Blackboard Faculty Manual
Blackboard Faculty Manual
This Bb manual is maintained online for Carroll faculty. It will be expanded and continually updated. Please contact Sue DiFonzo sdifonzo@carrollcc.edu with suggestions for improvement, with areas that you would like to see included, and with Bb tips and instructions that you are willing to share with your Carroll peers.
Essential Information
Basic steps to get your course site ready
The control panel - The behind-the-scenes place where you, as the instructor, make important Bb features available and where you add content for student view.
- Step 1: Managing the course menu
- Step 2: Posting an announcement
- Step 3: Posting information about you
- Step 4: Adding the syllabus and other course information
- Step 5: Opening your course site early for student view
- Step 6: Blackboard (Bb) student roster and student email addresses
- Step 7: Copying content from a previous semester site (Under construction: Please check back later)
Communications and Interactions
- Sending email to course users
- Using the discussion board
- Setting up Groups
- Setting up a group discussion board
- Setting up the student homepage function (Under construction: Please check back later)
Interactive Assignments
Assessments
Testing
Other Blackboard Features and Tips
- Accessing your course from a student's perspective (Under construction: Please check back later)
- Loading a course cartridge
- Exporting a Course
- Archiving a Course
- Copying a Course or Part of a Course
- Importing a course
- Course Statistics
- Shrinking PowerPoint files for easy viewing within Bb: Impatica (Under construction: Please check back later)
