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Faculty Videos

Blackboard has created quick on-demand interactive videos for faculty members who are using Blackboard 9.1. The videos are broken out below by common tasks you might perform while using Blackboard for your courses. Videos are short with most between 3 and 5 minutes long. Each video provides user controls so you can start, stop, fast forward, or review to parts you missed.

Keep visiting this page, ACS will continue to publish more Blackboard 9.1 videos as they become available. 

 

   WATCH Blackboard On-Demand Videos

   READ various knowledge base articles

General Overview Information

• Orientation to the basic Blackboard classroom for faculty

 Semester Startup

•  Course Overview  

•  Course Overview  

•  Changing Course Entry Point

•  Making Course Available

•  Importing previous Course Material to New Course

•  Creating a Banner

•   Course Tool Availability

• Creating Announcements

• Sending Email

• Sending Blackboard Messages 

Designing and Building You Course

•  Getting Started with Course Content

•  Using the Text Editor

•  Editing the Course Home Page

•   Creating a Tool Link

•  Creating a Blank Page Tool (New Feature)

•  Adding an External Link (URL)

•  Course Files: Overview (New Feature)

•  Course Files: Attaching to a Content Item (New Feature)

•   Course Files: Adding Web Content (New Feature)

•   Creating Rules to Release a Course Content Item 

•   Change and Enforce Course Language

•   Creating Course Tasks

•  Creating Course Contacts 

•   Creating a Lesson Plan

•  Adding a Glossary Term

Grade Center  

•  Grade Center Overview 

•  Customizing the Grade Center View

•  Creating Smart Views

•   Creating a Grade Rule

•  Viewing Grade Details

•  Anonymous Grading (New Feature)

•  Creating Grading Notes  

•   Creating a Grade Center Report

•  Creating a Grading Rubric (New Feature)

•  Grading Assessments: Question-by-Question

•  Viewing and Downloading Grade History

•   Color Code the Grade Center (New Feature)

•  Download Grade Center to Excel Spreadsheet

•  Upload Grades to Grade Center from Excel Spreadsheet

Tests, Surveys, and Pools   

•  Getting Started with Building a Test

•  The Sample Quiz - Help Prepare Students for Online Tests

•  Creating a Test

•  Building a Question Pool

•  Creating a Random Block and adding to a Test

•  Exporting/Importing a Test/Survey

•  View Individual Survey Statistics per Question  

•  Queston Finder Overview (New Feature)

•  Uploading Test Questions from Excel (New Feature)

•  Adding an Existing Question to a Test 

•  Entering Metadata to your Test Questions 

Creating Test Questions within the Test Canvas (14 questions types):

•  Fill in the Blank Question Type

•  Short Answer Question Type

•  Matching Question Type 

•  True or False Question Type

•  Calculated Formula Question Type

•   Essay Question Type

•  Fill in the Multiple Blanks Question Type

•  Hot Spot Question Type

•  Jumbled Question Type  

•  Likert Question Type

•  Multiple Answer Question Type

•   Multiple Choice Question Type

•  Ordering Question Type

•  Quiz Bowl Question Type 

Discussion Board 

• Creating a Discussion Board Forum
• Grading a Discussion Board Forum
• Creating a Discussion Board Thread
• Replying to a Discussion Board Thread
• Grading Discussion Board Threads
• Searching the Discussion Board and Collecting Posts
• Tagging Discussion Board Posts
• Rating Discussion Board Posts
• Managing Discussion Board Roles
• Changing Discussion Board Forum Settings
• Moderating Discussion Board Forums

Groups  

•  Getting Started using the Group Tool

•  Creating a Group

•  Creating Group Sets

Assignment Tool/SafeAssign/Learning Module 

•  Getting Started using the Assignment Tool

•  Downloading Assignments

•  Assignment File Clean-up

•  Using SafeAssign 

•  Building a Learning Module

Blogs/Journals/*Wikis (*NEW Blackboard Tool)  

•  Creating a Blog

•  Creating and Editing Blog Entries

•  Commenting on a Blog Entry

•   Creating a Journal

•  Commenting on a Journal Entry

•  Creating a Wiki  (New Feature)

•  Editing a Wiki Page (New Feature)  

•  Viewing a Wiki Page History (New Feature)

•  Grading a Wiki (New Feature)

Course Reporting and Utilities  

•  Statistic Tracking: Course Content Item 

•  Report of All User Activity

•  Report of User Activity by Discussion Board Forum

•   Report of User Activity by Course Content Area

•  Report of User Activity by Group

•  Saving a Course Report

•  Import Course Package  

•  Performance Dashboard

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