1. Advanced Blackboard 20 November 2009 Graduate School of Social Service Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

2. Prerequisites Blackboard Knowledge: Control Panel Content Types Discussion Boards Grade Center General Knowledge Browser Navigation Email usage MyFordham (my.fordham.edu) portal login Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

3. News & Reminders Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Single Sign-on through MyFordhamportal New URL is My.Fordham.Edu Fordham.blackboard.com will be discontinued AccessITID usernames and passwords Banner ID and naming conventions 17-character: engl1101c01201010 engl 1101 c01 2010 10 Dept. Course Sec. Year Sem.

4. News & Reminders Drop Box has been deprecated Do not use! Use the Assignment Content Type instead Does not have file name restrictions Creates Grade Center column automatically Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

5. News & Reminders IDs for spring courses end in ‘201020’ 201020 courses began loading on 11/16 You must be correctly assigned to a course in Banner before it will appear your Blackboard The Blackboard staff cannot perform an action that directly contradicts the systems of record. Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

6. News & Reminders If your department changes course assignments after 11/16, you may not have access to the correct courses Call 718-817-2289 once you know Banner is correct Instructors are still responsible to reconcile Blackboard enrollments with official rosters at the end of the Drop/Add period. Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

7. News & Reminders Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Avoid unnecessary A/V Remember your students may not have broadband Use HTML (built-in editor) when possible Faster More accessible: runs anywhere Blackboard runs Not all students have Word Expensive Version issues

8. News & Reminders Do Not Copy & Paste text from Word Copy to Notepad, then to Blackboard Word copies things other than just text Incomplete Word markup can affect the display of other things on the page Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

9. News & Reminders Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Do Not Copy & Paste text directly from other websites into Blackboard Hidden Text and JavaScript can damage courses Link whenever possible Use the site’s “embed” feature if available As a last resort, copy to Notepad first, then to Blackboard. Notorious offenders: New York Times Wall Street Journal LA Times The Economist

10. Forum Subscriptions Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Allowing Subscriptions:

11. Forum Subscriptions Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Subscribing to forums/threads:

12. Grading Discussion Boards Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Creating a graded Forum:

13. Grading Discussion Boards Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Accessing the Grading Dialog:

14. Grading Discussion Boards Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Grading the Forum:

15. Grading Discussion Boards Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers The Forum in the Grade Center:

16. Saving & Printing Threads Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

17. Saving & Printing Threads Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

18. Saving & Printing Threads Most computers can save through “print” May be called different things: “Print to File” “Print to PDF” “Save as PDF” Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

19. Adaptive Release Make content available for specific time periods Timed tests Pre-loading content Make content available to specific people Groups Special needs Make content available based on other actions Actions must be completed in sequence Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers

20. Copying and Archiving Teach IT. Fordham IT Instructional Technology Academic Computing Faculty Technology Centers Course Copy Take course content and reuse it Always “Copy to Existing Course” We pre-build the course shells for you Choose only the content you want Archive Course Complete copy you save to disk Includes all grades, discussion board posts, etc. If you ever need it, bring the file to the Blackboard admins. We can restore it for you.