The wide variety of Blackboard tools makes it very easy for you to customize your Blackboard course to fit your specific needs. We have included below links to how-to guides and screen capture tutorials for some of the more commonly used tools to help you "jumpstart" the development of your Blackboard course.
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To introduce you to some of the fundamental functions of Blackboard, we have included several presentations below with specific information on using Blackboard at Texas Tech University. Please take a moment to watch these short presentations. |
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Introduction to Blackboard
Action Links - A very important course management tool!
Managing the Course
Using the File Manager
How to Upload and Link to a Document (coming soon)
Adding Content to the Home Page
Adding a Header or Footer to the Home Page |
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Use the Grade Book Tool to manage students, teaching assistants, additional designers, and auditors. Using the Gradebook (below) also walks through how to manage column settings in your Grade Book. |
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Using the Gradebook
Adding Members (Students, Teaching Assistants, Section Designers, and Auditors)
Adding Members (Students, Teaching Assistants, Section Designers, and Auditors) |
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Link to your syllabus using the Syllabus Tool. Once it is linked, you can use this tool to add additional locations to your syllabus inside your course - without worrying about replacing those links with a new syllabus document each semester. Just replace it in one place. |
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Linking to a syllabus
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Create online assignments where your students can upload one or multiple documents associated with a specific assignment. Easy management of assignment submission and grading - all from one screen! |
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Assignment Dropbox
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Participate in in-depth online conversations with your students. This asynchronous tool makes online discussions convenient and easy. Documents can be attached and websites can be linked within discussions. Use the Group Manager to facilitate group discussions. |
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Discussion Tool
Using the Threaded Discussion Tool
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Chat, a real-time communication tool, will give you the opportunity to participate in live conversation with your students - via either text or microphone. Use it for Office hours, exam review, group discussions, etc. |
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Using the Chat/Whiteboard Tool for real-time communication
Demonstration of the Chat/Whiteboard Tool
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Use this simple tool to make online announcements. The annoucement can be a pop-up that will open when students log in to your Blackboard course. You can also specify delivery to specific recipients in the course. |
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Creating an Annoucement
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This email tool can help centralize all private communication with your students, no more junk or spam email, no size limitations, and you never have to maintain a list of your student's email addresses! |
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Mail Tool
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This tool links to external websites that you wish to share with your students. They can access the websites from within the framework of Blackboard. |
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Linking to external websites using the Web Links Tool
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The Learning Module Tool can help you organize your course content into a Table of Contents. This guide to the content makes it very easy for students to move sequentially through course material, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and any other tools you utilize in your course. |
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Using Learning Modules to organize course content
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