Blackboard 9
Secret Sharer
Learning objectives
Dashboard (home page)
Home Page (Dashboard)
Use the home page for notifications
But sometimes they stick even though you read them
Add Grades to Dashboard
Course Menu
Email & Messages
Users have to provide email
Student options
This also turns off Messages!
Create a folder so you can move answered mail out of inbox
Replying to email: no attachment except those in course files
Only 1 attachment per email
Discussion Forums
Forums: confirm that each has moderation turned off
Forums: subscribe won’t work if you don’t turn on email
Blackboard Help
Help-these do not work
These work
Blackboard Help Page
Grade book
Needs Grading link will take you to things that need grading
Hide columns in Grade book
Student view of Grades
Grade Book: Use color to highlight grades or assignments to grade
Use grade to give student current letter grade automatically
Enter due date for graded events
Turn on statistics and show column to student
Manage students who drop
Tools
Tools: turn off tools you don’t use
Calendar
Calendar: 2 steps backward
Weekly view is most useful: but no hyperlink to course tools
File exchange
Contacts
Announcements roll over
Can link announcement to graded items
Textbook information
Be careful with chat
Tests
Examview will send tests to BB
Tests: Use single question view
Edit the Test Options
Grade details for a test
Assignments
Assignments
Grading
Download assignments is back
Reset an assignment
After you copy course to new shell
Fix (remove duplicates) Course Menu
Confirm all modules are here and expand them
Student view if teacher does not expand modules.
Delete old posts in discussions
Create folder so you can move messages from inbox
Check tools page, hide unneeded links
Open each column in Grade Center and change due date and show statistics
Summary