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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↓ Getting started with TEL About Blackboard Logging in Navigating around Blackboard   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 ↓ Useful information about Course Rollover Course Rollover – Dates and Details Why are assignment submission points not copied as part of rollover? The default menu for new Modules/Programme areas Merged Courses and Supplementary courses   Scheduled downtime and maintenance ↓ Scheduled Blackboard and Turnitin downtime and maintenance   Course content↓ Design & manage module, course menu, adding content to a course The course↓ Make a course available   The menu↓ Customising a course menu Adding the ‘My Marks’ tool to the course menu Setting up links to your Talis reading list The menu on my course has disappeared   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↓ Overwriting files Using the fileshare Reusable objects   Customisation↓ Adding a banner image to your course   Communication↓ Using Blackboard for communication Announcements↓ Creating an announcement   Email↓ Send an email to your students Send submission reminder (email non-submitters)   Learning Activities↓ Blog, Journal, Wiki, Discussion Board Blog↓ Blackboard blogs and journals Blackboard blog: marking and feedback    Journal↓ Blackboard blogs and journals Blackboard journals: marking and feedback   Wiki↓ Blackboard wikis Blackboard wikis: marking and feedback   Discussion board↓ Creating discussion forums Moderating discussion board forums   Users & Groups↓ Enrolling users, roles, groups Users↓ How and when are students enrolled on courses? Enrolling users on your course Removing yourself and colleagues from courses Changing the role of a course member Guest access to courses External examiners – set up it account The external examiner course role   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↓ Sign-up lists   Assesssment↓ Blackboard Assignment, Turnitin Assignment and Blackboard Test Blackboard Assignment↓ All about Blackboard Assignments →   Turnitin Assignment↓ All about Turnitin Assignments →   Blackboard Test↓ All about Blackboard Tests →   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↓ Using smart views Smart view for groups Setting up an internal moderation smartview Setting up external examiner smart views Setting up a turnitin smart viewhttps://www.bb.reading.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/xid-14092390_4