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Blogs
Blogs are an open communications tool for students to share their thoughts.
Course and System Roles
Course Roles control access to the content and tools within a Course. Each user is assigned a role for each Course in which they participate.
Course Calender
The Course Calendar feature can be used to indicate important course related events. All students registered in the course can view the dates and events that appear on the Course Calendar.
Course Statistics
Instructors can use the Tracking Reports area to generate reports on the Course usage and activity. Instructors can view specific Student’s usage to determine if Students are actively using the Course. The report appears in…
Course Tasks
The Tasks feature organizes project or activities by defining task priority and tracking task status. As an instructor, you can post tasks to users participating in your course.
Customizing Tab Modules
You can personalize the placement, color, and selection of modules that appear on the My Institution or Notifications Dashboard tabs.
Customizing the Look of a Course
The Style settings control how the Course appears to users. Settings include identifying the first page Users see when they open the Course, the appearance of the menu, and how content items appear in folders.…
Dashboard Notifications Access
Use the Dashboard Notifications to view tasks to be completed in one central place, assignment to grade, and new discussion board posts to review, monitor at-risk students, and receive course notifications.
Dashboard Notifications Management
From My Places, you can manage notification settings for all of the courses and organizations you are enrolled in. The Notification System is a framework for the delivery of notifications to Blackboard Learn users.
Early Warning System
The Early Warning System is a rule-driven communication tool that sends email messages to Students and their Observers when the criteria for the rule is triggered. Rules can be based upon a test score, a…
Groups
The Manage Groups feature of Blackboard allows instructors to create groups within a course. This allows the group members to have access to their own private Discussion Board, File Exchange, and Group Email.
Journals
A Journal is self-reflective tool for students. Only the student and the Instructor are able to Comment on Journal Entries. However, Journals can be made public by the Instructor to allow other enrolled users read…
Language Pack
Language Pack preferences are defined at the system level, the Course or Organization level, and finally at the user level.
Learning Modules
A Learning Module is a set of Content Items with an accompanying structured path for progressing through the items. The path is set so that students must view content in sequentially or set to permit…
Manage My Courses Module
This Quickstart provides information on how to manage “My Courses” module on your homepage.
Managing the Course Menu
The Manage Course Menu feature allows instructors to add and modify the content areas used for a course. An instructor can add an area and modify the name to better suit a course. Instructors have…
Managing Users
The Users feature enables instructors to change a user’s role within a course and update user profiles.
Mashups
Mashups allow Instructors to add content to a Course that is from an external Web site. This content is used in a variety of ways within a Course: a standalone piece of Course Content, part…
Mashups - SlideShare
Mashups allow Instructors to add content to a Course that is from an external Web site. SlideShare is an online presentations sharing site. In addition to presentations, users may share documents, PDFs, video, and webnairs.
Modifying Course Name and/or Description
The Customization feature allows instructors to change course properties, including the name of a course and its description.
