Blackboard for Instructors

Get Started

• Deploy your course
• Ultra Base Navigation (Faculty)
• Blackboard Ultra: FAQ / Known Issues
• Log in to Blackboard
• Set course availability
• Add your name to course banner

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Build & Maintain Your Course

• Create an assignment
• Using rubrics
• Create content areas and folders
• Create a discussion board forum
• Create a new test
• Create a journal

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Grade Your Students

• Course Grading Tool
• Grade assignments (Inline Grading Tool)
• Grade discussion board posts
• Group assignments
• Add due date exception for a test

Taskstream

• Navigate Taskstream
• Evaluate a student submission

Your Grade Center

• Hide unavailable students
• Clear or ignore an attempt or submission
• Add a new column (manual grade entry)

Tools for Your Course

• Announcements
• SafeAssign assignments
• SafeAssign: Submissions & Originality reports
• Student preview tool
• Surveys
• Groups: Edit Group Members in Blackboard

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Accessibility

• Accessibility guide for online course content
• Guide for creating accessible Blackboard courses
• Guide for creating accessible Word documents