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Overview
Frequently Asked Questions
Create a New Course
Hands-on Training

Bb Content Areas
Online Quizzes / Tests
Online Surveys
Submit Assignments Online
Grade Assignments Online
Digital Dropbox
Online Gradebook
Discussion Boards
Collaboration Tools
Course Management

BlackBoard at BYU-Idaho

Create a new course in Blackboard

Publisher created content for BlackBoard
(course cartridges)

Frequently Asked Questions

BlackBoard Training Workshops & Documents

On-campus Training Workshops
(Hands-on workshops held in the ITC - McKay 355)

Overview

• Overview - The BlackBoard Learning System
  (14 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Overview - What's New for Instructors in BlackBoard (version 6)
  (2 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• What's New in Blackboard (version 6)
  (Detailed Admin Document)
  (40 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Blackboard 6.1 Instuctor Manual
  (355 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Student User Guide
  (166 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)

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Content Areas

• Copy course content into another Blackboard course
  (1 pg PDF - source: Georgian College)
• Copy course content to another area of a course
  (4 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
  (Note: Navigate to page 210 in the PDF document; Chapter 4)
• Modifying your course design / building custom navigation
  (2 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Adding Math/Science equations online
  (6 pg PDF - source: Swarthmore College)
• Creating learning units
  (3 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Importing an entire web site into Bb
  (3 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
  
  BlackBoard Course Cartridge Catalog (HTML)
  (publisher provided BlackBoard materials to supplement printed textbooks)

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Quizzes/Tests & Surveys

• Creating assessments
  (12 pg PDF - source: Swarthmore College)
• Making assessments available
  (2 pg PDF - source: Georgian College)
• Creating (importing) an online quiz from a Word document
  (6 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Online Quiz Generator
  (HTML) (Import a quiz into Bb from a Word document - source: BYU-Idaho)

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Assignments / Digital Drop Box

• Assignments & the digital drop box -- what's different
  (3 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Creating an assignment
  (2 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Receiving & completing an assignment
  (student view)
  (2 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Receiving assignments from students and giving feedback
  (2 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)

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Online Gradebook

• Adding assignments into the online gradebook
  (1 pg PDF - source: Georgian College)
• What gradebook symbols mean
  (2 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Exporting grades to Excel / Importing grades from Excel
  (5 pg PDF - source: Swarthmore College)
• Weighting grades
  (2 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Grouping and modifying items for grade weighting
  (2 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
• Using letter grades and percentages
  (5 pg PDF - source: BlackBoard)
  (Note: Navigate to page 315 in the PDF document; Chapter 6)

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Tools for Collaboration

• Collaboration Tools Comparison
• Wiki (collaborative work space)
  Course Wiki  |  Assignment Wiki
  (HTML - source: BYU-Idaho)
• Blog (web log or journal)
  Course Blog  |  Assignment Blog
  (HTML - source: BYU-Idaho)
• Creating discussion boards
  (3 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Discussion board options
  (3 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Archiving discussion boards
  (2 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Creating and managing groups
  (2 min. HTML animation - source: BlackBoard)
• Online whiteboard and virtual classroom
  (10 pg PDF - source: Bryn Mawr College)

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Course Management

• Combining multiple sections into one BlackBoard course
  (This option is again available. The tool exists in the "create a course" dialog box -- see left column)
• Viewing course statistics
  (2 pg PDF - source: Georgian College)

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