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

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

Pre-semester Checklist

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