Blackboard Printable Helpsheets

TLC Workshop Handouts

• Basics of BB 9.1 -- workshop handout
• Intro to the BB gradecenter_9.1

Best Practices

• SafeAssign and Academic Honesty workshop handout
• Blackboard information for students - handout
• Mid-course surveys
• Universal Design (Quick Start Guide) for ADA section 508 compliance

Basics

• Making a Bb course available
• Uploading course documents to Bb
• Uploading Your Syllabus from an Existing File
• Creating a discussion forum and thread
• Emailing students from Bb
• Organizing your course (Quick Start Guide)
• Reusing and Reorganizing Your Courses (Quick Start Guide)

Blackboard Tools:

• Creating a blog topic
• Creating a course wiki
• Creating discussion forums and threads
• Creating group links
• Creating Journal topics
• Differences between Discussion forums, blogs and wikis

Content Creation

• Presenting Content (Quick Start Guide)
• Creating Course Content (Quick Start Guide)
• Embedding videos into Blackboard

Assessments

• Keeping Students Informed (Quick Start Guide)
• Collaboration (Quick Start Guide)
• Measuring Student Performance (Quick Start Guide)

Grade Center

• Intro to the Blackboard Grade center

Productivity

• Setting Up a WebDAV Folder - Mac Instructions
• Setting Up a WebDAV Folder - Windows Instructions

Files for Importing to Blackboard:

• Mid-course Survey instructions: Survey_ExportFile_Org-TLC_Mid-Course.zip

Third-party tools for Blackboard:

• iClickers -- instructions for integrating with BB and other helpsheets
• Respondus LockDown Browser in Blackboard for Quizzes or Exams