Individual Tutorials for Specific Tasks

ADA Accessibility

• BrowseAloud accessibility toolbar
• BrowseAloud tutorial video
• Ally accessibility feedback feature in Content Editor (WYSIWYG mentioned in the video means What You See Is What You Get.)
• Accessibility checklist (A list of things that are checked by Ally accessibility feedback feature.)

Alternative Tools

• Zoom

Assignments

• Associating rubrics video with assignments, gradable blogs, discussion forums, etc.
• Bb Annotate
• Bulk Download Bb Assignments
• Creating a grading rubric video  (This is for all Blackboard native tools, not for Turnitin assignment)
• Downloading students' SafeAssign similarity reports
• Grading an assignment with rubric video
• Grading assignments on the Blackboard Instructor App video
• Inline grading for assignments video

Attendance Tool

• Setting and using the Attendance tool
   
  

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (BCU)

• Using tools and features in a BCU session
• Sharing audio and video content in a BCU session
• Understanding Attendees Roles (ex: Moderator, Participant, Presenter)
• Obtaining session attendance report
• Integrating BCU Session Report to Grade Center
• Accessing session recordings and number of views on each of the recordings
• Using breakout rooms in your session
• Using polls in your session (If you want to download polling results, make sure to fill in some text for questions and answer choices in your poll. Otherwise, nothing is recorded in the polling report. If you display questions and answer choices on a slide, in the poll, type question 1, question 2 or Q1, Q2 in the question field, a, b, c, etc. in the answer fields.)
• Sharing your session Guest Link

Combining rosters from multiple course sections into one section

• Using course Merge/Unmerge tool

Course Customization

• Changing course entry point and adding a course banner video
• Making your course available to students
• Using the 2016 Course Theme

Discussion Board

• Making a past discussion forum available only
• Viewing all posts on one page
• Downloading discussion forum threads/posts

Grading

• Audio/Video feedback in Grade Center
• Creating Grade columns with Non-Blackboard assign and Recording Grades
• Grade Center

LinkedIn Learning

• Adding LinkedIn Learning Content to Bb
• Adding your instructional videos to LinkedIn Learning and post the links in your Bb course
• Connecting your LinkedIn profile with LinkedIn Learning
• Logging into LinkedIn Learning

Monitoring student progress in a large class

Blackboard has a "Retention Center" tool that enables instructors to easily see students who haven't participated in class activities recently or have lower performance, and communicate with those students.  This tool is especially useful in large classes where instructors may not be able to track students' progress frequently. 

• Using the Retention Center to monitor students' progress

Peer Review and Assessment

Peer review and assessment can provide a powerful learning experience for students. On one hand, students can interact with peers and learn how to provide constructive critique. On the other hand, more importantly, students could gain deeper learning when they review and assess peers' work. To make peer review fair and more effective, provide criteria based on which students review peers' work and provide feedback. You can also involve students to develop criteria for peer review and assessment.

There are several tools for peer review and assessment in Bb.

Peer review and assessment Discussion Board

You can create a discussion forum and ask students to post their work by creating a thread, and review or assess peers' work by replying to peers' threads. To ensure all students get an equal number of reviews, you can ask students to review to 2 peers' work, and each student can only get 2 reviews. That is, if student X has got 2 reviews, no one else should review student X' work.

• Create forums on Discussion Board
• Grade discussion forums

Blog

Similar as Discussion Board, you can create a blog for students to post their work as blog entries. Each blog entry has a comment link at the bottom for peers and instructor to provide review feedback.

• Create a blog
• Grade blog entries

The Self and Peer Assessment and Turnitin PeerMark listed below provide structured peer review and assessment. These two tools ensure that each student will review the same number of peers' work by design.

Self and Peer Assessment

• Create and Edit Self and Peer Assessments
• Preview, Evaluate, and Manage Self and Peer Assessments

Turnitin PeerMark

Tutorials on how to create Turnitin PeerMark assignments

Plagiarism Checking

• Bulk Downloading Turnitin assignments
• Downloading students' Turnitin similarity reports

Re-use Course Materials

• Adjusting due dates and release dates after course copy – Bb Date Management
• Re-using course content only (not assignments, grade center, etc.)
• Re-using the entire course

Simple Syllabus

• Accessing Simple Syllabus from your Bb Courses

Student View

• Viewing your course from a student’s view – Bb Student Preview

Tests

• Setting Test Options
• Clear an attempt/grade
• Check test/exam logs
• Displaying Test question numbers
• Enhanced Test Options – it enables instructors to give extra time for students with special needs in a test
• Export and import a test
• Grading questions one at a time
• Upload test questions
• Using the Random Blocks tool to reduce cheating in tests
• Downloading Test Results
• Test question types and how to create each of them

Text Editor Tools

• Updated text/content editor
• Using ADA accessibility feedback feature to improve accessibility in the text/content editor
• Accessibility checklist
• Adding social media to enrich your student’s learning experience – Bb Mashup Option
• Textbox (audio)
• Using Chemistry Notations
• Using Math Editor

Turnitin Assignments

Started on July 28, 2022, Turnitin integration in Bb is switched from a building block to a LTI tool.  (LTI denotes Learning Tools Interoperability. It is a standard developed by IMS Global Learning Consortium to enable learning tools from different vendors to be embedded in a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Blackboard.)

The transition to Turnitin LTI integration introduces some differences in the user interface. Click the link below to view the tutorials for the new Turnitin.

• How to use Turnitin LTI
• Bulk download Turnitin LTI assignments

User Management

• Using the Attendance tool
• Changing user roles
• Changing user availability
• Enrolling a user in a Bb Organization
• Viewing and downloading class roster

Video Content

• Collecting video files with Dropbox file requests - when signing into Dropbox, use CUNYFirst credentials
• Embedding unlisted video on YouTube in your Blackboard course
• Using Dropbox to share video links

Blackboard for Faculty main page

Center for Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies (CTLET) home page