Answers to Top 5 Blackboard Questions

1. How do I request my Blackboard course(s) for the new semester?
2. How do I combine multiple course sections into a single course in Blackboard?
3. How do I copy course content and settings from a previous course to my new course?
4. How do I make my scheduled section available to my students?
5. How do I add my TA to my Blackboard course?

A

• AccountId, Password
• AccountId, Requesting
• Academic Administrators's Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Blackboard
• Adaptive Release
• Add, Users
• Alignments, Goals &
• Apps, Blackboard Mobile Learn
• Articulate Presentations
• Assessment Feedback
• Assignments
• Assignments, Extra Credit
• Assignments, Assigning Grade Values
• Assignment Statistics
• Attendance
• Availability, Course

B

• Banner
• Blackboard, Access
• Blackboard Collaborate
• Blackboard, for Campus Organization/Program
• Blackboard, Hardware/Software Requirements
• Blackboard, Online Teaching
• Blackboard Mobile Learn Apps
• Blackboard, Version
• Blackboard, Workshops
• Browsers
• Buttons, Adding

C

• Chat, Recording
• Chat Session, Archiving
• Cheating, Preventing
• Clickers (see Student Response System)
• Collaborate, Blackboard
• Communication Area
• Communities, Blackboard
• Content Package (SCORM)
• Copy and Paste
• Course Access
• Course, Archiving
• Course Areas
• Course Cartridges
• Course Content
• Course Copy
• Course Coverage Report
• Course, Deleting/Removing
• Course, Exporting
• Course ID
• Course Letter/Text Grade
• Course Performance Report
• Course Quota
• Course, Reactivating
• Course, Recycling
• Course, Renaming
• Course, Requesting
• Course Shell
• Cross-Listed Courses

D

• Deleting/Removing a Course
• Digital Drop Box
• Discussion Thread
• Dropping Lowest Scores from Grade Center
• Due Dates, Assignment (see Notification System)

E

• Email, Changing
• Email, Sending
• Extra Credit Assignment

F

• Feedback, Assessment
• File Formats

G

• Goals & Alignments
• Grade Center, Can Not Delete Column
• Grade Center, Reported Issues
• Grade Center, Setting Up
• Grade Center, Uploading/Downloading Grades
• Grade Submission Tool
• Grade Total
• Grades, Assigning a Letter Grade
• Grades, Curving
• Grades, Drop Lowest
• Grades, Excluding Individual Record
• Grades, Printing
• Grades, Set External
• Grades, Student Access
• Grades, Submitting Final Grades to MyNIU
• Grades, Weighted
• Groups
• Groups, File Exchange
• Groups, Moving Users
• Guest Users

H

• Hide Courses
• Home Page, Creating
• Home Page, To Do Module

I

• Images, Using Images in Tests

L

• Links, Adding

M

• Mac User Errors
• Master Courses
• Mobile Learn Apps
• Modules
• Multiple Attempt Quiz Grade
• Multiple Course Sections(see Master Courses)
• My Courses Module
• MyNIU, Submitting Final Grades from Blackboard

N

• Notification System

P

• Pasting Text from Another Program (see Copy and Paste)
• Packaged (.zip) Files
• Password, AccountID
• Personal Response Systems (PRS)
• Pseudo-Student Account (ZID)

Q

• Question Types
• Question Pools
• Quiz Grade, Multiple Attempt Quiz
• Quiz Timer
• Quizzes
• Quota, Course
• Quotation Marks

R

• Removing/Deleting a Course
• Renaming a Course
• Request a Course
• Request Pseudo-Student Account (ZID)
• RSS Feeds

S

• SafeAssign
• SCORM, Content Package
• Shell
• Special Needs (see Students, Accommodating)
• Spreadsheets
• Student Response System
• Students
• Students, Accommodating
• Students, Enrolling
• Students, Removing
• Students, Renaming
• Students, Their View of the Course

T

• TAs
• Tests
• Tests, Multiple Attempts
• Tests, Using Images in Tests
• To Do Module, Home Page
• Turning Technologies
• TurningPoint

U

• Users, Add/Modify
• Users, Guests

V

• Video
• Virtual Classroom

W

• Web Conferencing, Blackboard Collaborate
• Weighted Grade Options

Z

• ZID, Request Pseudo-Student Account