Category Archives: For Faculty

Fixing incorrect menu colors from the December 2016 update

The Blackboard update applied in late December contained a bug which may alter the colors of course menus making them difficult to read. If one or more of your courses is incorrectly showing the menu in green/blue the following steps will restore the default menu colors. Note: These steps can only be performed by an instructor. If you are a student in a course affected by this glitch please contact your instructor. 1. Open the affected course. 2. Make sure...

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Course Menu, For Faculty, Issues Updated: January 9, 2017

Embedding Facebook videos

Facebook has been lauded as a new mainstream media outlet. If you find a Facebook video you’d like to share with your class, you can embed it into your Blackboard course site so your students don’t have to visit Facebook to view it. A. Getting the embed code from Facebook 1. Click the down arrow menu in the upper right of the Facebook post and choose “</> Embed.” Note: If Embed is not an option, click on the “video” or...

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Build / Add Content, Content Area, For Faculty Updated: January 4, 2017

Disabling IE Compatibility Mode

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, included in Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8, does not work properly with Blackboard if “Compatibility Mode” is enabled. When this feature is enabled you will see a message “Module information is temporarily unavailable. Please reload the page.” We strongly recommend accessing Blackboard using either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, but if you only have access to Internet Explorer and cannot install new software, the following instructions will allow you to access Blackboard using IE. 1....

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For Faculty, For Students, Issues Updated: September 27, 2016

Copy an Old Course into a New Course

If you’re re-using course materials from a previous term, the easiest way to get the content and activities from an old course into a new one is to copy the course. To copy a course, go into the old course (the one with the materials you want to copy), and click the PACKAGES & UTILITIES heading in the Control Panel menu. Follow these steps to copy an old course into a new course:  1. Under the Packages and Utilities heading,...

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Control Panel, Packages and Utilities, Uncategorized , , , , , Updated: September 13, 2016

Create and Edit Tests

Assessment helps faculty members evaluate student understanding of course material.  Tests in particular can provide a way of measuring student performance, and enhance the overall effectiveness of your course.  The Assessment section of your Blackboard course site in the Content area allows you to create three different types of student assessment: Test, Surveys, and Assignments. This tutorial will focus on the basics of test creation.  While tests are held in a Test Manager portion of your course site, individual tests...

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Build / Add Content, Create Assessment, Tests Surveys & Pools , , , , , , Updated: September 12, 2016
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