Faculty Tutorials

Faculty Tutorials

UST 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 the IT Help Desk at ithelpdesk@stthom.edu.

Special Notice regarding Blackboard Updates:
Beginning in January 2019, UST's Blackboard is now hosted in a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment, rather than locally. This means that minor updates to the application will occur more frequently, which may result in changes to the user interface. Therefore, our tutorial documents may not contain the most recent available information or screenshots. The great majority of the information, however, will be sufficiently correct.

These tutorials are PDF files and will require Adobe Reader.

Tutorial Table of Contents:

Fundamentals & Content:

Getting Started with BB 9 — navigating BB, customizing the Dashboard
Enrollment — viewing and managing user lists
Course Content — items, files, folders, links, Mashups
Course Calendar — adding and editing appointments
Blackboard Ally *NEW* — making documents and graphics more accessible for users with disabilities
Other Tools —contacts, date management, sending email

Communication & Collaboration:

Collaborate Ultra — scheduling, moderating, and recording conference sessions
Discussion Board — forums, threads, moderating posts
Group Management — groups, group sets, assignments
Blogs — creating, adding entries, commenting, editing
Journals — creating, adding entries, commenting, editing
Wikis — creating, adding pages, commenting, editing
Portfolios and Artifacts — creating, customizing, viewing, sharing
Social Learning Tools — profile, People, Messages, Spaces
Mediasite Applications (upgraded 8/13/2018) — lecture capture, video management and editing

Grading & Assessment:

Assessment Tools — tests, surveys, question pools
Assignment Tools — creating, uploading, and grading
Tests — creating questions, editing, advanced options
Grade Center — organizing columns, calculations, Smart Views
Retention Center — monitoring at-risk students
Rubrics — creating, associating with assessments

Fundamentals & Content:

Getting Started with BB 9

Adding a Test Student

Adding My Messages Module

Announcements: Linking to Other Places

Bb Intro Home Page Interface

Course Contextual Menus

Course Home Page Interface

Course List Module— Showing and Hiding Courses

Modifying and Deleting Announcements

Modules: Adding, Removing, Managing

Modules: Adding and Removing

Notifications Dashboard

Posting Announcements: Options

Setting Tool Availability

Theme Personalization

Visual Text Editor

Enrollment

Adding a Test Student

Enrolling Users (new method for 2019)

Making Users Unavailable

Roles & Privileges

Viewing Student Enrollments

Course Content

Adding Assessments

Adding Course Content

Adding Course Menu Items

Adding Content Folders

Adding Content Items

Adding Learning Modules

Adding Links to External Websites

Attaching a File to an Item

Building Content

Content Availability and Options

Create a Mashup

Deleting Content Items, Files, Links

Editing Content Items, Files, Links

File Size Guidelines

Hiding Item Details

Moving and Copying Content Items

Text Editor Box

Course Calendar

Adding Calendar Links to Course Menu

Calendar Overview

Deleting Events

Recurring Events

Blackboard Ally

Quick Info Sheet

Making Excel Workbooks More Accessible

Making PowerPoint Presentations More Accessible

Making Word Documents More Accessible

Other Tools

Achievements and Rewards

Customizing Course Properties

Date Management

Date Management Options

Making Email Available to Students

Sending Email from Blackboard

Setting Tool Availability

Communication & Collaboration:

Collaborate Ultra

Complete Tutorial

Quick-Start Guide

System Requirements

Blackboard Integration

Accessing the Conference Room

Managing the Conference Room

Session Interface

Sharing Content

Leaving the Room

Managing Recordings

New and Enhanced Features (new!)

Discussion Board

Accessing Discussion Board

Changing Thread Display

Changing Thread Status

Collecting Threads

Creating Forums

Creating Threads

Deleting Forums and Threads

Disabling Grading

Editing Threads

Enabling Grading

Enabling Group Discussion Boards

Filtering Threads

Grading Forum Participation

Grading Thread Participation

Group Discussion Board Settings

Linking to DB from a Content Item

Linking to DB from the Course Menu

Making Group Discussion Boards Unavailable

Moderating Forums

Reordering Forums

Replying to Threads

Sorting Threads

Thread Detail Page

Using List and Tree View

Viewing the Discussion Board Page

Viewing a Discussion Forum

Viewing Discussion Board Statistics

Group Management

Overview: Groups

Exporting Groups

Creating Group Assignments

Home Page Tools

Importing Groups

Navigating Group Page

Sets: Manual Enroll

Sets: Random Enroll

Sets: Self-Enroll

Settings and Creation

Single Groups: Manual Enroll

Single Groups: Self-Enroll

Blogs

Commenting on a Blog Post

Creating a Blog

Creating a Blog Post

Journals

Changing Availability of a Journal

Commenting on a Journal

Creating a Journal

Creating a Journal Entry

Deleting a Journal

Editing a Journal

Wikis

Change Availablity

Creating a Wiki

Creating a Wiki Page

Deleting Wikis and Wiki Pages

Viewing Details

Portfolios and Artifacts

Commenting on Portfolios

Creating Portfolio Assignments

Downloading Portfolios

Making Oneself Browsable

Saving Assignments as Artifacts

Sharing Portfolios

Viewing Artifacts

Viewing Portfolios

Viewing Shared Portfolios

Social Learning Tools

Creating a Profile

Social Learning Course Structure

Grading & Assessment:

Assignment Tools

Allowing Additional Attempts

Assignment Inline Grading

Creating a Manual Assignment

Creating an Assignment

Downloading Assignments for Manual Grading

Grading Anonymously

Grading Group Assignments

Grading Individual Assignments

How Students Submit

Modifying Assignments

Sending Graded Assignments Back to Students

Viewing Graded Assignments

Viewing Group Assignments

Viewing Individual Assignments

Assessment Tools

Adding Questions to Pool

Adding Questions to Survey

Creating Random Blocks

Editing a Survey

Making a Survey Available

Using Pool Manager

Using Survey Manager

Viewing Survey Statistics

Tests

Creating a Test

Creating Test Questions

Creating Question Sets

Exporting and Importing Tests

Making a Test Available

Uploading Test Questions

Viewing and Grading Tests

Viewing Test Statistics

Grade Center

Accessing Full Grade Center

Applying Categories to Columns

Changing/Overriding Grades From the Grade Details Page

Clearing Assessment Attempts

Copying and Deleting Grade Schemas

Creating Average Calculated Columns

Creating Categories

Creating Grade Columns

Creating Grade Schemas

Creating Min/Max Columns

Creating Reports

Creating SmartViews

Creating Total Columns

Creating Weighted Columns

Downloading a Grade Center Spreadsheet

Editing/Copying/Deleting SmartViews

Editing Categories

Editing Grade Schemas

Emailing Within Grade Center

Entering Grades

Entering Grades From Grade Details Page

Grade Center Overview

Grade Schemas: Overview

Manually Changing/Overriding Grades

Organizing Grade Center

SmartViews: Overview

Uploading a Grade Center Spreadsheet

Rubrics

Applying Rubrics in Grade Center

Copying and Editing Rubrics

Creating Rubrics

Editing the Rubric Grid

Exporting Rubrics

Grading Using Rubrics

Importing Rubrics

Printing Rubric

Running a Rubric Evaluation Report

Viewing a Rubric While Grading

Viewing Associated Content

Retention Center

Customizing Retention Center

Modifying Rules

Retention Center Overview

Retention Center Page

Mediasite Applications

Complete Tutorial

Quick Info Sheet