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  Getting Started with Blackboard
You can use Blackboard from any computer that is connected to the Internet.
  • Open an Internet browser, and type in the address for Blackboard: http://bb.siue.edu. Users must begin the login process from that entry point; they cannot bypass that page and go straight to the login page itself.
  • Username = your SIUE e-ID (the first part of your SIUE e-mail address), for example jsmith.
  • Password = the same one used to access your SIUE e-mail

After logging in, you are taken to your My Blackboard page. This is your portal into all your Blackboard courses. Links to each of your courses are located in the My Courses box on the right-hand side of the page. You can return to the My Blackboard page from anywhere within Blackboard by clicking on the My Blackboard tab in the upper left-hand corner.
  About Blackboard
  Tutorials

The Flash Movies are animated tutorials that will show you how to use Blackboard's features, and how to perform certain tasks in Blackboard.  The tutorial movies require Macromedia Flash Player. Download Flash Player here.

The printable version uses Adobe Acrobat files (PDF) and requires Adobe reader. Download Acrobat Reader here.

      indicates voice instruction added to Flash Movie
     
     
Introduction to Blackboard  
  • Accessing and Logging into Blackboard
  • My Blackboard Tab
  • Modify Course List in My Blackboard Tab
Flash Movie
  • My Courses Tab
  • Content and Files Tab
  • Making a course Available to students
  • Breadcrumb Navigation
       

Course Shell
  • Customizing Your Course
  • Adding an assignment and other content
  • Adding Shared Files From Another Instructor's Content Collection
  
  • Edit content
  • Copying and moving content
  • Removing content
  • Adding Learning Units
  • Adding Tools to Your Course
  • Adding Staff Information
  • Copy files from your course to Content Collection
       

Course Menu
  • Add a link to the Course Menu
  • Hide a link on the Course Menu
  • Rename a link on the Course Menu
 
Communications
  • Viewing Announcement
  • Adding an announcement
  • Messages
  • Adding a discussion board
  • Archiving discussion board threads
  • Discussion Grader
 Flash Movie
  • E-Mail
       

Content Collection

 
  • Adding files, folders, links
  • Adding multiple items using the Web Folder
  • Editing Files in Content Collection
  • Setting Permissions
  • Granting Passes
  • Advanced Searches
Flash Movie
  • Save Searches
Flash Movie
  • Bookmarks
 Flash Movie
  • Adding Content to another person's Content Collection
 Flash Movie
       

Gradebook
  • Introduction
  • Adding a column
  • Adding a grade to an item
  • Managing gradebook items
  • Weighting grades
  • Gradebook settings
  • Sorting and filtering gradebook items
  • Download a copy of gradebook
  • Upload your gradebook from Excel to Blackboard
  • Download student assignment files
  • Blackboard Survey Results
  • Blackboard Graded Items (Best Practices)
  • Discussion Grader
 Flash Movie
  • Dropping the Lowest Grade in the Gradebook
Flash Movie
       
       

Tests & Surveys

  
  • Introduction
  • Create A Tests
  • Create A Survey
  • Create A Pools
  • Create a Tests from Pools
  • Create a Surveys from Pools
  • Add a Test to a Course
  • Adding a Survey to a Course
  • Create a Random Block of Questions
       

Respondus

  
  • Download Respondus (on PC only)
Webpage    
  • Install Respondus (on PC only)
  • Open a File
  • Create a Quiz or Survey
  • Import Questions into Respondus
  • Standard Formatting for Questions
  • Edit Menu
  • Quiz Settings
  • Preview an Exam/Survey
  • Publish to Blackboard
  • Download Questions from Blackboard
  • Print Exams or Surveys
       

Adaptive Release

 
  • Create an adaptive release
  • Adaptive release for groups
  • Adaptive release for based on gradebook criteria
  • Advanced adaptive release
       

Group Collaboration

  
  • Making Group Collaboration Available
  • Create and add members to a group
  • Student Use of Group Collaboration
       

Maintenance Tools

  
  • Archiving your course
  • Exporting your course
  • Importing a package
  • Repair permission errors
  • Repair Permissions from a File in Another Content Collection
       
       
       

 
  Tips & FAQs

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Last updated: Monday May 8, 2006 by lmillio@siue.edu