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How to point your Bb9 class elsewhere

Escape from Blackboard 9

At many colleges that use Blackboard, every class is given a Bb course. If your course or materials are elsewhere, the presence of a Bb class is just confusing. Here’s how to point your Bb class elsewhere.

Step by step: Open your class in Blackboard. Select Customization. – Check Style […]

Interactive Checklists for Students in Blackboard

by Laura Paciorek (June 2011)

This video shows the viewer how to create “mark reviewed” buttons on their course website items, in Blackboard, so students have a way to check off each item as it is completed. This helps students insure that they do not miss any items as they go through their tasks in […]

Designing Your Menu in Blackboard

by Laura Paciorek (June 2011)

This video demonstrates for the viewer how to make the items in the left menu appear in larger text, in bold, and in italics. This technique may be used to bring students’ attention to different items in the left menu. This might be helpful for instructors who want to insure […]

Course Website Tour Workaround

by Laura Paciorek (June 2011)

This video gives the viewer an idea for how a course website tour can be created using the tools available in Blackboard instead of through video programs that must be downloaded/installed and may require payment. Course website tours can be helpful at the start of each semester when students are […]

Blackboard 9 Tutorials

Karen Korstad has created an entire class of modules for learning Blackboard 9. These count for flex credit as you work through Beginning, Intermediate and (soon) Advanced levels. Each unit successfully completed within the following Bb Modules is worth 1 hour of Flex credit. To successfully complete a unit you MUST take the exam and […]

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