Bb for Faculty

Welcome!

This page has links to many helpful videos and written instructions for faculty who use Blackboard. We currently are running Blackboard 9.1, Service Pack 9, so the tutorials are based upon that version. Central Oregon Community College hopes you find this resource a benefit.

Getting Started | Build Content | Assessments | Turn It In | Tools | Tests and Surveys | Grade Center   | Films & Videos in Bb

 Getting Started

• Request New Blackboard Course Creation.
• Browser Check for Blackboard
• How might faculty use Blackboard?
• How to login to Blackboard
• Tour of Blackboard
• Course-to-Course Navigation
• Task-Based Navigation
• The Course Menu
  • Add a Content Link  
  • Add a Module Page
  • Add a Blank Page here is another video on how to Add a Blank Page
  • Add a Tool Link (see link to videos about the Tools, below)
  • Add a Web Link
  • Add a Course Link
  • Add a Subheader
  • Add a Divider
   
• Face-to-Face Training Events: If you prefer in-person training, you may choose to attend the sessions that meet your needs.
• Atomic Learning: Additional training tutorials on everything from Blackboard to Graphing Calculators! There is no need to log in from on-campus, but from off campus access you do need a username and password, which is provided by emailing CyberAdvisor@cocc.edu.
• Hand-enroll a user

 Course Design

• Changing the Color Scheme
•  Quick Setup Guide and the Teaching Styles Tool
   

Build Content

• Google Docs integrated into Blackboard
•  Add a syllabus using the Syllabus Tool Wizard
• Add a syllabus that is in Word or PDF
• Add an Item: An "Item" is a discrete piece of information. You may add attachments to Items.
• Add an Attachment to content
• Add a File: A "File" is a direct link to an attachment. There is no explanitory text with a File link. If you want explanitory text, choose to add an Item that has an attachment on it.
• Add a Web Link: A "Web Link" is similar to an Item, but the title of the Item is a hyperlink that when clicked will take the user to a location outside of Blackboard.
• Add a Folder: Folders are container of additional information. If you create a Folder, make sure to have some additional content located inside the folder.
• Add a "Mashup"
  • Link to a YouTube Video Link
  • Link to a SlideShare Presentation
  • Link to FlickerPhoto 
   
• Add a Learning Module
• Add a Lesson Plan
• Add a Course Link
• Add a Blank Page (for displaying content) on the Course Menu
• How to add a Module Page
• Add a Web Link
• Add Textbook Information to your course
• Add a Banner to your Course Entry Point
• Select the Page Where Users Enter Your Course
• How to use SoftChalk
• Download SoftChalk Software
• Connect to the Blackboard Server
• Publish Lesson  
• SoftChalk Create and SoftChalk 7 User Guide
• Course Files
• Tour the Course Files area of Blackboard
• Upload a Single File or Multiple Files to your course
• Add File to Deploy HTML Package
• Adaptive Release Rules: How to create multiple rules

Assessments

• The Rubrics Tool
  • Grading with Rubrics
  • Create a Rubric
  • Associate a Rubric with a Content Item
  • Export a Rubric from one course and import it into another course
   
• Goals Alignment
  • Align Goals
  • Run Goal Alignment Report   
   
• Tests and Survey Tool
  • Create a Survey
  •  Create a Test
    • Uploading Test Questions from Microsoft Excel
    • Uploading Test Questions from Microsoft Word, using Respondus
      • Get a Test from Blackboard in a Printable Format using Respondus
       
    • Export a Test from one Bb course into another Bb course 
      • Exporting and Importing a Test or Survey from one course into another course
       
     
  • Creating Questions
    • The Question Finder tool
    • Fill in the Blank Questions
    • Short Answer Questions
    • Matching Questions
    • True/False Questions
     
  •  Setting Test Options 
    • Can you MOVE a Test or Survey?
     
