Carroll Community College

Blackboard Faculty Manual

This Bb manual is maintained online for Carroll faculty.  It will be expanded and continually updated.  Please contact Kay Shattuck kshattuck@carrollcc.edu with suggestions for improvement, with areas that you would like to see included, and with Bb tips and instructions that you are willing to share with your Carroll peers.

Essential Information

• Introduction
• Essential information about Blackboard (Bb) at Carroll
• Overview of Basic Features

Basic steps to get your course site ready

The control panel - The behind-the-scenes place where you, as the instructor, make important Bb features available and where you add content for student view. 

Communications and Interactions

• Sending email to course users
• Using the discussion board
• Setting up Groups
• Setting up a group discussion board
• Setting up the student homepage function (Under construction:  Please check back later)

Interactive Assignments

• The Digital Drop Box
• The "Assignment" feature

Assessments 

• The grade book  

Testing

• Testing - 4 steps are involved in creating tests
  • Step 1: Create the pool (optional)
  • Step 2: Create the test
  • Step 3: Add a Link to the Test in the Content Area 
  • Step 4: Make the Test Available for Students

Other Blackboard Features and Tips

• Accessing your course from a student's perspective (Under construction:  Please check back later)
• Loading a course cartridge
• Exporting a Course
• Archiving a Course
• Copying a Course or Part of a Course
• Importing a course
• Course Statistics
• Shrinking PowerPoint files for easy viewing within Bb:  Impatica (Under construction:  Please check back later)