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Add Extended Time for an Accommodation
Do you have a student with a disibility request for an accommodation
allowing them additional time on a test? If you use Blackboard for tests
and quizzes, there is a setting that easily allows you to adjust the timer
for individual students. Follow these steps:
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Teaching & Learning with Blackboard
This video will give you a quick overview of some of the most important
instructional tools in Blackboard, such as the Announcements tool, adding
multimedia, Discussion Forums, and Assignments.
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Copying Courses in Blackboard
Copying course materials into an existing course will add content to a
course, but it won't remove existing content. You can only copy materials
into a course if you have the role of instructor, teaching assistant (TA),
or course builder.
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Getting Started with Kaltura in Blackboard (2:45)
This short video will show you how to: Add the My Media module to your
Blackboard homepage Record a video using Kaltura CaptureSpace Add a video
to a course in Blackboard using Mashups
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Copy your Bb Course content into a New Course
Copying course materials into a new course will add content to a course,
but it won't remove existing content. You can only copy materials into a
course if you have the role of instructor, teaching assistant (TA), or
course builder.
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Calculating Grades
It's almost that time of the semester again....time to pull up your Excel
spreadsheets, your calculator and red pen, and a box of Kleenex to sop up
the tears of frustration from calculating grades manually. Wouldn't it be
great if there was a program that calculated all of those assignments and
percentages for you? There is!
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Make Your Course Available
When courses are created, they are unavailable to students until the
instructor decides to make the course available. Once you decide that the
course is ready and you make it available, MaineStreet will populate your
course with a student roster in 24 hours. Here's how to make your course
available:
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Inserting an iFrame into Blackboard
iFrames will allow you to embed content from another website directly
alongside your own materials. Learn the basics of how to insert an iframe
in Blackboard and get access to the list of supported domains.
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Creating Announcements in Your Course (2:38)
Announcements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical
to course success, such as Due dates for assignments and projects, changes
to your syllabus or exam schedules. When you add an announcement, you can
also send it as an email to students in your course. This way, students
receive the announcement even if they don't log in to your course.
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Keep Your Old Course
Courses are kept on the Blackboard server typically for 2 years and are
then put in a deletion cycle. If you would like to keep your old courses,
there are some steps you need to take.
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Grading Assignments (2:38)
This tutorial shows you how to use the grading sidebar to see assignment
submissions and annotate them with feedback for students.
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Discussion Board
Discussion forums are used extensively in distance education as a way for
students to "participate" in class, share resources, and engage in dialog
around course concepts.
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Submit Individual Papers for Plagiarism
Direct Submit allows faculty members to submit one paper at a time or
multiple papers at once in a ZIP file format for a plagiarism check.
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Plagiarism Reports for Individual Papers
Direct Submit allows faculty members to submit one paper at a time or
multiple papers at once in a ZIP file format for a plagiarism check.
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