Online Learning at CWU: Faculty Tutorials

last updated 08/10/2007

• Course Management Procedure
• Content: Files, Folders, Assignments and Learning Units
• Communication & Tools: Announcements, Discussion Board and Groups Pages
• Assessment & Grades: Gradebook, Assessments Manager, Performance Dashboard

Course Manangement Procedures

1.  How to Merge the Enrollments of One or More Courses (Word File)
2.  Managing the "Courses You are Teaching" View
3. Copy/Move Content Items/Folders to Another Course
4.  Blackboard Course Creation and Management
5.  Transfer Content from Your Master Course(s) to Your Course Shell(s) (Word File)
6. Transfer Content from Your Master Course(s) to Your Course Shell(s) (HTML File)
7. How to Make your Course Available/Unavilable (PDF file)
8. Learn the Features of the Blackboard Control Panel
9. Managing the Course Menu
10. Course Menu Color and Text (Word file)

Content: Files and Folders, Assignments and Learning Units

1. Adaptive Release: Basic
2. Adaptive Release (Flash Animation)
3. Adaptive Release: Advanced
4. Adding Folders to Content Areas
5. Adding Items to Content Areas
6. Building a Learning Unit (Flash Animation)
7. Copy/Move Content Items
8. Creating an Assignment
9. New! Creating an Assignment (Instructor) - (Flash Animation and Sound)
10. New! Submitting an Assignment (Student) - (Flash Animation and Sound)
11. New! Grading an Assignment (Instructor) - (Flash Animation and Sound)
12. Grading an Assignment (Word File)
13. Review Status
14. Review Status (Flash Animation)
15. Saving Files in Rich Text Format
16. New! Use SafeAssign with Blackboard (Plagiarism detection manual)
17. New! SafeAssign Tutorial (Plagiarism detection tutorial)

Communication & Tools

1. Adding an Announcement
2. Creating an Announcement (Flash Animation)
3. Using the Discussion Board for Instructors (Word File)
4. Using the Discussion Board for Your Students (Word File)
5. Discussion Board Overview (Flash Animation)
6. Discussion Board Rating and Grading Statistics (Flash Animation)
7. Discussion Board User Mgmt and Moderation (Flash Animation)
8. Creating and Managing Groups (Flash Animation)
9. Creating Student Groups
10. New! Wimba Pronto Basic Tutorial

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Assessments & Grades

1. New! Weighting Grades Quick Steps Summary of steps in Word file
2. New! Weighting Grades with Categories Method (Adobe Connect Recording)
3.  Accompanying Tutorial for Weighting Grades (Word File for Connect recording)
4. New! Total Points Method To Set Up Grade Center (Adobe Connect Recording)
5.  Accompanying Tutorial for Total Points Method (Word File for Connect recording)
6. New! Extra Credit for Total Points Method: Grade Center (Adobe Connect Recording)
7. New! Version 8 Grade Center QuickStart Guide (PDF)
8. New! Using Blackboard Version 8 Grade Center (Detailed Word File)
9. New! How to Set Up Extra Credit In the Grade Center
10. New! Drop a Grade / Exempt a Grade from Calculations
11. New! Make SEOI Available in Your Blackboard Course (Word File)
12. Assessment Completion Status (Flash Animation)
13. Creating a Test with Test Manager
14. Making a Test Available
15. Performance Dashboard (Flash Animation)

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