fluid communication with your students is essential for an effective Distance Education course. This document shows you how to make your course available to your students, as well as how to communicate with your students via announcements and e-mail. |
| Gradebook | The Gradebook allows instructors to keep track of their students' grades digitally. This document covers the steps for accessing the Gradebook, adding new grades and assignments, and changing Gradebook's display options. |
| Discussion Board | This document walks instructors through the steps for accessing, editing, writing on, and grading Discussion Board posts. |
| User Management | This document provides steps for enrolling, unenrolling, and promoting users in your Blackboard course. |
| The Test Builder | Blackboard 7.3 allows you to create and distribute tests and quizzes that your students then finish online. Some of the options covered are:
- Creating a new test/quiz - Modifying an existing test/quiz - Making a test available - Resetting a test |
| Basic Adaptive Release | Provides the procedure for adding basic Adaptive Release rules. The rules described in this document include: - Item availability - Date and time - Individual users - Scores or attempts on any Gradebook item - Review status of another item in the course |
| Review Status | This document provides instructors with the steps for enabling Review Status for content items within their courses. Review Status is tool that allows students to mark content as "reviewed." It also allows instructors to more easily track student progress. |
| Performance Dashboard | The Performance Dashboard is a one-stop resource for instructors for reviewing the progress of their students through the course content. This document provides a description of the Performance Dashboard and an explanation of the Adaptive Release icons. |
| Blogs in Blackboard | The Blog tool is an exciting new way to get your students writing in Blackboard. This guide will show you how to add a blog to your course.. |
| Wikis in Blackboard | The Wiki tool is a great way to make collaborative writing simpler and easier. This guide will show you how to create a wiki in your Blackboard shell. |