What's New and Different in Blackboard Learn 9.1

• Blackboard Learn 9.1 Quickstart Guide (pdf)
• Side-by-side comparison of Bb Vista and Learn 9.1
• Understanding the Change to Bb Learn from Bb Vista

Preparing Your Course Shell on Blackboard Learn 9.1

• Online Instructors:
  • A Printable Guide to Preparing Your Shell (pdf)
  • A Video Tutorial for Online Instructors (Camtasia)
  • Copying Content from One Shell to Another (pdf)
  • Rubric for Quality Online Courses
    
    
• Oncampus (Web-Enhanced) Instructors:
  • A Printable Guide to Preparing Your Shell (pdf)
  • A Video Tutorial for Oncampus Instructors (Camtasia)
  • Course Copy steps
  • Helpful Tips for Your Web-Enhanced Course (pdf)

Blackboard Learn 9.1 Tutorials

- Discussion Board:

• In Progress and Needs Grading - A help sheet for "In Progress" and "Needs Grading" statuses of tests, discussions, and assignments.
• Recommended Discussion Forum Settings - on Blackboard Learn
• Grading Discussion Forums in Blackboard Learn – grade student participation in Discussion forums.
• Subscribing to a Discussion Forum in Blackboard Learn - Have the system notify you by e-mail when messages are posted to a forum.
• Counting the Number of Discussion Posts - made by a student in a Blackboard Learn 9.1 course.
• Include Your Discussion Topics - in the Needs Grading Display.
• Discussion Forum Description Issue - workaround for lack of description information on Forum posting page.

- Tests:

• Giving One Student Late Access to a Test - using Adaptive Release
• How Students Access Test Results - Share this link with your students who are having trouble finding test feedback.
• Display only In Progress Tests in the Grade Center - This will save you time if you find yourself scrolling a lot through the Grade Center in search of those In Progress icons.
• In Progress and Needs Grading - A help sheet for In Progress and Needs Grading statuses of tests, discussions, and assignments.
• How to Clear or Submit a Test Attempt (pdf) - Perhaps a student's test needs to be submitted for them, or cleared in order to allow another attempt? Here's how to do that.
• How to Clear a Test Attempt - (video)
• Add Images to Test Questions - Images cannot be added to test questions by default, but it can be done! Watch this tutorial to learn how.
• Grading Multiple Test Attempts - Determining which attempt grade is displayed in the Grade Center.
• Accommodation - Allowing DSPS students more time on a test.
• Copying a Test - Make an exact copy of an existing test.
• Copy a Test - from one course to another.
• Viewing a Student's Test Attempt

- Assignments:

• In Progress and Needs Grading - A help sheet for "In Progress" and "Needs Grading" statuses of tests, discussions, and assignments.
• Allow One Student to Resubmit an Assignment - Allowing an additional attempt for a student who has already submitted an assignment that only allows one attempt.
• Allowing Multiple Attempts on an Assignment for all Students - You can let all students have multiple attempts for an assignment.

- Grade Center:

• Display only In Progress Tests in the Grade Center - This will save you time if you find yourself scrolling a lot through the Grade Center in search of those In Progress icons. SmartViews can be very helpful and totally customized.
• Controlling Grade Center Column Visibility to Faculty and Students – ensure that your students can see their grades.
• Final Grades: Total Points & Letter Grade Columns - how to create one column to sum up total points and a second column that assigns letter grades
• Drop the Lowest Grade(s) - in a series of grades.
• Include Your Discussion Topics - in the Needs Grading Display.
• Hide Dropped Students - in your Grade Center

- Course Management:

• How to Copy Content - into your live shells.
• Using Blackboard Drive – efficiently manage and edit files on BB Learn through WebDav.
• Get an Activity Report - on a single student in your class
• Add a colleague - to your course shell as an evaluator.

- Troubleshooting:

• Multiple Firefox Logins to Blackboard Learn - create multiple user profiles in Firefox and use them to allow multiple simultaneous logins to Learn on the same computer using only Firefox.
• Using your Demonstration Student – how to enroll your demo student in your course shell to troubleshoot student access issues.
• Solving File Access Problems in Blackboard Learn – what to do if you have problems accessing files in your Blackboard Learn shell.
• Can Your Student See That? - Using the User Progress tool to ascertain visibility of course item to students.
• Clearing your web browser's cache - is the first thing to try if your course site is not displaying as expected.
• Update and Clean Up Your Java - Runtime Environment on Windows
• Reset Your Lost Password - on Blackboard Learn

- Miscellaneous Tutorials:

• How to create/edit a Hyperlink - using the Visual Editor tool in Blackboard
• Uploading an Avatar Image to Blackboard Learn - personalize your presence on Blackboard Learn.
• Using the Elluminate Building Block in Blackboard Learn – virtual classroom integration in Blackboard Learn.
• Blackboard Mobile Learn App - Access your Blackboard Learn course while on the go!
• Update your Email Address - in Blackboard
• Manage Your My Courses List - in Blackboard

Additional Training Resources

• Blackboard's Ondemand Learning Center
• Atomic Learning Tutorials
  (email support@sdccdonline.net for username/password)
  • Turn on Captioning - in Atomic Learning Tutorials
• Atomic Learning Tutorial Topics:
• Instructor Basic (pdf)
• Instructor Advanced (pdf)
• Blackboard Learn Grade Center (pdf)
  
  

Blackboard Learn 9.1 Implementation Plan (pdf)

Course Management System Review and Evaluation Process (pdf)