Hide past courses True Student View Download Grades Inline Grading Hide GradeCenter Item Blackboard YouTube Channel Lots of BB info and other tips in my OET8000 Course which you are a student in, and that’s real student view!
In case you forgot this is just a reminder that you now have the ability to check exactly what your students see when they are in your Blackboard course. You just click on this icon to get to this view. Here is a short video explaining more on this neat feature. Not sure about roles? … Read more
Organize Your Course and Students Using The New Blackboard Calendar Tool OCTOBER 22, 2014 BY CHRISTOPHER SHEEHAN 2 COMMENTS To be successful in online courses, students must quickly learn to be organized. In fact, organization is the key to a successful learning environment. Without organization, students quickly become derailed from the course timeline and must … Read more
Using Common Blackboard Tools in Non-Traditional Ways MAY 29, 2015 BY OBIAGELI SNEED 6 COMMENTS The Blackboard Learning Management system offers a variety of tools that help instructors manage the process of delivering instruction within an online course. Some of these functions are more commonly used such as discussion boards, groups, and the assignment feature, … Read more
Here’s the solution! Launch System Preferences, either from the dock or from the Apple menu. Once the System Preferences window opens, select the General preference pane. The middle section of the General preference pane controls when scroll bars appear and a few additional scroll bar options. To return the scroll bars to their pre-Lion functionality, … Read more
Yes Fall 2014 Semester begins in just over a month, on Tuesday August 26. For those of you who did not teach a class this summer you may remember that Blackboard went through an upgrade/enhancement after Spring Semester. OET will be glad to review these enhancements just give a call. Blackboard Blog has many links … Read more
With the end of Spring Semester instructors often like to download grades from Blackboard, (go to Grade Center, select Work Offline, select download and follow the prompts to get an Excel workbook of grades for the semester) please remember that those files should be stored on your pirate drive or department pirate drive not your … Read more
Here is a quick video on what courses will look like after the Blackboard Upgrade! Check out the Blackboard Blog for more info!
When you open your course for the first time after the BB upgrade it will not look very different! Here is how you add content and here is something new Inline Grading! Check back for posts on some of the neat new features in BB upgrade!
Some of you signed up for the Pilot but others will have to wait until Summer to take advantage of the new features! To highlight a few, you will be able to drag and drop grade center columns directly in grade center (you won’t have to go to Manage). The Calendar has been completely restructured … Read more
Every year old courses are purged from Blackboard. This is done to stay within storage goals and business policy of keeping only two years of Blackboard sites in the production system. In a few short weeks, Blackboard Admins will be purging the following courses (all of them) unless you submit a request to have your … Read more
Per ITCS’ Blackboard Blog – Blackboard Learn, Version 9.1, Service Pack 9 (SP9) includes a new look and feel that will enhance the experience for instructors, students, and administrators. Users already familiar with Bb 9.1 will be pleased with the additional functionality that SP9 offers. Check out this link for more information on the newest … Read more
I offered a summer challenge last week to try something new. Answer these questions about your Blackboard course and try baby steps by making some changes in you BB course! Have you added a banner? Have you changed the color scheme, the buttons? Do you still use Course Information rather than calling it Syllabus. Do … Read more