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Add a content area to the course menu - This
video demonstrates creating a new Content Area in an
empty Blackboard course; Content Areas can then have
items uploaded into them.
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Create an item - Covers the most basic
function in constructing a course, adding an item,
such as a document, link or file to your Blackboard
course site.
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Make an
item unavailable/available - Covers the
basics of making any content item unavailable or
available in Blackboard, including date-range
available. Does not cover adaptive release
availability.
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Using the assignment manager - Faster and
more powerful than the old Digital Drop Box, the
Assignment Manager is the tool that we recommend for
creating and accepting student assignments. This
video shows the process of adding an Assignment to a
content area, how a student would use the Assignment
to submit a paper, how the instructor can view,
grade, and provide feedback to the student, and how
the student would view that grade and feedback.
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Using a TurnItIn assignment - If you are
concerned about the possibility of plagiarism, and
want to know how original the text of student papers
really ma be, have your students submit papers
digitally to you via TurnItIn. This video shows the
process of setting up a TurnItIn Assignment in
Blackboard, how a student would submit an
assignment, what a typical originality report from
TurnItIn looks like, and how to grade a student's
TurnItIn Assignment in Blackboard. An
instructor's manual (6 pages, PDF) is also
available.
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Import a course cartridge - This video walks
through the process of importing a publisher's
course cartridge into a Blackboard course. Prior to
the start of this video, it is assumed you have
already received a Cartridge Download Key
from the publisher. For information on obtaining a
Cartridge Download Key from your publisher, contact
your publisher's sales representative.
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Copy course content into another course -
This video shows the process of copying course
materials from one course into another; this is the
process for copying your content into "next
semester's courses".
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Copy items into another course - This video
shows how to copy a single item from one course into
another. The same steps would allow a copy of an
entire folder of items, or allow copying from one
place to another in the same course site.
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Using the
Wimba Voice Tools - a series of
15 screen videos with related PDF documents
which demonstrate how to use the Voice
Authoring, Voice Email, Voice Board, Voice
Presenter, and Podcast tools within Blackboard.
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Embed a YouTube Video - This video
demonstrates how to embed a YouTube video in a
Blackboard content area.
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Use a Persistent URL (PURL) to link to a research
journal article - This video demonstrates
how to construct persistent URLs to published
journal articles withing the databases the college
library subscribes to. This is a much more
efficient (and legal) method of leading your
students to journal articles than copying and
uploading them.
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Upload and link to an audio file within
Blackboard - Shows the procedure from
transferring a WMA audio file from your local
computer to Blackboard and creating a link to
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"Teaching
with Blackboard" How-to Screen Videos
