Blackboard Original Course View

Overview Blackboard is a full-featured learning management system (LMS). It provides an integrated set of tools to support course delivery, learning communities, content management, and assessment. Teachers can set up courses in Blackboard for stu...

Overview Applicable to all course content items You can use adaptive release to show the appropriate content, to select individuals, at the appropriate time You can add four types of criteria when you create rules: Date Membership Grade Revi...

Overview You can use " Test " feature to create online  tests for students to take in your Blackboard courses.  This guide aims to highlight some best practices in a step by step style for your consideration. Recorded Traini...

Overview Applicable to Test (and Survey) only For existing test availability settings, you can make exceptions for individual students or groups If the settings exist for a test or survey, you can create these exceptions: Number of attempts Ti...

Overview The Zoom integration provides a convenient one-stop access for both teachers, TAs, support staff, and students. Teachers, TAs and support staff members can schedule, start and manage meetings there. Also, students can join Zoom meetings an...

Overview Applicable to all course menu items, course content items, assignments and tests Particular useful for checking adaptive release and test availability exceptions configurations. Steps: Access an item's menu.  Select “...

Overview  With CUHK User Management tool, Instructors and TA/Support Staff can: Enroll Users Remove Users Change User Role Change User Availability Steps: On the Control Panel , expand Course Tools , and select CUHK User Manag...

Respondus ( Respondus 4.0 Videos ) is a Windows based test authoring software, which particularly suits teachers who would like to build relatively huge question pools. With Respondus, you can create online tests using word processing tools that you...

Click “Groups” > “Create” > under Group Set “Manual Enroll”. Fill in the group information (e.g. group set name, number of groups). Click on “Submit”. A smart view is a focused look at the ...

You need to have the "Group Codes" of the groups before you can import members into the groups.  Get the group codes using one of the following methods Export Groups Export groups to generate group codes, which are useful for impor...

Common Usage of Student Preview Check Tests and Assignments which are available to students. Check Adaptive Release “Membership” setting (e.g. enroll the preview user account to a certain group to check if an item is visible/invisible...

Overview “Randomize Questions” under Test Options randomizes all questions in a test. If teachers would like to randomize part of the questions, they should use question set. You can choose the number of questions from the question ...

Overview Instructor and TA/Support Staff can make a full copy of course materials from a source course to an existing destination course. If you would like to copy several items from the source course only, please consider the below method: Blackb...

Introduction Wanting to share a resource with your students but not knowing how or where? This article introduces features in Blackboard which you can use to share the following content items with your students: lecture notes, which are in .docx...

Instroduction Teachers often wonder how they can create a supportive learning environment on Blackboard.  This article will introduce features in Blackboard which you can use to create a supportive e-learning environment and engage students ...

Target audience: New Blackboard Course Instructors / TAs / Supporting Staff Estimated time for going through this checklist: 30 minutes About This checklist lists out basic features of Blackboard. If you would like to go through the tasks in a ...

Introduction Assessment is about more than just grading. It's about gaining insight into student progress, getting feedback to improve teaching and learning, and measuring the effectiveness of a course. In this article, you can learn about fe...

Introduction You can use tests and surveys* to measure student knowledge, gauge progress, and gather information from students. *Survey questions aren't graded, and student responses are anonymous  ⚠️ FAQ: Test VS Assignment  Test...

Overview A smart view is a focused look at the Grade Center that shows only the columns that match a set of criteria. When the Grade Center includes a great number of students and columns, you can use smart views to quickly find data. This article...

Overview Teachers can create Self-Enrol groups for students to sign up. Please remind students that they can't unenroll themselves from groups. In case students enrol in a wrong group, you could follow the steps below to edit the group membe...

Overview Teachers can access Blackboard Grade Center to review and grade assignment attempts online. This article introduces how to: Access assignment attempts in Grade Center Annotate the assignment attempts Provide feedback to students Step...

Overview Teachers can now bulk upload feedback files for assignments. There are five steps: Download the submissions Create feedback Upload grades, feedback, and feedback file Release Grades Check uploaded grades and feedback ...

Scenario A student reported that she encountered issues while she was taking an online test on Blackboard. The teacher would like to grant her extra time during the test. Steps Access the Test's menu and select 'Edit the Test Options'...