Blackboard Workshops for Instructors:

Overview of Blackboard

This 1.5 hour workshop is intended to give you an overview of Blackboard and its capabilities. Topics include:

• What you can do with Blackboard
• Requesting a Blackboard course site
• Features and tools to help you manage your course
  • content
  • communication
  • collaboration
  • assessment & assignments
  • grades
• Enrolling students and adding TAs
  
  Dates & Times Offered:
  August 16, 9-10:30am
  August 19, 11:00am-12:30pm
  August 25, 9-10:30am
  August 26, 1-2:30pm
  Location: Cyert Hall, Room A70
  
  To register, please send email to: bb-help@andrew.cmu.edu
  
  

Working with Surveys, Assessments, Assignments and the Gradebook

This 1.5 hour workshop is intended to walk through planning and designing your Blackboard course. Topics include:

• Constructing Surveys and Assessments in Blackboard
• Options for deploying
• Reviewing results
• Managing Homework Assignments
• Managing grades with the Online Gradebook: entering and managing grades for online quizzes, in-class quizzes and exams, and homework; exporting/importing a spreadsheet of the gradebook
  
  Dates & Times Offered:
  August 16, 11:00am-12:30pm
  August 19, 9-10:30am
  August 25, 11:00am-12:30pm
  August 26, 3-4:30pm
  Location: Cyert Hall, Room A70
  
  To register, please send email to: bb-help@andrew.cmu.edu
  
  

Managing your Blackboard Course Content

This 1.5 hour workshop will explore strategies for arranging, archiving and redeploying your Blackboard content in subsequent terms. Topics will include:

• Segmenting your content into manageable units
• Archiving the course
• Restoring units into a future course
• Copying content between courses
  
  Dates & Times Offered:
  September 1, 9-10:30am
  September 1, 3:30-5:00pm
  Location: Cyert Hall, Room A70
  
  To register, please send email to: bb-help@andrew.cmu.edu