  • Automatic Regrading
    • Getting Started with Automatic Regrading (.pdf)
    • How to DELETE a question from an exam that students already took, and automatically regrade the submitted tests
     
  • Awarding Negative Points for Incorrect Answers to Test Questions
  • Tagging Questions for Reuse
  • Building a Pool
  • Creating a Random Block and Adding it to a Test
  • How the Timer works
  • How to Grade a Test
  • How to Clear an Attempt
  • How to Ignore an Attempt
  • Submit a Test on Behalf of a Student
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• How to add a Survey
  • How to see Survey Results
   
• How to add an Assignment (using the Assignment Tool in Blackboard)
• Edit an assignment using the Assignment Tool
• Clear an attempt a student has submitted
• Retrieve Submissions Students have Submitted using the Assignment Tool
• Needs Grading and the Assignment Tool
• How to Grade an Assignment
• How to Clear an Attempt and Ignore an Attempt

• Self and Peer Assessment (links to Dartmouth's excellent Bb help site)

Turn It In

• How to add a TurnItIn Assignment
  • How to submit a paper on behalf of your student
  •  How to Check Originality 
    • About OriginaltyCheck
    • Viewing Originality Reports
    • Using Marks and Comments
    • Adding QuickMark Comments
    • Using Rubrics for Grading 
      • Common Core Rubric Pack - This is NOT from COCC. This is from Turn It In
       
    • Learning Additional Functions
    • Class Activities with OriginalityCheck
     
  • How to use GradeMark: Electronic marking of papers 
    • GradeMark Overview
    • GradeMark Interactive Tutorial
    • Class Activities with GradeMark
     
  • How to create a PeerMark Assignment 
    • PeerMark Overview
    • Creating a PeerMark Assignment
    • Writing a Review of a Student Paper
    • Reading Peer Reviews
    • Class Activities with PeerMark
     
  • Managing Instructor Libraries
  • Spot Check Essays with QuickSubmit
  • Setting Preferences for Users and Classes
  • Using Statistics to Track Performance
  • TurnItIn Instructor Guide
  • SEER Rubric Overview SEER=Source Educational Evaluation Rubric by TIN)
  • Import the SEER Rubric into Blackboard
  • Possible Uses of SEER
   

Tools

• Announcements
• Blackboard Collaborate
• Blogs 
• Calendar
• Contacts
• Discussion Board
• Email
• Glossary
• Groups
• Journals
• Kaltura Media
• Roster
• SoftChalk Lesson Content
• StudyMate Class Server
• Tasks
• Wikis 
  • Create a Sign-Up Wiki (and even do it for your linked CRNs)
   
• Adding an AVATAR

 Tests & Surveys

• The Testing Tool Overview
• How to Create a Test
• Adding Questions
• Editing Questions
• Question Types
• Deploying Tests
• Transfer tests between courses
• Importing Tests, Surveys, and Pools
  • Respondus Test Generation tool
   
• Automated Grading 
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 Grade Center

By default, a course shell in Blackboard is automatically populated with the student data as well as a Weighted Total and Total column. Additional columns are added to the Grade Center when tools such as the Assignment Tool and Tests/Surveys are used. For those items for which columns are not automatically added to the Grade Center, it is possible for an Instructor to add columns manually. The following tutorials outline those column types

• Tour the Grade Center
• Create Categories
• Total Column
• Weighted Column
• Weight Grades by Category
• Hide Columns from Users
• Hide Columns from Instructor
• Creating a Column (an activity) by hand
• Editing a Column
• Automatically-Created Columns
  • Assignments
  • Tests
  • Surveys
  • TurnItIn Assignments
   
• Drop the Lowest Score
  • Proof that the Lowest Score is Dropped
   
• Extra Credit
  • Extra Credit for Instructors who use TOTAL POINTS (not weighted totals)
  • Extra Credit for Instructors who Weight grades (the EASY method)
  • Extra Credit for Instructors who Weight grades AND want columns in their Grade Center that display extra credit activities
   
• Creating a Grade Report
• Grading Rubrics 

Log In to Blackboard:

•  Bb's login page is  http://bb.cocc.edu 

• Click on the UserLogin button, on the left-hand side of the screen.
• In the UserName text box, enter your nine-digit COCC ID number.
• In the Password text box type your password. (look up your initial password)