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Blackboard FAQs for Administrators
This information has been gathered from the Blackboard Academic Suit User Manual, Online Manual, and NEIT staff experience.
Section 1 Administrator Account |
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- Go to http://blackboard.neit.edu and login into the system with your username and password.
- Click on the name of your course in the “My courses” box on the right hand side of the screen
- Use the navigation buttons on the left hand side of the screen to access the weekly content or Bb tools.
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- Close the browser window with the “Red X” or
- Click the “log out” icon at the top of the page.
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| Section 2 User Management |
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| Section 3 Course Management |
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Default setting for the system are managed by NEIT
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- Open your course
- Enter the control panel
- Select “Course Design” from the Course Options box on the bottom left
- Select the “Course Design” option
- Modify the “Course Design Page” – You have a choice between button or text navigation. If you choose buttons you will have a choice of color and button style.
- Click Submit
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- Open your course
- Enter the control panel
- Select “Course Design” from the Course Options box on the bottom left
- Select the “Course Banner” option
- Click and “Browse” button and select a “.gif”, “.jpg” or “.png” image file to upload into the course. You will have to size it to fit outside of Bb.
- Click Submit
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- Open your course
- Enter the control panel
- Select “Staff Information” from the “Course Tools” box
- Select “Add Profile”
- Fill in the web form with the appropriate information.
- Click Submit
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- Open your course
- Enter the control panel
- Select “ Manage Course Menu” from the “Course Options” box
- Select “Add Content Area”
- Select or type in the name of the Content Area.
- Click Submit
- This will create a new content area in the “Content Areas” box in the control panel and create a new button in the navigation panel on the front page of the course.
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- Integrated into Banner
- Contact Bob Larrabee at 800-739-7744 – x 3355 blarrabee@neit.edu
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- Everything in Bb is managed through a web form in the area that you want to work in. Generally speaking you add, manage and remove in the same way but just with a different button. See below for more detailed information.
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Whenever you add information into Bb you should spend some time thinking about how a student user will access the information. If you are going to deliver only a small amount of content than it really won’t matter if you just place the content into the course directly as an individual item. If however you will be providing a lot of information you should consider creating a file structure that will organize the content for the student user. Folders are created in the same way as an item but once created you are able to fill them within content. |
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- Course tools are managed inside the “Manage Tools” menu within the Course Options box in the control panel.
- Click Manage Tools in the Course Options area of the Control Panel.
- Click Enable Blackboard Tools.
Fields
The table below details the fields available on this page.
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Available |
Check this box next to those tools that will be used in the Course. |
Allow Guest |
Check this box next to those tools that Guests are allowed to view. If
a tool is marked with N/A then Guests cannot view it. |
Allow Observer |
Check this box next to those tools that Observers are allowed to view |
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- Archive, restore, export, import, copy and recycle controls are all accessed via the Course Options box in the control panel.
- To Restore a course you must import a previous saved and Exported file into a blank version of the course
- Export/Archive: Manager Create Course packages through Export and Archive features.
- To export a course to your hard drive click on Export Course and then click on Export, select the content and tools you wish to export and click submit. The system will place a “.zip” file on your desktop for you to store where you wish. Do not “unzip” this file.
- Import Package: Add a package containing an exported Course the current Course.
- To Import a course, click on Import Course and browse to the appropriate “.zip” file
- Select the content and tools that you wish to import and click submit.
- The Export/import process can also be used to share courses with colleagues.
- To Archive the course, click on Archive Course and click on Archive. The Archive process will make a complete copy of the course. You can choose to save the Grade Center History as your only option. The system will place a “.zip” file on your desktop for you to store where you wish. Do not “unzip” this file.
- Copy Course: Copy Courses taught by the same Instructor into either another course, a new course or an exact duplicate of the course.
- To Copy a course, click on Copy Course in the Course Options box and select either the “new course”, existing course” or “exact cop” option and click “OK”.
- For a new course, enter the name of the new course in the Destination Course ID and select which content and tools you wish to copy and click the submit button. The copy process will be queued by the system and copies within the next few minutes.
- You must choose to copy the enrollments in order to put yourself into the course. Contact Tom Thibodeau or Bob Larrabee if you cannot find the course after you have copied it
- For an existing course follow the same instructions above. You will only be allowed to copy into a course that is already under your name.
- To make an exact copy of the course you just have to enter the new course ID and click Submit.
- Recycle Course: Recycle a Course by selecting areas to keep and areas to remove.
- To Recycle a course, click on Recycle Course in the Course Options box and choose the folders of content that you wish to reuse then type the word “Remove” in the box above the submit button. Note: The action is permanent and cannot be undone.
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Section 4 Tools and Utilities |
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- Announcements are created in the Announcement menu within the Course Tools box in the control panel
- Click “Add Announcement” and fill in the web form for the announcement.
- Each announcement can be control by selecting a start/stop date or by making it a permanent announcement.
- You can provide a link to an area in your course by using the “Course Link”
- Calendar events are created in the Course Calendar menu within the Course Tools box in the control panel.
- Click “Add Calendar Event” and fill in the web form for the item.
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- Glossary “Terms” are added from the “Glossary Manager” within the “Course Tools” box in the control panel.
- Click on the “Add Term” icon and fill in the web form.
- You may also upload/download a glossary by creating a comma delimited file of your glossary terms and their definitions.
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