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Steps to submit your Blackboard assignments.

Your instructor can add assignments to different areas of your course. You might access assignments from a link on the course menu called Assignments. Or, your instructor might incorporate assignments into each week's content. Ask your instructor if you have questions about how your course is organized.

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.

Instructors may follow these steps to enable SafeAssign (an automatic plagiarism scanner) for any written assignment in Blackboard.

A tutorial to toggle between show/hide menu items.

You can add files, images, audio, and video when you create content in your course. For example, in discussions, you can browse for a media clip from your computer or your course's file repository: Course Files or the Content Collection.

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.

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

To view grades for all of your courses, select the arrow next to your name in the upper-right corner. In the menu, select My Grades. You can sort your grades by All Courses or Last Graded. If your work hasn't been graded, grade status icons appear.

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.

Blackboard Grade Center has an export/import feature which will produce a downloadable, specially-formatted spreadsheet that can be used to work on grading while you are offline. When you are finished editing the grades in that local file (using Excel), you can save your changes and import the document back in to the Grade Center in order to sync your updates/edits from offline over to the online Grade Center.

Vevox allows you to create a live poll or quiz that can be inserted into any PowerPoint presentation, creating a dynamic learning environment that students will remember. Please see this article for information about getting started and links to video demos of the product's features (including AI and interactive tools).

Steps to copy or export a test/exam to another course.

Steps for students to create a Blog entry on their Blackboard course site.

Instructors can turn Edit Mode on and off to switch between Edit Mode and the approximate view that Students will see.