Blackboard for Instructors

Get Started

• Deploy your course to Blackboard
• Blackboard: FAQ / Known issues
• Log in to Blackboard
• Email your class from Blackboard
• Course Engagement Form
• Ultra Base Navigation (Faculty)

Build & Maintain Your Course

• Add your name to course banner
• Change your course home page
• Create content areas and folders
• Create a content item
• Enroll a TA in your course
• Upload files to your course in Blackboard

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Tools for Your Course

• Add a tool to your course menu
• Create an assignment
• Create and use rubrics
• Create a discussion board forum
• Create a journal
• Create a test

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Grade Your Students

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

Your Grade Center

• Add a new column to the Grade Center
• Enter a 'manual entry' grade
• Clear or ignore an attempt or submission
• Hide unavailable students
• Organize the columns in your Grade Center
• Remove a column from the Grade Center

Taskstream

• Navigate Taskstream
• Evaluate a student submission

Accessibility

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