Blackboard Faculty Tips Archive
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: Use the Assignment Manager instead of the DropBox to link submitted assignments directly into your Blackboard Gradebook. To learn how to use the Assignment Manager, click here. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: If your students lose their internet connections while taking a Blackboard exam, you can reduce their chances of losing their exam answers by following the basic steps that are available in the Exams and Grading FAQ. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: You can disable buttons in Blackboard that you do not need, such as External Links or Assignments - or rename your buttons to something else entirely! |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: Once your course is complete, and your gradebook data is backed up and grades are turned in, recycle your course to get it ready for the next time you use it! |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: Did you know that you can review and track student progress in your Blackboard course sites? The Performance Dashboard allows you to see an overview of which assignments and handouts your students have reviewed, and links directly into your Blackboard Gradebook for assigning assessment scores. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: If you have been using a course site for a number of semesters or plan to recycle a course at the end of this semester, using the Link Checker can ensure that all web links contained within your site are still valid. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: Modify your course menu to meet your course needs! You can add, delete, and rearrange buttons/sections quickly and easily. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: You
have the ability to change
the default Blackboard language for your personal Blackboard view.
Available languages include: Arabic, brancFrench, German, Italian, Japanese,
Spanish, and others. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: Student Discussion Board postings not showing up? Be sure that students are clicking the Submit button rather than the Save button in your discussion forums. By clicking the Save button, they are simply saving a draft of their messages that only they can view. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: When saving Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents, make sure that you and your students are not including special symbols such as #, %, $, etc. in your filenames. You will be unable to open these documents from within Blackboard. Use only letters and numbers when titling documents. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: If you or your students are creating Microsoft Office documents, presentations, and spreadsheets in Microsoft Office 2007, you may be unable to open these Office 2007 files if you are using a previous version of Office (such as 2003). To open Office 2007 files in an earlier version of Office, install the free Office 2007 compatibility pack. |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: You may now submit requests for your course sites via online form. To request a course on either Blackboard or our new Moodle system, please follow this link and submit your information to BSC IT: Course Request Form |
| Blackboard Faculty Tip: Did you know you can change the view of your Discussion Board forums? By clicking the button at the top right of the page when inside a forum, you can switch between Tree View and List View |
