Blackboard Guides

NB: There are Blackboard guides for students in the For students section of the eLearning webpages.

Using Blackboard to Support Learning & Teaching

• Using Blackboard to support learning and teaching (43Kb)
  Some ideas for using Blackboard to support learning and teaching in the Faculty
• Blackboard Orientation for Instructors (81Kb)
  A Blackboard introduction for instructors

Best Practice

• Attaching documents that open in a new window (74Kb)
  It is good web design practice to open all attachments in a new window
• Blackboard Netiquette (30Kb)
  Some tips on effective online communication
• Copyright Cheatsheet (59Kb)
• Application to Activate Checklist (35Kb)

General Blackboard How To Guides

• Add an announcement in Blackboard (59Kb)
  How to add announcements to your Blackboard site
• Make an existing content area available (91Kb)
  How to make an existing content area available
• Create a new content area or tool (53Kb)
  How to create a new content area or tool in your Blackboard site
• Move or copy content (85Kb)
  How to move or copy content within or across the sites you're teaching
• Transferring content between two sites (39Kb)
  How to transfer information between Blackboard sites
• How to selectively control content release (43Kb)
  How to use Adaptive Release in the manage function to selectively release or restrict content for students.
• Creating an assessment item (110Kb)
  A Quick Guide for Lecturers on how to set up assessment items

Blackboard Tool Help

Discussion Board

• Setting up & managing a Discussion Board (151Kb)
  Set up and manage your Blackboard Discussion Board

Online Assessment Submission

• How to create, download and grade an online assignment (74Kb)
  How to create, download and grade an online assignment

Grade Centre

• Blackboard Grade Centre (281Kb)
  An introduction to setting up Grade Center
• Run Macro to merge marks of two files (147Kb)
  A guide to help staff to match an Excel spreadsheet to Grade Center, Windows PC only (you will need to download both of the following macros)
  • Merge from Macro
  • Macro install file (with instructions)
• Create Final Mark column (543Kb)
  A guide to help staff who are only using Grade Center for the PORS for Semester 2 2008

Groups

• How to set up groups (75Kb)
  How to set up group in Blackboard

Video on Blackboard

• Adding video to Blackboard (208Kb)

Respondus

• How to import a pre-written quiz to Blackboard using Respondus (72Kb)
  A two-part guide to importing pre-written quizzes or surveys into Blackboard using Respondus
• How to Create a quiz or survey using Respondus (24Kb)
  How to Create a quiz or survey using Respondus

SafeAssignment

• Add a SafeAssignment to your site (70Kb)
  How to add a SafeAssignment to your site for students to use to check their draft assignments

Wikis

• Setting up a Wiki (102Kb)
  How to set up and maintain a wiki in Blackboard

Blogs

• Setting up a Blog (131Kb)
  How to set up and maintain a blog  in Blackboard

Sample Instruction text

Copy the text from these sample files and paste it into the relevant place in Blackboard, or use the sample text as a guide for what to write yourself.

• Student assessment submission using the Blackboard Assignment function (774)
  If you are planning to use electronic submission of assessment via the Assignment function in Blackboard, we recommend adding the following instructions for students to the instructions field. Copy and paste from the box below, and edit as suits your needs.
• Student submission of draft work for plagiarism checking using SafeAssignment (1Kb)
  SafeAssignment is provided by the Faculty as an educational tool for students to check and improve their paraphrasing and academic referencing skills. If you are planning to provide your students with access to SafeAssignment in your unit, you can put the following into the SafeAssignment instructions field. Copy and paste from the box below, and edit as suits your needs. We recommend that you edit these instructions to include an indication for students of what percentage of cited work is acceptable for the assessment piece. This is indicated by the percentage matching score. Go to the text matching page for more information about SafeAssignment.
  
  NB: Please note that the SafeAssignment function is intended for use with draft documents, rather than final submission documents.