Faculty Resources
Most of the tutorials on this page have been updated to Blackboard 9
and can be found at
http://www.gcccd.edu/online/faculty/faculty-resources.html.
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- Teaching with Blackboard Online Course
- This web page will introduce you to the self-paced online course called Teaching with Blackboard. You can work through this course at any time. You don't have to take the whole course; you can just review the parts that interest you.
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- Blackboard Container Preparation
- This web page explains all the things you need to do to get started with preparing a container in Blackboard for your courses.
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- Request a Development Container
- This tutorial will show faculty how to request a container for course development purposes.
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- Copy a Blackboard Container
- This tutorial will show you how to copy one Blackboard container to another. This can be useful at the beginning of the semester when you copy your old Blackboard class information into the new section container.
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- Merge Courses
- If you teach multiple sections of the same exact course, there is a merge tool available to merge the students from these sections into one course. You would then teach your course out of just the one merged container. The merge tool links the enrollments from the section containers that you merge into the one container that you choose to teach from.
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- Import Blackboard Template
- The Blackboard Template for Cuyamaca College provides a model of how to organize a course for teaching with Blackboard. It has many resources to help you get started preparing a course in Blackboard.
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- Recycle (Erase) a Blackboard Container
- These steps will show you how to wipe a container clean, leaving no content or menu items in it, so that you can use it for another class or project. This will erase everything in the container.
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- How to Log In to Blackboard for Students
- This tutorial will show students how to log in to Blackboard to access their online class material.
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- How to Change Your email Address in Blackboard
- As of June, 2009, changes you make to your email address in Blackboard will be replaced every night by the email address you have listed in WebAdvisor. So please change your email address in WebAdvisor by following the steps on this page:
http://www.cuyamaca.edu/tlc/bb/docs/webadvisor-email.asp
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- Course Availability
- Students cannot see your course until you make it available. This tutorial will show you how to make it available.
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- Hide Courses on the Welcome Page
- Now that Snapshot is generating course containers for you every semester, you may find that there are courses showing on your Blackboard Welcome Page that you don't need this semester. Blackboard provides a way to hide or show only the courses you want. This video will show you how.
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- Make PDF Files
- How to install the PDF add-in for Microsoft Office 2007. This will allow you to create PDF files of your documents from Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. PDF documents can be viewed by all students without the need for them to purchase Microsoft products.
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- Change Course Banner
- This tutorial will show you the steps to take to change the banner that appears at the top of the announcements in a Blackboard course.
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- Creating an Assignment
- You will learn how to create a Blackboard Assignment in this video. The Assignments tool allows students to turn in files to the instructor and allows the instructor to retrieve these files, grade them, and return them to the students with additional feedback. This tool can be used instead of sending papers or other files as email attachments or using the Drop Box.
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- Submitting an Assignment
- This video will show the process by which a student will submit an assignment. Faculty can link to this video from their courses to provide instructions for students.
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- Archive Your Course
- An archive is a complete backup of your course. It includes the students, all their work, all discussions, course statistics, grades, etc. These archives are meant to be used as backups for your course, not for transferring your content from one container to another.
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- Grade Center Quick Start Guide
- This is a document created by Blackboard to show the new features in the Grade Center released with version 8.0
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- Grade Center Unmasked
- Larry Lambert at Southwestern College created this excellent overview of the Grade Center. This guide will explain everything you need to know about the Grade Center.
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- Convert a Word Document to a Blackboard Test
- BYU Idaho has created a tool that allows you to copy and paste a properly formatted Word document into their program. Their program then generates a text file that can be uploaded into the Blackboard Pool Manager. Thanks BYU Idaho!
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- Make SafeAssign Available
- The SafeAssign tool has been made "Not Available" by default. This tutorial will show you how to make it available so you can use it in your courses.
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- SafeAssign Tutorial
- Learn how to use SafeAssign, which is a plagiarism prevention service provided by Blackboard.
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- Insert Image
- How to insert an image into the Blackboard Visual Text Box Editor (VTBE).
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- Attendance Roster Files
- There are instructions for how to use WebAdvisor to access your rosters available in the Forms Depot, under Cuyamaca Forms, listed as "Attendance Roster Files."
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- How to Submit Grades
- Step-by-step instructions for submitting intstructor grade rosters at the end of the semester.
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- WebAdvisor For Faculty - Quick Guide
- This document will assist you in logging in to WebAdvisor and the submission of necessary rosters.
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- Change Email Address in WebAdvisor
- It is very important that your email address is kept current in WebAdvisor. This email address is used by the college and your teachers to contact you with important information about your classes. Follow the steps below to verify that your email address is correct in WebAdvisor.
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- Make PDF Files
- How to install the PDF add-in for Microsoft Office 2007. This will allow you to create PDF files of your documents from Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. PDF documents can be viewed by all students without the need for them to purchase Microsoft products.
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- Add Navigation Buttons
- This tutorial will show you how to add navigation or "action" buttons to your presentation to go to specific pages.
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Accessibility Presentations and Handouts |
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- Accessibility Checklist
- Creating accessible online materials is a necessary step towards a classroom environment that supports learning for all students. This checklist identifies several of the basic steps relevant to creating accessible online materials in an educational setting; it is not a complete list to creating accessible web content. All Instructional Core Learning Materials must be accessible.
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- Introduction to Accessibility Workshops
- During Professional Development Week in 2009 - 2010, the Online Teaching and Learning Committee conducted several panels and workshops about accessibility. This website holds the PowerPoint and other material given during these presentations.
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- Cuyamaca College Online Blog
- This blog is written by Rhonda Bauerlein and will be used to provide the latest information to faculty about Blackboard, websites, and online teaching and learning.
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