Category:Blackboard - Faculty

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Standard Practices

The Basics!

Standard practices are the conventions followed by faculty and the Blackboard support staff in order to guarantee that the semester, in this case, starts smoothly. Adhering standard practices guarantee a common experience: students are added to the courses on the same day. It also helps guarantee clear, commonly understood communication between instructors and Teaching with Technology staff.

  1. Students are added to course shells two days prior to the start of the semester.
  2. Instructors can communicate with students before they are added to shells
  3. Instructors are responsible for activating their course shells; students will not be able to participate in, or even see, course shells until they're activated. The exception are courses taught completely online.
  4. Course shells are identified by the year/semester - department and course number - course section Example: 201740-hist1010-80 Semester designations: Spring: 10 - Summer: 25 - Fall: 40 - Winter: 50


Transfer course content

Recently the online form has been disabled and all transfers should go through the Help Desk. The form was a legacy tool we'd used prior to the advent of the Help Desk but after four years on the Help Desk is an established feature of the technology environment at William Paterson and the form has been terminated.

To request a transfer please access the Help Desk and select the request types Blackboard and Course Transfer Request.

Enter the department, semester, the four-digit course number and two digit course section for both the origin and destination courses. Enter special directions in the Request Detail interface.

Do it Yourself Option Use the Control Panel Packages and Utilities tab to save a copy of an existing course and upload it into a new shell: Export, Archive, and Restore Courses


Merge cross-listed or multi-section course shells

Please use the Help Desk to request course merges. The merge form has been deprecated (see above).

Note: Until very recently solution available to us was the Merge (Combine). The availability of the Master option gives faculty more choices, so please consult this link to decide which solution is best for you. http://bit.ly/wpunj-bb-mergemaster


Activate course shell

There are two ways to one might activate a course shell. Remember that students will not see course content, or even a link to the course, until it has been activated.

    On the My Blackboard page select Faculty: Set Course Availability in the Tools menu (upper left):
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  • Click ON to activate a course and OFF to deactivate (at the end of the semester, for example):

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Communicate with students before they've been added to course shells

Follow these directions: Email students using WPConnect '


View Student Roster

After students have been added to course shells (see the first unit of the Standard Practices module) start by selecting Users in the Control Panel:

Control Panel => Users and Groups => Users

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Beginning of the semester

Do you have questions or need support? Please file a ticket with the Online Help Desk: http://www.wpunj.edu/helpdesk/


Tour Bb environment Global navigation Jump from course to course
Make course available (2nd way) Designate course entry point Easily adjust dates in a copied course
Customize your course page Use student preview Change page language
Set notification options Access Course Roster Hide old course shells

 

Course Building

Bb Learn instructor guide Getting started Instructor FAQs
Blackboard action link Edit Mode Adding a course banner
Course content Course files Best practices: course content
Edit course menu Create an avatar Add partner content
Upload course file Create a lesson plan Bulk delete course materials
Using the content editor    


 

Collaboration

Featuring announcements, blogs, discussions, email, journals, and Bb Collaborate web conferencing>
Please contact the help desk with all technology-related questions, problems or reports: http://www.wpunj.edu/helpdesk

General
Best practices    
Announcements Email Contacts
Blogs Journals Wikis
Email Course groups Virtual classroom   chat tools
Discussions
Discussions Create forums Create threads
Discussions: Managing Discussions: Moderating Discussions: Replying
Search   collect Grading Statistics
Collaborate Web Conferencing
Getting Started Navigation Schedule Sessions
Configure your session Join a session Conduct a session
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Publish Accessibility [[[Category:Collaborate_Web_Conferencing]]]

 

Content Collection

The content collection is one of the most underutilized tools in in the Blackboard suite. In this section learn to transfer content across courses within and between semesters. Why upload ten documents one at a time when you can upload them all in one package and then create links to that content in several courses this semester and throughout course shells semesters to come!


Content Collection Manual Create: Folder Add: Files Link: Files to Multiple Courses
Add: Zipped Files Download a package Email a file  

 

Grade Center

Grade Center 9.1 Create: Smart View View: Grade Details Customize: Grade Center View
Create: Grade Center Report Grading With Rubrics Create: Grading Rubric Associate: Rubric with an Item
Create: A Grading Rule View: Grade History Download: Grade Center Learn: Needs Grading Page
Create: A Weighted Column

 

Assessments

Assignments Create an Assignment Inline Assignment Grading Best Practices
Tests, Surveys, Pools Tests: Import/Deploy/Options Test Options (video) Test Availability Exceptions
Working with Pools Surveys: Create, Deploy, Review Export: Test or Survey Clear Test Attempt
Instructors guide / Turn-it-in Tii Instructors manual Use: The Negative Points Tool Clearing Assessments
Survey Results Working with Grade Data Multiple Assignment Submissions  

 

Course Reports & Retention Center

This tool provides an easy way for you to discover which students in your course are at risk.

Retention Center, PDF Quick Hit video: 1:43 min. On Demand video: 4:30 min. Retention Center in Action
Reports: Course Reports Observe Student Activity Discern Usage of Course Tools
  Detailed Course Reports Evaluation Module  

 

Portfolios

Introduction: Access Portfolio About Portfolios Create Portfolio Portfolio Artifacts
Share Portfolio

 

End of the Semester

Export course Archive a course (machine readable) Restore/Import Archive/Export/Restore [Doc]

 

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