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Recycle a Course
You may recycle a Blackboard course by deleting old content and users.
Removing Users
The Remove Users feature enables instructors to remove users from a course.
SafeAssign Getting Started
SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard.View the SafeAssign Disclaimer
Sending Email to Users
The Send Email feature is used as a communication tool for sending email to individuals who participate in the course. Emails can be sent to individual users or groups of users within the course only.
Setting Options for a Survey
Once a survey has been created, you will have the option of setting a deployment date to make it available to students and the Content Area (Course Information, Course Documents, Assignments, etc.) in which the…
Setting Options for a Test/Quiz
Once a test has been created, you will have the option of setting a deployment date to make it available to students and the Content Area (Course Information, Course Documents, Assignments, etc.) in which the…
Staff Information
Contacts is a place where instructors can add profile information about themselves and others that is distributed to students. This is a good place to add officer hours, phone numbers, and other links to…
Tracking Attendance
The Grade Center enables instructors to record and manage student grades and allows students to view their grades 24/7. This QuickStart demonstrates how to create a taking attendance column in the Grade Center.
Upload/Download the Grade Center
The Grade Center enables instructors to record and manage student grades and allows students to view their grades 24/7. Instructors may upload Grade Center information into the Blackboard Learning System from the Upload Grade…
Using Assignments
This QuickStart will demonstrate how students may use assignments to send files to their professor.
Using Journals
A Journal is self-reflective tool for students. Only the student and the Instructor are able to Comment on Journal Entries.
Using SafeAssign
SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard.
Using the Blackboard Blog Feature
Blogs are an open communications tool for Students to share their thoughts.
Viewing/Replying to Threaded Discussions
The Discussion Boards feature is used as a communication tool for posting and responding to messages. The Discussion Board is used asynchronously; which means that users in a course do not have to be…
Virtual Text Box Editor
Presents controls for entering and formatting text, equations, and multimedia files. When it is enabled, it appears throughout the system as the default editor when adding text through a text box.
Weight Grades
A Weighted Column calculates and displays a grade based for a selected number of Columns based upon each column's respective worth of the total grade. Columns with text as the primary display cannot be…
Wikis
Wikis is a collaborative tool that allows Students to contribute and modify one or more pages of course related materials, providing a means of sharing and collaboration.
