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- Blackboard Basics (video 56:11 ) - Comprehensive video of the Blackboard Information Session.
- Pre-Class Week 2022: Blackboard Basics for Instructors w/ Chinaza Onyile. (video 1:01:19 .
- Online Learning Best Practices – (.pdf) A list of best practices for Online Learning.
- The Course Environment - (.pdf) A visual breakdown of the Blackboard course environment.
- Support Documents for Blackboard (OneDrive shared folder) – Includes Blackboard training information on Announcements, Calendar Assignments, discussion boards, and more.
- Adding Audio or Video Feedback for Students - (.pdf) Benefits to using Audio/Video to provide feedback to students improves student response to feedback; makes grading more efficient, and improves instructor-student relationships.
- Not Receiving Instructor Emails from Blackboard - (.pdf) This document will show you how to update that setting so you can receive these important emails.
- Understanding Ultra Courses -(video 4:26 ) This video provides an overview of the new Blackboard Ulta Course structure.
- Status Update website - This website provides information about current Blackboard outages and scheduled maintenance.
- MercerOnline-Blackboard Learn (original view) Tutorials (videos) Includes Blackboard information on course copies, submitting grades and more.
- Accessing your courses (coming soon)
- Using the Text Editor
- Creating Announcements (video 0:52) - Announcements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical to course success.
- Creating Discussion Boards (video 1:46) - This tutorial will demonstrate how to create forums and threads to organize discussions into units or topics.
- Setting Discussion Boards to "Read-Only" (video 2:01) - This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a discussion form and make it "read only".
- How to Copy Course Content (video 6:46) - This tutorial will demonstrate how to copy course content.
- Course Copy Original Learn (.pdf)
- Exporting and Archiving Courses (.pdf)
- The Performance Dashboard (video 1:05) - The performance dashboard helps you monitor student progress and keep students on track.
- Blackboard Retention Center (pdf) The Retention Center provides easy-to-use data visualization and pre-configured rules for identifying at-risk students in a course.