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Blackboard (Bb) Support guides for Staff

This page contains links to a suite of brief guides on Bb. = a "How to" technical Guide, = pedagogic advice,  = practical tips.

| Blackboard overview | Access | How Bb works | Design | Development | Management | Help |

These guides are now up to date and support Blackboard 7.3
 

	Topic Guides		Contents
	Blackboard overview
	What is Blackboard?	Link	What is Bb, How virtual learning environments are used
	Access
	Accessing Blackboard	Link	Where to find Bb, Logging in, Changing your password, Where to go for help,
	Becoming an instructor	255Kb	Roles, Gaining instructor access
	Gaining new boards	Click Link to email.	You can request a new board by emailing blackboard@canterbury.ac.uk with the name of the board you want created. Please check with your Programme Leader, Administrative staff or FLT to make sure your Blackboard fits in with your Faculty structure.
	How Bb works
	How Blackboard organises information	401Kb	The welcome page, Personalisation, Courses
	The "Home" Page	626Kb	Navigating courses
	Full getting started guide for instructors	1.2Mb	Everything you need to know before you start to build your own Blackboard course. Staff attending the Blackboard for Instructors' Training Course should download and work through this guide in advance of the course.
	Full getting started guide for Students	895Kb	Getting started guide for students which might be of use at induction
	Designing your course
	Design for e-learning	Link	Pedagogic theories for blended and fully e-courses
	Planning your Bb course	169Kb	Planning how you will use Bb, Customising and structuring a board using folders
	Designing the appearance of your course	180Kb	Designing buttons and banners
	Developing your course
	Basic features
	Announcements	248Kb	Adding announcements, timing announcements, linking from announcements to items in a course, amending and removing announcements
	Staff profiles	192Kb	Adding a staff profile, adding an image to a profile, amending and removing announcements
	Content	240Kb	Adding and labelling content, timing content, copying, pasting and removing content
	Uploading files	198Kb	Loading files into Blackboard from your local drive
	Loading zipped files	357Kb	Loading zipped files, such as videos, zipped web sites and learning objects.
	Accessibility
	General accessibility guide	Coming Soon	SENDA, General accessibility advice when using Bb
	Using PowerPoint with Bb	276Kb	How to minimise the size of your PowerPoint files
	Email
	Using email within Bb	179Kb	Sending email to students and staff via Bb, Sending emails to individuals and selected groups, How to access emails sent via Bb.
	Discussion boards
	Online discussion and e-moderating	161Kb	What are online discussions, Pedagogic theory of e-moderating, Hints and tips on managing online discussions
	Groups
	Setting up and using groups	396Kb	Setting up groups within a Bb course for group work, or as email groups.
	Assessment and e-submission
	Using the Bb assignment manager	294Kb	A guide to the assignment manager for uploading files electronically. You should also see the guide on the student pages. Please note: this tool should be used in preference to the Digital Drop Box.
	The Bb test manager	334Kb	A guide on building a test in Blackboard
	Deploying a Bb test	159Kb	A guide on deploying tests in blackboard
	The Bb survey manager	106Lb	A guide on creating surveys in Blackboard
	The Bb pool manager	209Kb	A guide on using the pool manager to most efficiently manage questions for tests in Blackboard.
	Wikis
	Setting up and using wikis	423Kb	A user guide to the wiki tool in Blackboard, including personal wikis
	Setting up course wikis	211Kb	A user guide to setting up course-based wikis within Blackboard
	Using a wiki in a course area	284Kb	Editing a wiki which exists in a course area.
	Restricting access to course wikis	219Kb	A user guide to restricting access to a course-based wiki.
	Blogs
	Setting up and using  blogs	480Kb	A user guide to the blog tool in Blackboard
	Setting up course blogs	212Kb	A user guide to setting up course-based blogs within Blackboard
	Restricting access to course blogs	218Kb	A user guide to restricting access to a course-based blog.
	Content manager
	Using the Bb content manager	262Kb	Setting up and using the content manager which enables you to build e-portfolios from your files.
	e-Portfolio
	E-portfolios - an overview	182Kb	What are e-portfolios? How might they be used?
	Setting up and using the Bb e-portfolio	616Kb	A guide to setting up and using the Blackboard e-portfolio tool.
	e-Portfolio Templates within Blackboard	141Kb	This is a swatch card of the different e-portfolio item templates you can choose from.
	Managing your Blackboards
	User management	420Kb	Enrolling students and removing them from Blackboard.  Enrolling large numbers of students and problems you may encounter.
	Power user enrolment	340Kb	A quicker way of enrolling users into your Blackboard.
	Copyright guidance	Link	Please click the link to go to library services.
	Technical help
	Help for Vista users	302Kb	Vista users may have problems with discussion boards and some other functions in Blackboard. This guide explains the alteration of settings to help with this.
	Help for Office 2007 users	263Kb	Guide to uploading files for users of Office 2007.
	Getting further help
	Blackboard support	Link	Contact details and numbers for more help and guidance

 

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