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Step-by-step Guides and Instructions

Basic Content Building:

• Step-by-step instructions for basic content building
• Blackboard 9 Quick Start Guide (a brief .pdf guide to getting started with Blackboard 9).
• Blackboard Learn Instructor Guide
• Blackboard Help for Instructors (a help site provided by Blackboard)

Managing the Course Menu: 

• Step-by-Step Guide for Managing your Course Menu (Cal Poly)

Grade Center:

• Blackboard Grade Center Guide
• QuickStart Guide: Using the Grade Center (HWS Colleges)
• Weighting Grades (GVS University)

Assignments Tool:

• Getting Started with Assignments  
• Assignment Tool overview (USC)

Groups:

• Getting Started with Groups

Tests/Quizzes:

• Getting Started with Building Tests (PDF)
• Do you need to import your tests into Blackboard? Learn about about Respondus
• How to Create a Test of Randomly-Generated Questions from a TestGen Pool (PDF)
• Considerations & Recommendations When Giving Tests in Blackboard

Course Management:

• 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).
• How to Make your Blackboard site Available/Unavailable to students

Please Note: The following guides our for Blackboard version 7.3. We are in the process of updating the guides for our newly upgraded version, Blackboard Learn 9.0. Learn more about Blackboard 9.0.

• 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.
• 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.
  
• Check out a list of Blackboard Features