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Blackboard How-To

Video Tutorials for Instructors (Link)  

Blackboard Guide for Instructors (Link)  

Blackboard Access

  • How to Login to Blackboard (Link)
  • How to Make Your Course Available to Students (Link)
  • How to Setup Your Name Pronunciation (Video)

Main Course Interface & Course Content

  • Course Navigation Guide (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Preview Your Course as a Student (Video) (Link)  
  • Copy Course Content (Link)
  • Check Course Size (Link)
  • Managing Course Dates (Video) (Link)  
  • End of Semester Tasks for Courses (Link)
  • Changing Course Start and End Dates (Link)

Course Content

  • How to Organize Files in the Content Collection (Link)
  • Create Content Items and Files (Video) (Link)
  • Deleting Course Files (Link)
  • Adding Course Menu Items (Link)

Ally Accessibility Checker

  • Short Video Overview (Video)
  • Ally Help for Instructors (Link)  
  • Ally QuickStart Guide for Instructors (Link)  
  • Course Accessibility Report Guide (Link)  
  • How to Find the Course Accessibility Report (Link)
  • How to Fix Contrast Issues (Video) (Link)
  • How to Add Image Descriptions to a Document (Video) (Link)

Communication Tools

  • How to Send a Course Announcement (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Send Course Messages (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Send an Email from Your Course (Link)  

Discussion Boards

  • How to Set Up and Interact within a Discussion Board (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Grade Discussions (Link)  
  • Collecting and Printing Discussion Board Posts (Link)

Assignments

  • How to Create an Assignment (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Grade an Assignment (Video) (Link)  
  • Managing Due Dates for All Assignments (Link)  
  • Downloading Assignment Files (Link)
  • SafeAssign
    • About SafeAssign (Link)  
    • Creating a SafeAssign Assignment (Video)
    • Setting Up a SafeAssign Assignment (Link)
    • How to DirectSubmit to SafeAssign (Video)
    • How to View Originality Report (Video) (Link)  

Tests & Quizzes

  • How to Deploy a Test (Link)
  • Setting Test Options (Link)
  • Setting Test Availability Exceptions (Link)
  • Showing Test Results and Feedback to Students (Link)

Respondus

  • Respondus 4.0
  • Respondus 4.0 Complete Guide (Link)  
  • How to Download and License Respondus 4.0 (Link)
  • How to Connect Respondus 4.0 to Your Blackboard Course (Link)
  • Formatting Questions to Import to Respondus (Link)  
    See Appendix page 49.
  • Exporting Respondus Exams Locally (Link)
  • Publishing Respondus Files to Blackboard (Link)
  • Retrieving and Printing Exams Using Respondus (Link)
  • Respondus Lockdown Browser
  • How to Set Up a Proctored Exam: Respondus Lockdown Browser Plus Additional Resources (Link) (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Set Up a Proctored Exam: Respondus Monitor Plus Additional Resources (Link) (Video) (Link)  

Grade Center

  • How to Access the Grade Center (Link)  
  • How to Grade Discussions (Link)  
  • How to Grade an Assignment (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Grade a Test (Link)  
  • Downloading Grades to a Spreadsheet (Link)
  • Creating Manual Grade Columns (Link)
  • Creating a Calculated Weighted Grade Column (Link)
  • Creating a Calculated Total Grade Column (Link)
  • How to Set an External Grade Column (Link)

Organizations

  • Enroll a Single User into an Organization (Link)
  • Batch Enrolls Users into an Organization (Link)
  • Organization Request Form (Link)

Collaborate Ultra

  • Features and Benefits (Link)
  • Collaborate Ultra: Important Things You Should Know (Video) (Link)
  • How to Add a Tool Link for Collaborate Ultra in Your Course Menu (Video) (Link)
  • How to Set Up a Session (Link)
  • How to Share Content (Link)
  • How to Locate a Recording Link (Video) (Link)
  • How to Download a Recording (Link)
  • How to View a Session Report (Video) (Link)
  • Transferring Collaborate Ultra Recordings to a New Course (Link)
  • How to Enable Recording in Groups Using Collaborate Ultra (Link)
  • How to Create Group Sets (Link)
  • Introduction to Breakout Groups in Collaborate Ultra (Video)
  • Introduction to Breakout Groups with Group Sets in Collaborate Ultra (Video)

Enterprise Survey

  • How to Create a Survey (Link)
  • How to Deploy a Survey (Link)
    • How to Analyze Survey Results (Link)
  • Naming Convention Guide (Link)

Grade Import

  • Configure your Column for Grade Import (Video) (Link)
  • Importing Grades into GUS (Video) (Link)

Group Sets

  • How to Create Group Sets (Link)
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