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

• Adding a Test Student
• Adding My Messages Module
• Announcements: Linking to Other Places
• Browser Tester
• Bb Intro Home Page Interface
• Control Panel
• Course Contextual Menus
• Course Home Page Interface
• Course List Module— Showing and Hiding Courses
• Drag & Drop
• Edit Mode
• Modifying and Deleting Announcements
• Modules: Adding, Removing, Managing
• Modules: Adding and Removing
• Notifications Dashboard
• Posting Announcements: Options
• Sending Email
• Setting Tool Availability (Getting Started with BB 9)
• Theme Personalization
• Visual Text Editor

Enrollment

• Adding a Test Student
• Enrolling Users (new method for 2019)
• Making Users Unavailable
• Managing Users
• Roles & Privileges
• Viewing Student Enrollments

Course Content

• Adding Assessments
• Adding Course Content
• Adding Course Menu Items
• Adding Content Folders
• Adding Content Items
• Adding Files
• Adding Learning Modules
• Adding Links to External Websites
• Adding Tools
• 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

• Accessing
• Adding Events
• Adding Calendar Links to Course Menu
• Calendar Overview
• Deleting Events
• Editing Events
• Recurring Events

Blackboard Ally

• Quick Info Sheet (Blackboard Ally)
• Making Excel Workbooks More Accessible
• Making PowerPoint Presentations More Accessible
• Making Word Documents More Accessible

Other Tools

• Achievements and Rewards
• Contacts
• Customizing Course Properties
• Date Management
• Date Management Options
• Making Email Available to Students
• Sending Email from Blackboard
• Setting Tool Availability (Other Tools)

Communication & Collaboration:

Collaborate Ultra

• Complete Tutorial (Collaborate Ultra)
• Quick-Start Guide
• System Requirements
• Blackboard Integration
• Accessing the Conference Room
• Managing the Conference Room
• Session Interface
• Sharing Content
• Leaving the Room
• Managing Recordings
• Accessibility Tips
• 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 Forums
• Editing Threads
• Emailing Users
• Enabling Grading
• Enabling Group Discussion Boards
• Filtering Threads
• Forum Settings
• 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
• Editing Groups
• Exporting Groups
• Creating Group Assignments
• Group Views
• Home Page Tools
• Importing Groups
• My Group View
• 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
• Editing a Blog

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 Availability
• Creating a Wiki
• Creating a Wiki Page
• Deleting Wikis and Wiki Pages
• Editing a Wiki
• Viewing Details

Portfolios and Artifacts

• Overview
• 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
• Messages
• People
• Spaces
• 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
• Needs Grading (Assignment Tools )
• Other Buttons
• 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
• Editing a Test
• Exporting and Importing Tests
• Item Analysis
• Making a Test Available
• Test Options
• 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 History
• Grade Center Overview
• Grade Schemas: Overview
• Manually Changing/Overriding Grades
• Needs Grading (Grade Center )
• 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

• Creating Rules
• Customizing Retention Center
• Deleting Rules
• Modifying Rules
• Retention Center Overview
• Retention Center Page

Mediasite Applications

• Complete Tutorial (Mediasite Applications)
• Quick Info Sheet (Mediasite Applications)