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Step-by-step guides for Blackboard

PLEASE NOTE: The following guides our for Blackboard version 7.3. Our Blackboard server will be upgraded to 9.0 just before the summer session. Click here to learn more about Blackboard 9.0.

• Step-by-Step Instructions for Basic Blackboard Content Building
   
• The steps for copying over the content from one site to another. This process is very easy and usually only takes a few minutes to complete (for each site).
   
• Blackboard's Instructor Manual (PDF). Very lengthy and more descriptive than a step-by-step guide.
   
• Faculty Discussion Board Guide: A guide containing step-by-step instructions for using the Blackboard 7.3 Discussion Board
   
• Student Discussion Board Guide: A Blackboard 7.3 Discussion Board guide for students. Please feel free to pass it along to your classes or post within your Blackboard site.
   
• Assignments Tool: Complete Guide from LPC or an Assignment Tool overview from UNC.
   
• Blackboard Gradebook Guide: Stony Brook University provides an excellent guide to the features of the Blackboard Gradebook.

• Check out our Blackboard Upgrades page for news and information regarding current changes and plans for future upgrades.
   
• Giving Tests in Blackboard: Step-by-step: Steps and screenshots of how to create a test from scratch and how to deploy it (make it available to students).
   
• Giving Tests in Blackboard: Recommendations (PDF). This guide will give you recommendations regarding the creation and deployment of your test, and explains things like force completion. Courtesy of Northwest Nazarene University.
   
• Randomizing questions (using Random Block): How to create a test/quiz of random, but pre-selected questions even if the questions you want to use are in the Test Manager (PDF)
   
• Creating a Blackboard Course Banner using PowerPoint: Adapted by Mary Dermody, Computer Applications Instructor

• General guides within the BOLT site: There are useful step-by-step guides in the "Blackboard Online Learning Team" (BOLT) Blackboard site. All instructors who have received introductory training should have access to BOLT. To access these resources, login to Blackboard and go into the course site Blackboard Online Learning Team (BOLT) > BB RESOURCES > TEACHING WITH BLACKBOARD.
   
• Check out a list of Blackboard Features