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The Movie Tutorial modules below were originially created by a graduate student and then updated by our Blackboard Support team.

The following how-to guides include these following module:

• Managing Course Content
• Creating and Managing Assignment
• Managing Grades
• Assessing Student Performance using Assessment Tools
• Communicating with Students
• Engaging Students Through Group Projects

Closed captioning is available on every tutorial by clicking the CC button in the play bar. To view the tutorials, you are required to have Adobe Flash Player installed. To download and install Adobe Flash Player, go to http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Managing Course Content

In the Managing Course Content, you will learn how to use the the Content System and Content Areas within Blackboard to upload your files, such as a syllabi or course lecture materials, and organize them in a user-intuitive, structured manner.

1. Modifying Course Menu
2. Creating/Uploading a Syllabus
3. Organizing Course Materials for Week 1
4. Creating Instructor Profile
5. Posting a Class Announcement

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Creating and Managing Assignments

You will learn how to create assignments for your students, attach instructional documents to your assignments, and grade assignments that your students submit in Blackboard.

1. Creating an Assignment, Attaching a Document, and Setting the Availability
2. Retrieving and Grading the Assighment, Providing Feedback, and Returning the Assignment

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Managing Grades

The Blackboard gradebook can be used with tests and assignments deployed within Blackboard. It can also be used to keep track of grades of tests and assignments not contained within Blackboard. You will be introduced to a variety of gradebook components and learn how to create, manage, and navigate items within your gradebook.

1. Grading a Gradebook Item
2. Modifying Gradebook Items
3. Downloading Grades
4. Editing the Gradebook in Microsoft Excel
5. Uploading the Grades in Blackboard

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Assessing Student Performance using Assessment Tools

In this section you will learn how to create quizzes using question types ranging from multiple choice, true/false, and essay questions. You will learn how to customize your assessment with options including answer feedback, time limits, and multiple attempts. You will also learn how to deploy your assessments to students.

1. Creating an Assessment and Adding Questions
2. Making an Assessment Available to Students
3. Reviewing and Grading an Assessment

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Communicating with Students

Blackboard allows you to communicate with students online throughout your course. In this section you will learn how to send email and messages to your students through Blackboard and increase student interaction with the use of Blackboard's Discussion Board.

1. Sending Email to a Students
2. Sending Message to a Student
3. Creating a Forum in Discussion Board
4. Adding a New Thread in a Forum
5. Grading a Discussion Forum

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Engaging Students Through Group Projects

With Blackboard's Group Management tool you can create student groups and allow each group to have its own private discsussion board, file exchange, email list and chat room.

1. Creating Group Project Areas
2. Adding Students to a Group Project Area
3. Accessing Group Project Areas
4. Deploying a Group Page in Course Module/Folder

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This page was last updated on August 13, 2008.