Documentation
Instructor & User Manuals
- Blackboard 9.0 Learning System Instructor Manual (PDF, 451 pages)
- Blackboard 9.0 Learning System User Manual (PDF, 127 pages)
- Blackboard 9.0 Introduction Outline for Instructors (PDF, 11 pages)
Blackboard 9 Quick Start Guides
- Getting Started: Creating Assignments (PDF, 3 pages)
- Getting Started: Building a Test (PDF, 3 pages)
- Getting Started: Creating Course Content (PDF, 4 pages)
- Getting Started: Blackboard 9 Course Environment (PDF, 3 pages)
- Getting Started: Grade Center (PDF, 4 pages)
- Getting Started: Creating Groups (PDF, 4 pages)
Videos
Blackboard 9 Quick Videos
- Blackboard 9 Overview (10:20)
- All About Users: Add, Remove and Modify (5:22)
- Groups in Blackboard (3:21)
- Organize Your Blackboard Site (5:06)
Blackboard 9 Grade Center Quick Videos
- How do I add a column in the Grade Center? (3:30)
- How do I manually override a grade / type in a new score? (2:41)
- How do I email selected students from the Grade Center? (2:49)
- How do I quickly view column information: name, primary display, category, points possible and due date? (1:59 )
- How do I exempt a grade and revert it back to the original? (1:41)
- How do I remove a column from the Grade Center? (2:28)
- What are categories and how do I create them? (3:13)
- How do I show or hide selected students in my Grade Center view? (2:58)
- What do the icons mean and where can I access this information? (1:36)
- How do I change the primary display of a grade to a percentage, letter, number, or complete/incomplete? (2:22)
- How can I set up a smart view based on how students perform on assignments, projects or exams? (3:32)
- What is a grading period and how do I create one? (2:45)
- What is a grading schema and how do I create one? (4:11)
- How do I organize my Grade Center by categories, points possible, last name, etc.? (2:29)
- How do I view grade history? (2:19)
- How do I add comments in the Grade Center that the students are able to view? (2:54)
- How do I upload and download Grade Center information? (3:28)
- How do I manually re-order my columns in the Grade Center? (2:11)
- How do I add a weighted total calculated column? (4:26)
- How do I drop the lowest grade for an assignment? (2:48)
- Checking Your Blackboard Grade Books for Calculation Errors (31:41 with linked TOC)
- Checking Your Blackboard Grade Books for Calculation Errors (10 pages -- Transcript)