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Blackboard 9.1 (SP 11) Tutorials for Faculty
Featured Content
Learning goals:
1. Edit your profile
2. Share your profile
3. View other profiles
Learning goals:
1. Record video everywhere from the content editor
2. Setting up your account to record video
Global Navigation and My Blackboard
Learning goals:
1. Access global navigation
2. Navigate the user menu
3. Navigate My Blackboard
Working in the Course Environment
Learning goals:
1. View streamlined interface
2. See new tool available in theme
3. Recognize familiar functions
Learning goals:
1. Navigate between courses
2. Understand task-based navigation
Learning goals:
1. Edit mode
2. Course menu
3. Home page
Building Course Content
Getting Started with Creating Accessible Course Content
Learning goals:
1. Learning and cognition
2. Culture and customs
3. Sensory and Physical
4. Neurological and Psychological
5. Language and Technology
Getting Started with Course Content
Learning goals:
1. Build content
2. Create assessment
3. Add interactive tools
Learning goals:
1. Paste in text and tables
2. Insert an image
3. Insert a link
4. Format text
Comparing the New Content Editor with the Legacy Text Editor
Learning goals:
1. Legacy text editor
2. New content editor
Attaching Course Files to a Content Item
Learning goals:
1. Create a new content item
2. Attach files from Course Files using two different methods
3. Compare how the attachments look to students
Integrate Web 2.0 Tools into Blackbord
Learning goals:
1. Web 2.0 tools
2. Benefits
3. How to embed
Reporting and Course Utilities
Running and Saving a Course Report
Learning goals:
1. Describe course report types
2. Run report
3. View report
4. Save report
Blogs and Journals
Getting Started with Journal Prompts to Improve Student Writing
Learning goals:
1. Writing prompts for students
2. Reading, research, challenges, interview and more
Grade Center
Getting Started with the Grade Center
Learning goals:
1. Accessing the grade center
2. Action bar
3. Views
Getting Started with Needs Grading
Learning goals:
1. Grade tests and assignments
2. Grade blogs, journals, wikis and discussions
Test, Surveys and Pools
Learning goals:
1. List triggers for automatic regrading
2. Edit test question
Getting Started with Automatic Regrading
Learning goals:
1. Access tests
2. Delete questions
3. Edit Questions
4. Deploy a test
Awarding Negative Points for Incorrect Answers to Test Questions
Learning goals:
1. Enable negative points in test canvas
2. Use negative points in test question
Creating a Fill in the Blank Question
Learning goals:
1. Create a fill in the blank question
2. List acceptable answers and select evaluation method
3. Provide feedback
Creating a Fill in Multiple Blanks Question
Learning goals:
1. Create a fill in multiple blanks question
2. List acceptable answers and select evaluation method
3. Provide feedback
Assignments
Getting Started with the AssignmentsLearning goals:
3. Reviewing and grading assignments and more - Watch it
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