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Blackboard for Instructors

Get Started

  • Deploy your course
  • Log in to Blackboard
  • Add your name to course header
  • Copy course content
  • Set course availability

Build & Maintain Your Course

  • Create a rubric
  • Create an assignment
  • Create a new discussion board forum
  • Create content areas and folders
  • Create a new test
  • Edit files from your course's content collection
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Grade Your Students

  • Grade assignments (Inline Grading Tool)
  • Grade discussion board posts
  • Course Grading Tool
  • Add test exemption for student

Taskstream

  • Navigate Taskstream
  • Evaluate a student submission in Taskstream

Your Grade Center

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

Tools for Your Course

  • Use announcements in your course
  • Collaborate for instructors / faculty
  • Turnitin for instructors
  • SafeAssign for instructors
  • Student preview tool

Accessibility

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