The guides below are intended to help familiarize faculty with the following instructional technologies:
- Blackboard
- Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Blackboard Ally
- Echo360 - Creating Online Lectures
- TurningPoint - Audience Response System
- VoiceThread
- Zoom
Questions?
Blackboard
Getting Started
- Get Started with Blackboard for Instructors (PDF)
- Log in to Blackboard (PDF)
- Make a Course Available to students (PDF)
- View & Print a Student Roster (PDF)
- View & Print a Photo Roster (PDF)
- Upload a Syllabus (PDF)
Course Management
- Course Management Basics (PDF)
- Add Teaching Assistants (PDF)
- Add Course Facilitators (PDF)
- Merge Courses (PDF)
- Create a Development Course (PDF)
- Control Panel Basics (PDF)
- Preview a Course as a Student (PDF)
- Grant Guest Access to a Blackboard Course (PDF)
- Modify Email Notifications (PDF)
Course Materials
- Adding Course Content - The Basics (PDF)
- Upload a File (PDF)
- Link to External Websites (PDF)
- Upload a video using Echo360 (PDF)
- Request Library E-Reserves (PDF)
- Access Follett Discover (PDF)
- Copy Course Materials (PDF)
- Export & Import Course Materials (PDF)
Communicating with students
- How to create student groups (PDF)
- Communicate with Your Students (PDF)
- Post an Announcement (PDF)
- Setup a Discussion Forum (PDF)
- Send an Email through Blackboard (PDF)
Assignments & Tests
- Create and Grade Assignments (PDF)
- Set Test Availability Exceptions (PDF)
- Testing Good Practices - Instructors (PDF)
- Testing Good Practices - Students (PDF)
- Export & Import Tests (PDF)
- Respondus LockDown Browser Quick Start Guide for Instructors (PDF)
Grading
- Grade Center Good Practices (PDF)
- Grade Center Basics (PDF)
- Grade Center Advanced (PDF)
- Download the Grade Center (PDF)
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Get Started for Moderators (PDF)
- Get Started for Participants (PDF)
- Invite a Guest (PDF)
- Invite a Captioner (PDF)
- Attendance Reports (PDF)
- View and Download Recordings (PDF)
- Add a Profile Picture (PDF)
Blackboard Ally: Improve course accessibility
- Ally User Guide (PDF)
- Ally Basics (PDF)
- Ally Instructor Feedback Panel (PDF)
- Accessibility checklist (PDF)
- Ally's Alternative Formats (PDF)
- Ally Course Accessibility Report (PDF)
Echo360 - Creating Online Lectures
- Schedule Classroom Lecture Capture (PDF)
- Search for Lecture Capture Classrooms
- Get Started with Universal Capture: Personal (PDF)
- Create and Publish a Capture with Universal Capture: Personal (PDF)
- Editing Capture Videos
- Upload video to Blackboard using Echo360 (PDF)
- Share a Video with another Course (PDF)
TurningPoint - Audience Response System
- Registration and Setup for Instructors (PDF)
- Registration and Setup for Students (PDF)
- TurningPoint Good Practices (PDF)
- PowerPoint Polling (PDF)
- Import Student Roster from Blackboard (PDF)
- Export Polling Scores to Blackboard (PDF)
- Generate & Export Reports (PDF)
VoiceThread
- Get Started for Instructors (PDF)
- Copy and Share Your VoiceThreads (PDF)
- Create and Grade VoiceThread Assignments (PDF)
- Submit VoiceThread Assignments - For Students
- Create, Comment, and Share (PDF)
Zoom
- Using Zoom in Blackboard (Recorded Webinar)
- Blackboard: Get Started with Zoom Meetings (PDF)
- Zoom: Creating and Using Polls (PDF)
- Zoom: Pre-assign Breakout Rooms (PDF)
- Blackboard: Invite Guests to a Scheduled Zoom Session (PDF)
- Blackboard: Access Zoom Course Meeting Attendance and Poll Reports (PDF)
- Blackboard: Access Zoom Course Meeting Cloud Recordings (PDF)
- Blackboard: Import Zoom Meetings into a Blackboard Course (PDF)
- How to Record a Video Presentation using Zoom (PDF)