Blackboard Learn:

Blackboard Learn Tutorials for Instructors

Blackboard Learn YouTube Channel

Blackboard Video Tutorials from ATLAS

• Quick Tips

  • Make Course Available

  • Folder Availability - How to reopen a folder for students in Blackboard

• Getting Started with Blackboard (printable instructions)

  • Blackboard Shell Tour - Quick overview

  • Customize Blackboard Menu

  • Add Syllabus & Calendar in Course Information

  • Customization - Course ID, Course Name, Theme, Banner

  • Make Course Available

  • Blackboard Overview (text)

  • Instructor Features

  • Student Preview

• Communication

  • Email

  • Announcements

• Content (printable instructions)

  • Organize Content with Folders - Weeks, Units, Modules

  • Organize Content with Items within Folders  - A Template for Each Week, Unit, Module

  • Add Content Including ilos, ShareStream, YouTube Videos

  • Course Documents - Rubrics Folder, Long-term Project Folder

• Collaboration (printable instructions)

  • Discussion Board and Journals

    • Create Discussion Forum

    • Link Discussion Forum in Assignments folder

    • Grade Discussion Board

    • Group Discussions & Assignments

    • Grading Journals

• Assignments (printable instructions)

  • Blackboard Assignments Tour

  • Create Assignment

  • Grading Assignments in Blackboard (below are 2 different methods for grading assignments)

    • Inline Grading of Assignments

    • Download Assignments for Offline Grading

  • SafeAssign (SafeAssign is the plagiarism detector that can be enabled on assignments)

    • Understanding the SafeAssign Originality Report

    • Direct Submit  (This can be used when the original assignment wasn't set up to use SafeAssign.  An instructor can directly submit a paper to SafeAssign to check for plagiarism.

• Grade Center (printable instructions)

  • Grade Center Interface

  • Needs Grading Page

  • Grading

    • Why Use a Rubric

    • Create a Rubric

    • Associate a Rubric with an Assignment

    • Grade with a Rubric

    • Export a Rubric to Use in Another Course

    • Enter Grades in the Grade Center

    • Grade Details Page

    • Override/Change Grade

    • Exempt a Grade

    • Delete or Clear a Grade or Attempt (Sometimes a student may submit an assignment then immediately notify you they submitted the wrong file.  This page shows you how to clear the attempt for a student so they can resubmit the correct file).

    • Email Students from the Grade Center

• Tests (printable instructions)

  • Tests & Quizzess Tour

  • Build Test or Quiz

  • Deploy Test in Assignments Folder

  • Copy, Export, Import Tests & Quizzes

  • Grade Tests

  • Resolve Student Issues with Blackboard Tests

• Course Creation

  • Duplicating a course from another course - Import/Export method

  • How to Copy a Course from another Course