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BbMatters Section: Resources Articles:
Section Editor: Dr Barbara Newland

Adding Course Content

Managing the Gradebook

FAQs - Bb Basics

Support Documents for Staff

Getting Started in Blackboard

Date: April 2004  


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The resources in this edition have been chosen to reflect the Staff Development needs of institutions preparing for the new academic year. Following on from the success of Merv’s viewlet in the February edition we have decided to include more viewlets in this edition.

We have also included an example of a Blackboard FAQs (version 6) for staff (Guildford College ), links to Belfast Institute’s Support Materials and a number of Course Tip Sheets (version6) submitted by the Centre for Teaching and Learning, Georgian College, Canada.

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Adding Course ContentTo the top
by Merv Stapleton

Creating folders and Adding Files[1] (Bb ver. 6)
Copying Folders (Bb ver. 6) 
(Flash files - need Flash Player) Please note that Viewlets may take a longer time to download on 56K (or lower) modems.

Download instructions
Right-click on the link. Choose 'Save Target As...', 'Save Link As..' or 'Download Link to Disk'.
Choose a location to save the file; then click 'Save'.


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Managing The Gradebook To the top
by University of Richmond
Adding a new item to the gradebook (Bb ver. 5)
Exporting your gradebook (Bb ver. 5)
Modifying a grade (Bb ver. 5)
(Flash files - need Flash Player)

Download instructions
Right-click on the link. Choose 'Save Target As...', 'Save Link As..' or 'Download Link to Disk'.
Choose a location to save the file; then click 'Save'.


FAQs - Bb Basics
by Guildford College
Blackboard Basics Staff FAQs on how to:-
create course content,
use different course tools ( eg. virtual classroom, discussion boards, digital dropbox etc.)
apply different course options.

Support Documents for Staff
By Belfast Institute

The link above will take you to a series of articles to download (PDF files)


Getting Started in BlackboardTo the top


A series of tip sheets created by the Centre for Teaching and learning, Georgian College, Canada.
  1. Course Planning
    - Using Blackboard to Support Teaching and Learning
    - Planning you Course
    - Organizing your Course
    - Ideas for Using Blackboard
  2. File Management
    - File Management Quiz
    - File Management Answer Key
    - File Management Overview
  3. Customising Your Course
    Changing the Look
    - Personalizing the colours and buttons in my course
    - Adding a banner to my course
    Managing the Course Menu
    - Setting Course Availability in Blackboard
    - Changing the Course Menu Buttons and Area Availability
    - Enabling / disabling the communication tools in my Course
    (PDF files)

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