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For help with Blackboard,
use the help button above, or from anywhere in Miller Hall.
This button goes to a page that is aimed at students, but
some of the information may be useful for instructors. Other
detailed instructions for using the Blackboard Course management
system (version 6.0) is available on the Web from Blackboard
.
Use this checklist
to get you started building a course on the Morningside
College Blackboard course management system (Miller Hall).
This is only an overview, for more specific help please call
Bob Anderson at x5295.
- If you do not have a course and need to create one, please click on the following link to create a course or copy an existing one . If you already have a course setup, skip to Step 2.
- Log on to
the server. At the welcome screen you will find an
area where you can change your password (Personal Information)
and you will see a list of the courses available to you.
Click to enter your new course.
- When you enter a course in which you are an instructor,
The "Control Panel" gives you control over the contents,
functionality, and look of your course.
- In the control panel, goto "Course Settings" and make
adjustments to the overall functionality of your course.
- In the control panel, goto the content areas and add your
course documents. See below for details on how to upload
various file types.
- In the control panel, goto user management area and add
your students. All registered students are "existing users",
but you want to "enroll" certain students to your course.
To do this, search for the student by last name or user
name (their student number), and check them in. If you have
more than 15 students per course, the Hall Monitor can help
by batch enrolling your students--just send an electronic
list of the student numbers you want enrolled.
- In the control panel, you can also set up your online
assignments and gradebook.
- Make sure that your course is set to "Available" in the
Control Panel > Course Settings > Course Availability.
To archive a course after the term is over, you can set
it to "Unavailable" so that only you can get in.
- In class, introduce your students to the web-site. See
below for student log on information.
Student
Log On
Students
log on to Miller Hall using:
username
= student number without leading zeros
password = social security number with the dashes.
The
password may be set to the student number if the student
does not have a social security number.
If
students have trouble logging into Miller Hall, please
try to resolve the problem yourself by viewing their
usernames and changing their passwords from your control
panel under "manage users".
To
add a user to your course who is not already an existing
user (a guest lecturer for example) you can create a
new user account and enroll them into your course from
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Course Content:
When
you add documents to the "Content Area" of the Blackboard
server, you are presented with the option to either
"add folder" or "add item". Because items are displayed
in their entirety, it is usually best to put items into
folders, and to put only one item in each folder. If
your items are short (links for example) then several
items in one folder does work well.
There
are several ways to add documents (items) to your course.
The procedure favored by Blackboard is to paste plain
text into the text box provided (use the "Smart Text"
setting). This option ensures that the information loads
quickly and universally, but it is limited to simple
formatting. Heavily formatted documents (MS Word .docs
for example) can be uploaded in their original file
format with the 'attach file' option. However, download
time can be considerable and the student must have a
copy of the appropriate program (MS Word for example)
on their machine. A better way to display heavily formatted
documents is to convert the page to HTML and insert
the code into the text box provided (use the "HTML"
setting). In MS Word, you can "save as a web-page" to
generate the HTML code, then use Notepad to copy the
code for pasting into Blackboard. |
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