Faculty Tutorials
Technology Support Services offers some self-paced Blackboard tutorials designed to help you learn how to accomplish common tasks. Check back frequently for additional tutorials. If you have any questions concerning Blackboard training, please contact us at tsstraining@stthom.edu
These tutorials are PDF files and will require Adobe PDF Viewer.
Getting Started with BB 9:
New Interface and Basics
Dashboard Notification
Edit Mode
Visual Editor
Adding Course Content
Enrollment:
Enrolling Users
Making Students Unavailable
Viewing Student Enrollments
Announcements:
Linking the Announcement to Other Locations
Modifying and Deleting Announcements
Posting Announcements and Options
Course Content:
Adding Course Content General Overview
Editing Content, Files & Links
Adding Course Menu Items
Course Calendar:
Accessing Course Calendar and Adding an Event
Editing an Event
Deleting an Event
Early Warning System
Discussion Board:
Discussion Board Overview
Adding a Forum to a Discussion Board
Adding a Thread to a Forum in a Discussion Board
Hiding and Archiving Threaded Discussions
Managing Forums
Starting a Thread
Threaded Discussions
Viewing and Replying to Posted Threads
Email:
Sending Email
Assignment Tool:
Creating an Assignment
Downloading Assignments for Manual Grading
Grading Group Assignments
Grading Individual Assignments
Manual Assignment
Sending Graded Assignments Back to Students
Viewing Group Assignments
Viewing Individual Assignments
Needs Grading Feature
Course Tools:
Blogs
Creating a Blog
Editing a Blog
Creating a Blog Post
Commenting on a Post
Journals
Creating a Journal
Creating a Journal Entry
Commenting on a Journal Entry
Editing a Journal
Deleting a Journal
Changing the Availability of a Journal
Mashups
Creating Mashup Items (Flicker, SlideShare, Youtube)
Wikis
Creating a Wiki
Creating a Wiki Page
Contacts
Assessment Tools:
Adding Questions to a Pool
Adding Questions to a Survey
Adding Questions to a Test
Creating a Rubric
Creating a Survey & Survey Manager
Creating a Test (Quiz & Test Manager)
Importing a Rubric
Question Pool Manager
Self and Peer Assessment
Setting Options for a Survey
Setting Options for a Test & Quiz
Using the Pool Manager
Using the Survey Manager
Viewing & Grading Assignments
Viewing & Grading Tests
Viewing Survey Attempts
Grade Center:
Accessing the Grade Center
Change and Overide Grades from the View Grade Detail Page
Creating an Assignment
Creating Calculated Columns
-Average Calculated Columns
-Minimum and Maximum Column
-Total Column
-Weighted Column
Creating Grade Columns
Creating Reports
Download the Grade Center Spreadsheet
Emailing within the Grade Center
Entering Grades
Entering Grades from the View Grade Detail Page
Grade Center Overview
Grade History
Manually Change and Overide a Grade
Organizing the Grade Center
Upload Grade Center Spreadsheet
Group Management:
Group Home Page and Group Tools
Creating Group Assignments
Group Settings and Creation
-Create a Group Set with Self Enroll
-Create a Single Group with Manual Enroll
-Create a Group Set with Random Enroll
-Create a Single Group with Self Enroll
-Create a Single Group with Manual Enroll
Misc:
Setting Tool Availability
Hide Details of a Content Item
Adding My Messages Module
Add Test Student Tool
Browser Tester Tool
For additional previews and tutorials of some functions, visit the Blackboard corporate site.
NOTE: Some features discussed in the sites above will not be available for the initial UST release of Bb 9.
** The Blackboard On-Demand Learning Center contains materials and discussions for various versions and product lines of Blackboard. Not all content is applicable. We recommend that you review the Course Environment and Course Content sections. | 
