Here you’ll find a list of helpful Blackboard guides organised by topic to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. If you don’t find what you’re looking for you can still use the search function to discover more information. Click on any of the topic headings to expand the sub-categories and links to guides.
Getting Started↓
Administration & Processes↓
Access to courses, annual processes including rollover
New Academic Year ↓
Guides to help you get started in the new Academic Year
- Getting ready for the new academic year: checklist – start here
- Customise your list of courses
- How and when are students enrolled?
- Enrol other staff delivering the course
- Review your course menu
- Make any required changes to your course menu
- Make ‘My Marks’ available to students
- Update module Reading Lists
- Review course material using Blackboard Ally
- Make tests available to students
- Bulk editing dates of availability of items
- Share video content from Stream
- Reusing Stream videos in 2021/22
- Setting up live interactive sessions online
- Make your courses available to students
- What to do with your courses from last year?
Course Rollover ↓
Scheduled downtime and maintenance ↓
Course content↓
Design & manage module, course menu, adding content to a course
The course↓
The menu↓
The content↓
- Creating and editing an item
- Creating a content folder
- Upload content using drag & drop
- Rearrange items in the content pages
- How to copy or move content items in Blackboard
- Statistics tracking on content items
- Course links
- Learning Modules
- Embed videos and other media from media hosting websites
- Uploading and embedding audio and video files into your blackboard course
- Create a mashup to show external web hosted content
- Create a weblink
- Linking to Box of Broadcasts
- Adaptive release
Content Collection↓
Customisation↓
Communication↓
Learning Activities↓
Users & Groups↓
Enrolling users, roles, groups
Users↓
Groups↓
- Groups – getting started
- Creating a manual enrol group in your course
- Creating a self-enrol group in your course
- How students access self-enrol groups
- Group sets – getting started
- Creating multiple self-enrol groups for your course
- Creating multiple random enrol groups for your course
- Creating multiple manual enrol groups for your course
- Groups – how to import students
- Smart view for groups
Sign-up lists↓
Assesssment↓
Blackboard Assignment, Turnitin Assignment and Blackboard Test
Blackboard Assignment↓
Turnitin Assignment↓
Blackboard Test↓
Grade Centre↓
All guidance on using the Grade Centre
Columns↓
- Grade centre column – quick information
- Creating a column in the grade centre
- Making marks & feedback available/unavailable to students
- Grade centre – using calculated columns
- Include grades in calculated columns
- Grade centre – using column organisation
- Downloading marks, and marking offline
- Viewing grade centre column statistics
- Colour coding in the grade centre
SmartViews↓
Page last updated on January 13, 2023 by taralehane
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