Blackboard Videos for Instructors

Sit back, relax, and see and hear how to use your course web sites at the Blackboard system at the University of Miami.

Getting Started

• What is Blackboard?
• How do I log in?
• What is my username?
• How do I reset my password if I can't get in?
• How do I register my preferred e-mail address?

Using Blackboard

• How do I put my syllabus on my course web site?
• How do I modify a document on the course site?
• How do I add a student to my course?
• How do I add an assistant to my course?
• How do I copy an old site into a new site?
• How do I get multiple sites merged into one site?
• How do I see who is in my course site?
• How do I send an e-mail to my class?
• How do I collapse the course menu bar so that I can see more of the content?
• How do I remove and add menu items?
• How do I turn off the WYSIWYG HTML editor?
• What can I put into a content area?
• How do I put a folder full of documents into my site? (document package)
• How do I create an Assignment in Blackboard?
• What is SafeAssignment?
• How do I create a SafeAssignment?
• How do I review a SafeAssignment Report?
• How do I create a banner?
• How do I upload a banner?
• How do I create the registration form for TurningPoint clickers?
  
• How do I gather the participant lists for Turning Point?
  

Longer Training Sessions

• How do I create, publish, and evaluate assessments? (45 minutes)
• How do I use the Blackboard gradebook? (56 minutes)
• What are the Blackboard collaboration tools and how to they work? (32 minutes)
• How can I have Paperless Papers, using the assignment tool to collect, grade, and return papers on-line? (45 minutes)

Using other Technology

• Spybot Demonstration - How do you run Spybot Search and Destroy? (Sbybot is a free program, available from www.safer-networking.org, that removes "spyware" from your computer..)
• Windows Update - How do you make sure necessary patches are applied to the Windows operating system?
• Using Microsoft Photo Editor - How do you crop and resize (reduce) a photograph using Microsoft Photo Editor? Photos that are to be used on the web or in Office products such as Word or PowerPoint should be edited before they are inserted. Use Photo Editor to do this. If you have Microsoft Office, but don't see Microsoft Photo Editer, watch the video on Installing Microsoft Photo Editor.

Notes

• Looking for some other video to help you use Blackboard and unable to find it? Fill out the on-line form at the www.snurl.com/newbbvideo page to suggest a video that you would like us to create.
• In order to view these videos you will need a recent version of Macromedia Flash or Macromedia Shockwave. It is available from www.macromedia.com, Downloads.
• People using AOL dial-up services are encouraged to minimize the AOL browser, open a full copy of Internet Explorer, and watch the video demonstrations from IE. This should improve the viewing experience.