Advanced Blackboard GSS 2009 11 20

ADVANCED BLACKBOARD

20 November 2009Graduate School of Social Service

Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic ComputingFaculty Technology Centers

Prerequisites

Blackboard Knowledge: Control Panel Content Types Discussion Boards Grade Center

General Knowledge Browser Navigation Email usage MyFordham (my.fordham.edu) portal

login

Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

News & Reminders

Single Sign-on through MyFordham portal

New URL is My.Fordham.Edu Fordham.blackboard.com will be

discontinued AccessIT ID usernames and passwords

Banner ID and naming conventions

17-character: engl1101c01201010 engl 1101 c01 2010 10 Dept. Course Sec. Year Sem.


News & Reminders

Drop Box has been deprecated Do not use!

Use the Assignment Content Type instead Does not have file name restrictions Creates Grade Center column

automatically


News & Reminders

IDs for spring courses end in ‘201020’

201020 courses began loading on 11/16

You must be correctly assigned to a course in Banner before it will appear your Blackboard

The Blackboard staff cannot perform an action that directly contradicts the systems of record.


News & Reminders

If your department changes course assignments after 11/16, you may not have access to the correct courses

Call 718-817-2289 once you know Banner is correct

Instructors are still responsible to reconcile Blackboard enrollments with official rosters at the end of the Drop/Add period.


News & Reminders

Avoid unnecessary A/V Remember your students may not have

broadband

Use HTML (built-in editor) when possible Faster

More accessible: runs anywhere Blackboard runs

Not all students have Word Expensive Version issues


News & Reminders

Do Not Copy & Paste text from Word

Copy to Notepad, then to Blackboard

Word copies things other than just text

Incomplete Word markup can affect the display of other things on the page


News & Reminders

Do Not Copy & Paste text directly from other websites into Blackboard Hidden Text and JavaScript can damage courses

Link whenever possible Use the site’s “embed” feature if available As a last resort, copy to Notepad first, then to

Blackboard.

Notorious offenders: New York Times Wall Street Journal LA Times The Economist


Forum Subscriptions


Allowing Subscriptions:

Forum Subscriptions


Subscribing to forums/threads:

Grading Discussion Boards


Creating a graded Forum:



Accessing the Grading Dialog:



Grading the Forum:



The Forum in the Grade Center:

Saving & Printing Threads


Saving & Printing Threads

Most computers can save through “print”

May be called different things:

“Print to File” “Print to PDF” “Save as PDF”


Adaptive Release

Make content available for specific time periods Timed tests Pre-loading content

Make content available to specific people Groups Special needs

Make content available based on other actions Actions must be completed in sequence


Copying and Archiving

Course Copy Take course content and reuse it Always “Copy to Existing Course”

We pre-build the course shells for you Choose only the content you want

Archive Course Complete copy you save to disk Includes all grades, discussion board posts,

etc. If you ever need it, bring the file to the

Blackboard admins. We can restore it for you.


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