Minor change when changing roles in Blackboard Site
Recently, there’s been a minor change in the screen where an instructor can change a person’s role to teaching assistant or course builder. The steps for adding a TA to …
How To: Using Blackboard to Foster Collaboration Across Classes
Elisabeth Benfey, a lecturing fellow, and Michael Malone, a professor of the practice, both in Theater Studies wanted to collaborate by sharing one common Blackboard site accessible by the students …
See what students see: enroll in a sample Blackboard site
Ever wondered what students see when they log onto your Blackboard course? Ever asked yourself what Blackboard can do besides letting you upload your syllabus? We have constructed a sample …
Blackboard helps with semester transition
Blackboard can help you report final grades to Duke, and reuse your teaching materials in a new course. Tip 1: Export official grades from Blackboard to Duke University’s STORM system …
Exploring alternatives to Blackboard
The eLearning Roadmap group at Duke is examining Duke’s needs, getting input from faculty and students, and coming up with principles to make a recommendation for Duke’s next generation Learning …
Spring 2010 Blackboard Course sites created
Over 2300 Blackboard course sites have been automatically created for Spring 2010, based on data from STORM (Peoplesoft) . Certain course types, such as Independent Study and Tutorial, do not …
Five Blackboard tips for managing grades more easily
1. DOWN ARROWS Blackboard 8 introduced new “contextual menus” – the down-arrows icon on the Grade Center. Don’t be afraid to click through some of these icons. You will discover …
Help Duke develop its roadmap for elearning
In 2009-10, Duke’s elearning Roadmap Committee is actively gathering input from Duke instructors and students about tools they use for teaching and learning. The Committee will assess the needs of …
Bb Tip: Catch up with your reading on the Blackboard Discussion Board
Do you find it is tedious to read a large number of discussion threads, needing multiple clicks to read each one, reply, and read more? Let us introduce you to …
Library Guide for your course
Guest post by Emily Daly, Instruction and Outreach Librarian If you use Blackboard at Duke, you may have noticed an addition to your course site’s menu this past spring. The …