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Getting Started!

Blackboard Course Delivery™Essentials Workshop Bb 9.1

City Colleges of Chicago

Learning Objectives

What’s New in Blackboard 9.1 Blackboard Instructors Course

http://ccc.blackboard.com/

Blackboard Instructors Course

Blackboard Instructors Course includes: Training Materials(online tutorials, handouts,

and face-to-face trainings) Discussion Boards Faculty Resources

Blackboard Instructors Course 7.1

http://ccc.blackboard.com

What’s New in Blackboard 9.1

Improved Interfaceo Drag and Drop Featureo Drop Down Menuso Content Reordering

Edit Modeo Easy Management of Courseo Quickly Access Student view

What’s New in Blackboard 9.1

Announcementso Instructors can drag and dropo Email

Assignmentso Deploy assignments to all students or to a

group of students Allows instructors to assign a single grade, override a group

grade, and assign single student a grade

Test, Surveys, and Questionso Instructors can reorder questions in a test or

survey using drag and drop feature

What’s New in Blackboard 9.1

Improved Content Managemento Embedded Editing Toolso Mashups(Multimedia)o Content can be Copied or Moved to New

Area/Courseo Empty Course Menu Items are

Automatically Hidden from Students

Inline Confirmationso Confirmations now appear on the same

page

What’s New in Blackboard 9.1

Blog/Wikis and Journalso Allows students to share ideas

With each other With the instructor

o The Journal replaces the Electric Board for Student/Instructor Contact

o Blog replaces the Student Homepage

What’s New in Blackboard 9.1

Files Groups

o Instructors can create any number of groups at once Students can be assigned

o Randomlyo Manuallyo Students can self-select

Login to Blackboard 9.1

Login to the staging server to access Blackboard 9.1

http://cccstaging.blackboard.com/