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Online Faculty Services
Note: These pages are intended
for use by Palomar College Faculty only. If you are a student looking for
information about Palomar's online classes, please refer to the
online class server.
Note:
To log in to
Blackboard, use the same username and password combination as you
would use to access a computer on the campus network. (This is
the same username and password you use when accessing Palomar
email.) Input your username as (for example) "JSmith2", with whatever
password you normally use, and you will be able to access the
system. If you are unsure what your email/network login
password is, you should contact the Information Services Helpdesk at
X2140.
Tools:
Instructions:
"Teaching with Blackboard"
Videos:Flash tutorials require the use of the
Macromedia Flash Player, and play instructional movies such
as the "Teaching with Blackboard" Videos.
| Content Management |
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Adding 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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Adding An Item - Covers the most
basic function in constructing a course, Adding an Item.
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Using a TurnItIn
Assignment - Concerned about the possibility of
plagiarism? Want to know how original the text of
student papers really is? 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 the Blackboard
gradebook. An Instructor Manual from TurnItIn is also available in PDF
format.
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Using the Assignment
Manager - Faster than a speeding file, more powerful than
the Digital Drop Box; look, up in the (upper-right) menu,
it's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Assignment Manager!
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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Importing 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 rep.
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Copying 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 courses".
- Copying 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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Exporting Your
Blackboard Course - This video demonstrates running a
Course Export, resulting in a file that may be imported to
another Blackboard course.
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Archiving Your
Blackboard Course - This video shows how to generate and
save a Course Archive, which is suitable for either
importing material into another Blackboard course or for use
as a backup of your course.
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Importing to
Your Blackboard Course - So you've got a course export
or archive? Here is a demonstration of how to import
in that file to your Blackboard course.
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Using Review Status - In
this demonstration I examine the Review Status function in
Blackboard, and show how it can tie in with Adaptive Release
of materials.
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Building a Test
- This video walks through the procedure of creating and
deploying an assessment. If you wish to follow along with
this video, you may
download the Word document containing the sample questions
here.
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Using The Gradebook
- Referred to in the "Building a Test" video, this video
deals with assessment entries in the Gradebook, as well as
some basics on adding other content into the Gradebook.
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Viewing Names and Total Points Only in the Gradebook -
This video shows the simple solution to the vexing problem
of having to scroll sideways to match student names with
total points in the gradebook.
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Manipulating the
Gradebook - This video demonstrates several ways to
filter the gradebook view, how to grade an essay question in
an assessment, how to suppress the class average from the
student "My Grades" list, and how to suppress the "Weighted
Total" row from the student "My Grades" list.
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Making Your Course
Available - Before your students can begin using your
Blackboard course, you will have to make the course available to
them. This video shows you exactly how to do it!
- Uploading a Course Banner -
Demonstrates how to add an image as a Course Banner.
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Viewing Course Statistics
- The Blackboard system tracks student usage of course areas; see
how to view those statistics from your Control Panel.
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Enabling Guest Access to Your
Course - If you want non-students to access your course site,
they will have to be guests to do so. This video shows you the
steps to make your course available to guests, and shows the steps a
guest will go through to access your course. There is also a "guest
point-of-view" video demonstrating exactly what a guest will go
through.
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