Working in your course

• Submitting an Assignment
• Taking a Test Online
• Checking Your Grades
• Creating a Discussion Board Post
• Creating a New Discussion Board Thread
• Replying to a Discussion Board Thread
• Viewing Discussion Board Grades
• Organizing Discussion Board Posts
• Working in Groups
• Creating a Blog Entry
• Viewing Discussion Board Grades
• Creating and Editing a Wiki Page
• Viewing My Contribution to a Wiki
• Linking Wiki Page

Navigating, Staying Organized, and Communicating

• Using the Course Map
• Adding Events to Your Calendar
• Stay Organized by Managing Your Course and Personal Tasks
• Sending Email From Your Course

Setting Your Preferences and controlling your Environment

• Changing the Color Theme on the My Institution Page
• Adding and Removing Modules on the My Institution Page
• Editing the My Institution Page Layout

SafeAssign for Students

• SafeAssign for Students, Submitting a Draft Assignment
• SafeAssign for Students, Submitting a Final Assignment
• SafeAssign for Students - Viewing the SafeAssign Report
• SafeAssign - Interpreting the SA Report

For additional training materials, faculty may access the Blackboard Training and Support course by signing into their Blackboard account. This course will be included under the ‘My Courses’ section of their Blackboard account.

Getting Started Control Panel Overview About the Course Menu Using Blackboard Help Downloading and Installing Firefox 3.6.x Your Course Environment   Adding a Banner to Your Course Entry Point   Adding an Avatar to Personalize Your Course Environment Creating Announcements   Sending Email   Manage your Course Create Content Area and Sort Add an Item (Course Outline and Schedule) Add a Folder Adding an Image Adding a Video Adding an Audio File Add a Course Link Uploading One or More Files to Your Course   Using the Text Editor   Creating a Tool Link   Adding a URL   Creating a Mashup   Attaching Course Files to a Content Item   Tour the Course Files Feature   Customizing a Course Customizing the Course Menu Assignments Creating an Assignment Downloading Assignments   Clean Out Graded Assignment Files   Discussion Board Discussion Board Overview Creating a Discussion Board Forum   Grading a Discussion Board Forum   Creating a Discussion Board Thread   Replying to a Discussion Board Thread   Grading a Discussion Board Thread   Searching the Discussion Board and Collecting Posts - New! Changing Discussion Board Forum Settings   Moderating Discussion Board Forums   Grade Center Viewing Grade Details   Creating a Grade Center Report   Creating a Grading Rubric - New! Associating a Rubric with a Gradable Item- New! Grading with Rubrics - New! Setting the Needs Grading Status and Grading Interactive Tools - New! Grading Assessments Question by Question   Viewing and Downloading Grade History   Working Offline with the Grade Center   Tests, Surveys, and Pools Creating a Test   Setting Test Options (includes setting the timer for a test) - New!   Reading Survey Results   Getting Started with Building a Test Read It! Tour the Question Finder Feature   Reading Survey Submissions   Exporting and Importing a Test or Survey   Uploading Test Questions from Microsoft® Excel   Creating a Fill in the Blank Question   Creating a Short Answer Question   Creating a Matching Question   Creating a True or False Question   Adding an Existing Question to a Test   Creating a Calculated Formula Question   Creating a Calculated Numeric Question   Creating an Essay Question   Creating a Fill in Multiple Blanks Question   Creating a Hot Spot Question   Creating a Jumbled Question   Creating a Likert Question   Creating a Multiple Answer Question   Creating a Multiple Choice Question   Creating an Ordering Question   Creating a Quiz Bowl Question   Tagging Questions for Reuse   Building a Pool   Creating a Random Block and Adding It to a Test

Managing Group Work Creating a Group   Creating Group Sets   Blogs and Journals Creating a Journal   Creating and Editing Journal Entries   Commenting on a Journal Entry   Creating a Blog   Creating and Editing Blog Entries   Commenting on a Blog Entry   Wikis Creating a Wiki   Adding Rich Content to a Wiki   Editing a Wiki Page   Linking Wiki Pages   Viewing a Wiki Page History - New!   Grading a Wiki   Advanced Blackboard Tools Paste From Word - Mashup Tool Exporting and Archiving a Course Bulk Delete Check Course Links Changing the Library Link Early Warning System Turning Tool Availability On and Off   Reporting and Course Utilities Turning On Statistics Tracking for a Content Item   Running a Report of All User Activity   Running a Report of User Activity by Forum   Running a Report of User Activity by Content Area   Running a Report of User Activity by Group   Saving a Course Report   Exporting a Course Package   Archiving a Course - New!   Importing a Course Package   Performance Dashboard   Sending Notifications   SafeAssign Using SafeAssign   Using Direct Submit Interpreting the SA Report Viewing and Grading the SA Report Wimba Wimba Voice Announcement Creating a Wimba Classroom Importing a PowerPoint into Wimba Recording a Wimba Archive Watching a Wimba Archive

Students

• Blackboard Help for Students
• SafeAssign (Plagiarism Prevention Service for Blackboard)

Instructors

• Blackboard Help for Instructors
• Respondus™ exam creator for Blackboard

Blackboard Mobile App

• Download Blackboard Mobile App

Browsers and Software Helpers

Click here to download software to help you use Blackboard.