Tag Archives: availability

Standard Options

The Standard Options are the same on pretty much everything you add to Blackboard. If you’d like to make the content available to students, whether immediately or at a later date, click select YES on the “Permit Users to View this Content” line. If you’d like users to view the content at a set time in the future, but not immediately, you should select YES on the “Permit Users to View” line, then check the DISPLAY AFTER box and enter...

Make Content Available

If you have unavailable content added to your course that you’d like to make available, click the options button to the right of the item’s name. Then choose EDIT from the options list. Scroll down the page until you reach the STANDARD OPTIONS heading. On the line labeled “Permit Users to View this Content” choose YES. (If you need to make the content unavailable, select NO instead). Then click SUBMIT at the top or bottom of the page. If YES...

IDS Updates: Webinars, Wimba, Academic Integrity, Rubrics

Stay sharp Whether you’re heading out or staying on campus, keep your online education skill up to snuff this summer with archived webinars from our partners. UDM is a member of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group. The TLT has a deep archive of webinars on a huge variety of topics related to effective use of technology in teaching. Sample topics include active teaching/learning activities, using apps, social networking, copyright, strategies getting resistant students engaged in learning, and much, much...

Introducing Blackboard 9

Next fall, with the start of the 2010-2011 academic year, UDM will be upgrading to the latest version of Blackboard. This update will bring with it significant changes to how you set up and maintain your online course sites.  In addition to providing some new course tools — such as journals and blogs — this upgrade streamlines course management, letting you access Blackboard’s features more quickly. You will still be able to use archive files created in the current version...