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Preparing for the new academic year – checklist & resources

Key tasks to prepare your course for a new cohort of students:

Getting ready for the new Year

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Blackboard Learn

  • Blackboard Assignment

  • Communication

  • Course Content

  • Discussion Board Forum

  • Grade Centre

  • Tests

  • Users & Groups

  • Blackboard Learn: Adaptive Release
  • What to do with your Courses from Previous Years
  • Local Portal Administrators – Contacts for Editing Blackboard Portal Modules
  • New Staff Checklist
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Assessment & Feedback

  • Assignment Setup

  • Group Assessment

  • Managing Assessment

  • Marking & Feedback

  • Rubrics / Assessment Criteria

  • Submission Receipts: What do students see and how do staff access them?
  • Turnitin iPad App
  • Setting up assignments where there is no file submission on Blackboard
  • Marking assignments where there is no file submission on Blackboard
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Turnitin

  • Similarity Report

  • Turnitin: Similarity Report: Request to see a matched paper
  • Turnitin: Similarity Report: How to handle a paper access request
  • Turnitin: Similarity Report: Accept or decline a paper access request
  • Submission Receipts: What do students see and how do staff access them?
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Blackboard ALLY

  • Blackboard ALLY: Export a Word document as a tagged PDF (PDF Download)
  • Blackboard ALLY: Add headers to your data tables on Word (PDF Download)
  • Blackboard ALLY: Add headings to a Word document (PDF Download)
  • Blackboard ALLY: Add alternative descriptions to PowerPoint images (PDF Download)
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Blackboard Collaborate

  • Blackboard Collaborate: Setting up Collaborate Ultra on your Blackboard course
  • Blackboard Collaborate: Set up scheduled sessions
  • Blackboard Collaborate: Invite Guests to a session
  • Blackboard Collaborate: Accessing Recordings
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Mobile

  • Mobile: The Blackboard Instructor app
  • Mobile: Using mobile tests and surveys with the Blackboard app
  • Blackboard: How to create mobile compatible tests for Blackboard Mobile Learn

TEL Staff Development: Book Here

Accessible Blackboard Content

Accessible Blackboard Content (Retreat)

BB2: Design & Create your Bb Course

BB3: Activities - Blogs, Wikis, Journals

BB4: Groups - Creating & Managing Groups

BB Similarity: Interpreting the Turnitin Report

Online Marking - Blackboard Assignment

Online Marking - Turnitin Assignment

Administrators - Turnitin & Groups

Administrators - Blackboard & Grade Centre

Request a TEL 1-to-1 Consultation

Turnitin Status

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TEL Team Updates

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