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Teaching with Blackboard

Tutorials

The following tutorials provide a step-by-step approach for common Blackboard tasks.

Getting Started

  • Accessing Blackboard Tutorial Tutorial
  • Adding New Buttons Tutorial Tutorial
  • Making the Course Available to Students Tutorial Tutorial

Course Content

  • Brief Introduction to Podcasting Tutorial Tutorial
  • Creating a Course Podcast in Blackboard Tutorial Tutorial

Communications

  • Changing Viewing Options for Private Messages Tutorial Tutorial
  • Online Collaboration: Configuring Access Rights for Active and Passive Users Tutorial Tutorial
  • Digital Dropbox Tutorial Tutorial

Assessments

  • Changing a Question in a Pre-existing Test Tutorial Tutorial
  • Making an Exam Unavailable Tutorial Tutorial
  • Adding Images to a Test Question Tutorial Tutorial
  • Creating an Exam from Test Pools Tutorial Tutorial
  • Adding an Assignment and Downloading All the Attached Files Related to that Assignment Tutorial Tutorial

Question Types

These tutorials, developed by Patrick Crispen at California State University, Long Beach, walk step-by-step through using the new questions types in Blackboard 6.3. *Note - CSULB refers to their installation of Blackboard as "BeachBoard" and they utilize this nomenclature throughout their tutorials.

Gradebook

  • Changing Gradebook Item Attributes Tutorial Tutorial
  • Assigning Variant Values to Letter Grades for Different Assignments Tutorial Tutorial

Groups

Communities

  • Learn how to get started using a Blackboard community Tutorial Tutorial

Student Management

Version 7.1

  • Blackboard Version 7.1: Introduction to New Features and Tools Tutorial Tutorial

Last Updated: 04/24/08