Guides

(Visit the Blackboard 9 Instructor How-To Guide Home Page)

• Getting Started

  • How do I log in? (College and SBS)
  • How do I log in (Law School only)
  • How do I enter edit mode to customize and add information to my course?
  • How do I see what a student sees?
  • How can I learn more about the differences for Instructors between Blackboard 7 and Blackboard 9?
  • How do I make my course available to students?
  • How do I change the first screen that students see when they log in to in a course?
  • How do I run the Wimba Wizard?
  • How do I access the MGT-317 experiential project supporting documents for my course?

• Communication

  • How do I add an announcement?
  • How can I send my students email?
  • What is the Alert and Notification system?
  • How can my students send email in the course?

• Adding Content

  • How do I add files and documents?
  • How do I add a web link?
  • How do I add a folder?
  • How do I embed a picture or image as part of an Item?
  • How do I embed an image from Flickr?
  • How do I discover and embed a YouTube video?
  • How do I embed a video from the web?
  • How do I access the MGT-317 experiential project supporting documents for my course?

• Discussion Board Forums

  • How do I add a discussion board forum?

• Working With Assignments

  • Where is the Dropbox?
  • How do I add an assignment?
  • How do I download submitted assignments to my computer?
  • How do I upload feedback associated with the grade?

• Grade Center

  • How do I create a new column?
  • How do I enter grades into columns?
  • How do I create new grading categories?
  • How do I set category weights for the categories I created?
  • How do I change the category of a created Assignment?
  • How do I download submitted papers to my computer?

• Managing the Course Menu

  • How do I add new links to the course menu?
  • How do I add external weblinks to the course menu?
  • How do I add a blank page to the course menu?
  • How do I hide or show menu links to students?
  • How do I delete or rename menu links?
  • How do I change the order of menu links?
  • How do I change the style of the course menu?
  • How do I get the course menu back if it’s missing?

• Blogs, Journal, & Wikis

  • What is the difference between a blog and a journal?
  • How do I add a blog to my course?
  • How do I link to a blog?
  • How do I create a journal?
  • How do I link to a journal?

• Tests & Quizzes

  • How do I create a new test?
  • How do I make a test available and/or set availability options for it?

• Wimba Live Classroom

  • How do I set up LiveClassroom?
  • How do I run the Wimba Wizard?
  • How do I add a Powerpoint to my Wimba Classroom Meeting before it begins?
  • How do I present my uploaded material during a Wimba Classoom session?
  • How do students find a created Wimba Classroom?
  • How do I create a menu link to the Wimba Classrooms I’ve created?
  • How do I record & archive a Wimba session so students can access it later?
  • What are the technical requirements for Wimba classroom?

• Using iTunes U with Blackboard

  • How do I request an iTunes U page for Podcasting in Blackboard?
  • How do I access my exisiting iTunes U course page?
  • How do I give students access to the iTunes Course Page?
  • How do I get more information about podcasting and iTunes U?

• Using Multimedia

  • Where is Coursecast?

• Groups

  • How do I add a Group, or Groups to my course?

Exporting and Archiving a Course in BB 7.3 for Later Use in BB 9

• How-to-Archive-a-Course-in Blackboard.pdf
• How to Export a Course in Blackboard.pdf