You can control when your course is private—or unavailable—to your students. For example, you may not want students to access your course while it is under construction.
A blog is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended to share with others. Most blogs also have a commenting feature, so that people can respond to one another's thoughts. Blogs encourage students to clearly express their ideas. Blogs also address the need to expand various aspects of social learning. From the instructor's point of view, blogs are an effective means of gaining insight into students' activities and provide a way to share the knowledge and materials collecte
Add a co-instructor or teaching assistant to a Blackboard course.
The Blackboard course menu allows students to easily navigate through your course.
Blackboard's Test Availability Exceptions settings allow you to provide accommodations to individual users or specific groups, such as: multiple attempts, timer customization, auto-submit toggle, and extended test access dates/times.
UND policy requires that user accounts will be removed on a regular basis after resignation or termination from UND.
How to use Blackboard's Ally feature to improve the accessibility of your course content.
You can control when your course is private—or unavailable—to your students. For example, you may not want students to access your course during the building process.
Blackboard's Statistics Tracking feature allows instructors to view detailed access/usage statistics for selected content items in their course. This feature must be manually enabled in the settings of each content item you would like to track. It may be turned on after students have already interacted with the item, but the report will not include their previous activity.
Each student's exam attempt has a corresponding 'Test Information' page with detailed access/interaction information: total time elapsed, start date/time, and submission date/time. For more details, see the Access Log (accessible from the same menu). This tool includes the date/time of the student's activity in an exam: test start, question saves, submission date/time, and (approximate) time per question.
Yes, Blackboard is available for UND groups and organizations.
By default, Bb exam questions and answers appear to students in the same order that they were created or added to a test. This article explains how instructors can set questions/answers to appear in a different, random order for each student or attempt -or- pull a set number of random questions from a Pool.
How to set a default point value that will be automatically applied to all new questions added to the desired Blackboard test: This setting should be applied before you add content to your Blackboard test — if you change the default point value after adding questions, the old questions will retain the previous value. Only new questions will have the new value. Note: this feature is not available for questions in pools and surveys.
UND has access to content management where you can store, share, and publish content. You can store and find content in personal, course, and institution folders in the Content Collection, and link to these files in different areas of your course. You can store files you upload to your course in the Content Collection and link to them again.
Blackboard Ultra has built-in reports that instructors can run to view information about course usage and activity.
To build a successful online community, students need the tools to interact and have conversations. Through conversation, we learn about each other, ourselves, the topic, how to get along, and make group decisions. Though time and geography limit some of our conversations, the power of the connection using varied conversation technologies build community.
Students report that their satisfaction with online courses relates to instructor presence and the collaboration and sense of community the
A listing and description of Blackboard user roles.
Wikis allow all course members to help build pages of course-related materials, providing a space for collaborative learning. This article explains: how to create a new wiki page in any Blackboard course, wiki grading, and wiki deletion.
You can link to a tool, such as the main Blogs page — or link directly to a specific instance of that tool, like a blog entry. You can also link to the overall 'Tools' area, so that students can access a list of all of the tools available in your course.
You can change the possible points awarded for answering questions correctly in two ways. For both ways, new grades are recalculated for all previously submitted tests.
This article contains instructions for instructors to combine multiple course sites into a single merged Blackboard course. This simplifies course management, as everything can be accessed in one place. Instructors may submit a request to combine multiple course sections into one Blackboard site here:
https://apps.und.edu/course-request/
Use the contacts tool to add profile information about yourself and other staff for students. You can provide information about office hours, phone numbers, and other links to help students find the people who have important roles in your course.
Steps to copy or export a test/exam to another course.
Steps to copy content in Blackboard. Two options are available:
1) Copy items from one area to another (in the same Bb course)
2) Copy items from one course to another in Blackboard
Blackboard Courses are automatically created using roster information from Campus Connection. If your department has changed instructors for a course, but has not changed the information in Campus Connection, the old instructor will still be listed in Blackboard.
You can create one or more journals for your students to use in your course. You must create journal topics before students can add their entries.
A question pool is a collection of questions that is stored for repeated use.
You can use pools to create tests and surveys. You can also export and import pools for use in tests in other courses.
Announcements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical to course success.
