Category: Blackboard For Instructors

Instructors can enable and disable alternative formats for individual content items. To disable alternative formats for a content item, please ...

Alternative formats are provided by Ally once enabled on your Blackboard course. They transform your course files into different formats ...

File formats that work best for you are available when Ally is enabled on your course. Check Blackboard Ally Help ...

Here are some suggestions on how to introduce Ally to your students: Send them an announcement at the beginning of ...

The course accessibility report can help you plan and fix your course content. Check Blackboard Ally help document about Course ...

Ally provides descriptions to simple fixes to some common accessibility scenarios that you may find in your digital content. View ...

Blackboard Ally provides a quick-start reference to creating more accessible course content to help you create a more accessible course ...

Blackboard Ally provides “Instructor Package: Resources and Support” to help instructors become more familiar with Ally and produce more inclusive ...

The Learning Management Systems Team at the office of Digital Transformation is planning to pilot Blackboard Ally during Spring 2021 ...

1. Under Course Management, click on Course Tools and choose “Tests, Surveys, and Pools” then click on Pools. 2. On ...

To download all students answers of a test in your course, please follow these steps: 1. Under Course Management, expand Grade Center and ...

1. Click on the test contextual menu (the grey arrow next to the test’s name) and click on Edit the ...

1. Click on the test contextual menu (the gray arrow) and click on Edit the Test Options: 2. At the ...

Please follow the below steps to check the student test access logs: 1- From the left-side menu, under “Course Management”, ...

If a student was unable to submit the test, but has completed all the questions, you can submit their attempt ...

Although Blackboard scores many question types such as Multiple Choice Question, you must grade some questions manually such as Essays, ...

If you haven’t already deployed or made the test available for your students, you will get a chance to add ...

If a student experiences a techincial issue while taking the test or requires an addtional attempt, you can clear their ...

On the Test Canvas page, next to each question you will find the Points assigned to the question. Type the ...

Access the course where you have created your test. Under Course Tools choose Tests, Pools and Surveys and choose Tests ...

Go to the content area in your course where you would like to add the test to. Click on the ...

Random Blocks are used to give each student a different set of questions in the same test. A subset of ...

To convert a question in your exam to be bonus / extra credit question: 1. From Course Tools, select Tests, ...

1.Under Course Management, click on Course Tools and then choose Rubrics. 2.Click Create Rubric. Provide a name for the Rubric, ...

Go the Tests list page and click on the grey chevron next to the test you wish to add questions ...

1. Under Course Management, click on Course Tools and choose “Tests, Surveys, and Pools” then click on Tests. 2. On ...

1. Under Course Management, expand Grade Center and click on Full Grade Center. 2. Scroll to the column you wish ...

A weighted column can be created in the Grade Center that generates a grade based on the result of selected ...

To change the grading schema of an assignment to Pass or Fail, you need to first create the new schema. ...

To download all students submissions of an assignment in your course, please follow these steps: 1. Under Course Management, expand ...

Under Course Management, click on Grade Center – Needs Grading. A page with all the students’ submissions will appear (see ...

The Blackboard Grade Center is similar to a spreadsheet where each row represents a student in your course and each ...

Log into your Blackboard course, and go to the content area you would like to add the assigment to.  At ...

When you copy course content including Discussion Board, all discussion forums, threads, and posts are copied. The authors of the posts ...

As you are reviewing the postings on a discussion board, you may want to review a series of postings, or ...

Managing Postings: When you manage a forum, you can grant discussion board roles (Participant, Builder, Manager, etc.) to members of ...

Within a forum, discussions can be organized into ‘threads’.  As the discussion manager, you will want to create threads with ...

Your discussion board can include multiple forums, so that your discussion topics can be organized and focused. To add a ...

To add a discussion board to the Blackboard Course Menu: Click the Discussions link on the Course Menu. Click Create ...

Create and edit sessions Instructors can create collaborate sessions for students: 1. From Course Management, expand Course Tools, and click ...

Microsoft Teams is now integrated with Blackboard. To enable it for students, please do the following: 1. Click on Tools ...

In the left panel menu click on Groups and then choose Create. From the Group Set list, choose Self-Enroll, Random ...

In the left panel menu click on Groups and then choose Create. From the Single Group list, choose Self-Enroll or ...

There are 3 ways that you can choose from to enroll students in groups: Manual Enroll: allows you to manually ...

This article provides instructions on how to troubleshoot Audio and Video issues in a Collaborate Ultra session. Issues may include: ...

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a web conferencing tool that allows faculty to synchronously communicate online with students anywhere in the world. Collaborate Ultra is ...

System Requirements: Make sure your device operating system is at least: iOS 11+ Android 6+ Use these steps to download ...

From the courses page, you can access all your courses. Courses are listed in alphabetical order and grouped by term ...

You can add a zoom link for your class from within your Blackboard course: PS. Please make sure that your ...

To access the attendance tool on Blackboard, Within your Blackboard course, navigate to the Course Management area, and then click ...