Faculty Resources
Most of the tutorials on this page have been updated to Blackboard 9
and can be found at
http://www.gcccd.edu/online/faculty/default.html.
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- Teaching with Blackboard Online Course
- This web page will introduce you to the self-paced online course called Teaching with Blackboard. You can work through this course at any time. You don't have to take the whole course; you can just review the parts that interest you.
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- Blackboard Container Preparation
- This web page explains all the things you need to do to get started with preparing a container in Blackboard for your courses.
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- Request a Development Container
- This tutorial will show faculty how to request a container for course development purposes.
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- Copy a Blackboard Container
- This tutorial will show you how to copy one Blackboard container to another. This can be useful at the beginning of the semester when you copy your old Blackboard class information into the new section container.
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- Merge Courses
- If you teach multiple sections of the same exact course, there is a merge tool available to merge the students from these sections into one course. You would then teach your course out of just the one merged container. The merge tool links the enrollments from the section containers that you merge into the one container that you choose to teach from.
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- Import Blackboard
Model Template
- The Blackboard Template for Cuyamaca College provides a model of how to organize a course for teaching with Blackboard. It has many resources to help you get started preparing a course in Blackboard.
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- Recycle (Erase) a Blackboard Container
- These steps will show you how to wipe a container clean, leaving no content or menu items in it, so that you can use it for another class or project. This will erase everything in the container.
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- How to Log In to Blackboard
- This tutorial will show students how to log in to Blackboard to access their online class material.
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- How to Change Your email Address in Blackboard
- As of June, 2009, changes you make to your email address in Blackboard will be replaced every night by the email address you have listed in WebAdvisor. So please change your email address in WebAdvisor by following these
steps.
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- Course Availability
- Students cannot see your course until you make it available. This tutorial will show you how to make it available.
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- Hide or
Show Courses on the Welcome Page
- Now that Snapshot is generating course containers for you every semester, you may find that there are courses showing on your Blackboard Welcome Page that you don't need this semester. Blackboard provides a way to hide or show only the courses you want. This video will show you how.
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- Submitting an Assignment
- This video will show the process by which a student will submit an assignment. Faculty can link to this video from their courses to provide instructions for students.
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- Archive Your Course
- An archive is a complete backup of your course. It includes the students, all their work, all discussions, course statistics, grades, etc. These archives are meant to be used as backups for your course, not for transferring your content from one container to another.
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- Grade Center Quick Start Guide
- This is a document created
by Blackboard to show the new features in the Grade
Center released with version 9.1
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- SafeAssign
Manual
- Learn how to use SafeAssign, which is a plagiarism prevention service provided by Blackboard.
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- Insert Image
- How to insert an image into the Blackboard Visual Text Box Editor (VTBE).
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- Attendance Roster Files
- There are instructions for how to use WebAdvisor to access your rosters available in the Forms Depot, under Cuyamaca Forms, listed as "Attendance Roster Files."
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- How to Submit Grades
- Step-by-step instructions for submitting intstructor grade rosters at the end of the semester.
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- WebAdvisor For Faculty - Quick Guide
- This document will assist you in logging in to WebAdvisor and the submission of necessary rosters.
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- Change Email Address in WebAdvisor
- It is very important that your email address is kept current in WebAdvisor. This email address is used by the college and your teachers to contact you with important information about your classes. Follow the steps below to verify that your email address is correct in WebAdvisor.
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- Make PDF Files in Office 2007
- How to install the PDF add-in for Microsoft Office 2007. This will allow you to create PDF files of your documents from Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. PDF documents can be viewed by all students without the need for them to purchase Microsoft products.
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- Add Navigation Buttons
- This tutorial will show you how to add navigation or "action" buttons to your presentation to go to specific pages.
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Accessibility Presentations and Handouts |
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- Accessibility Checklist
- Creating accessible online materials is a necessary step towards a classroom environment that supports learning for all students. This checklist identifies several of the basic steps relevant to creating accessible online materials in an educational setting; it is not a complete list to creating accessible web content. All Instructional Core Learning Materials must be accessible.
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- Accessibility Workshops
- During Professional Development Week, the Online Teaching and Learning Committee conducts workshops about accessibility. This website holds the PowerPoint and other material given during these presentations.
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- Cuyamaca College Online Blog
- This blog is written by Rhonda Bauerlein and will be used to provide the latest information to faculty about Blackboard, websites, and online teaching and learning.
Please subscribe by entering your email address in
the email Subscription form.
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