In the Grade Center, when an item is graded, a numeric score appears in the students' cells by default. You can choose to display grades in other ways with grading schemas. A schema takes the points scored on an item and compares it to the item's total points possible to derive a percentage. This percentage is mapped to a range of scores and displays a grade, such as a letter (A, B, C) or Pass/Fail. This information is presented in a table format.
To edit or delete an announcement, select Edit or Delete in its menu. The delete action is final and irreversible.
DirectSubmit generates SafeAssign reports on papers not uploaded to an assignment with the SafeAssign service. You can use DirectSubmit to add papers to the institutional database. Whenever possible, Blackboard advises you to create assignments with the SafeAssign submission option selected.
Instructors may follow these steps to enable SafeAssign (an automatic plagiarism scanner) for any written assignment in Blackboard.
Learn how to export exams from Respondus to Word for editing.
Steps to find submitted student assignments in Blackboard.
Return to the page where you originally submitted this assignment. Click on the link to the assignment. In the submission history, check the date/time of your submission. This is proof you submitted your assignment, and the instructor would have this information as well.
Instead of creating a quiz question by question within Respondus, you may prefer to create the quiz using Word.
Check out our new tool called Bb Annotate! You can use Bb Annotate for inline grading in both the Original Course and Ultra Course Views. Bb Annotate offers a more robust feature set to provide customizable feedback to students. Features include a sidebar summary view, freehand drawing tools, various color selections, and much more.
In your Original course, you can create groups one at a time or in sets. After you create a group, you can edit the group's tools, name, availability, and members.
You can't create course groups in the Ultra Course View, but you can create group assignments.
The course entry point is the first area users see when they enter your course. The default course entry point is the Home Page and contains modules that alert students to activity in your course.
If you know a student is enrolled in your course but they do not see the course listed in the course list, they may have enrolled, dropped, and re-added the course in Campus Connection. This is how instructors can fix this issue and grant the student course access.
Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit for grading. Compatible with Mac and Windows.
Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit for grading. Compatible with Mac and Windows.
The overall score is an indicator of what percentage of the submitted paper matches existing sources. This score is a warning indicator only and papers should be reviewed to see if the matches are properly attributed.
Steps to make a Blackboard course or organization available for a specific user.
This method allows you to make a copy of your course on your computer or a CD-Rom. If you are developing a course or making major revisions to a course, you may wish to make a copy as a backup.
How to rearrange announcements in Blackboard.
Advisors can request the creation of an Organization site in Blackboard dedicated to working and communicating with their advisees. Please see this article for more information about the process.
No. Faculty accounts are requested by the head of the department or the administrative assistant for the department after the faculty member is hired.
If you are unsure if you have a Blackboard account you can try logging in using your NDUS.Identifier and password (the same ones you use to log in to your UND computer or to HRMS).
Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard Learn
How to fix the license renewal problem encountered when updating Respondus 4.
This article outlines how users may set up the sever used by Respondus to publish tests to Blackboard courses.
Exam publishing instructions for Respondus. Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard Learn.
Instructions to resolve the "Fix It" error seen by students attempting to take a RLDB exam.
You can search the content available to you in the Content Collection.
You can allow students to submit more than one attempt for an assignment.
Multiple attempts can help students stay on track, raise the quality of assignments, and ultimately improve student success and retention. Students can submit drafts and earn credit on improvements. Inform students which assignments allow multiple attempts, and what the expectations and grading policies are for each attempt.
When an Announcement is added to a course, students are automatically able to see the announcement in the My Announcements module after logging into Blackboard.
If you wish to also send an email notification to each student, you must select "Send a copy of this announcement immediately" when creating the announcement.
If allowed, you can control whether or not the guest and observer roles have access to your course. You also have control over the content they can see. Your institution must create the accounts and associate observers with students.
A tutorial to toggle between show/hide menu items.
The Blackboard building block integration for Pearson MyLab has been deprecated, causing issues with existing courses. Faculty need to transition to the new Access Pearson LTI 1.3 tool using the steps in this article.
Instructors can turn Edit Mode on and off to switch between Edit Mode and the approximate view that Students will see.
The Performance Dashboard shows you all types of user activity in your course or organization. All users enrolled in your course are listed, including instructors, students, teaching assistants, graders, observers, and guests, with pertinent information about each user's progress and activity.