Quick Starting Guide

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If you have never used Blackboard (Bb) before

Setting up Bb from Scratch

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Communicating with Your Students

Conducting Online Class Meetings and Office Hours

• Using Bb Collaborate Ultra to conduct online meetings and office hours
• Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Troubleshoot

Collecting Assignments

• Create, review, and grade a Bb Assignment A Bb Assignment can be used to collect files in any format except for videos. Bb is not a media server and should not be used to post and collect video files. To collect video files, ask students to upload their videos to YouTube as unlisted, or to their CUNY DropBox. Then submit the link to their videos to the Bb Assignment.
• Create, review and grade a Turnitin Assignment A Turnitin Assignment is mostly useful for papers with which you want to check the originality.

Conducting Online Discussions

• Developing successful online discussions
• Create discussion forums
• Grade discussion posts

Assessment Using Bb Tests

• Creating Online Quizzes/Tests
• Question Types
• Setting Test Options to Deploy it

Conducting Online Group Work

Using Grade Center to Record Grades and Feedback