Blackboard Learn “How To” Videos and Documentation

The following screencast videos were created by the NCCC Online Learning department and will help while you make this transition to teaching online. If you need help, please don’t hesitate to email us at onlinelearning@niagaracc.suny.edu

Set up Blackboard Learn Notifications (Recording 5 min)

How to organize and hide courses in your  BB Learn Course List

Blackboard at NCCC

• How to login and navigate Blackboard Learn (9 min)

MyNCCC Page and Personal Setting

• How to Add, Delete, and Customize the Modules (MyNCCC Page)
• Adjusting personal information (Customizing Notification Settings)
• My Blackboard Profile (Video) or Bb Help Page

Course Management

• “Edit Mode” and Basic Screen Features
• Student Preview (Video)
• Adding Content:
  • Adding files, videos, pages, items, etc. (Full video)
    • How to Upload a File
    • Creating a PDF file (Recommended File Format/ Visible on Mobile Devices)
    • How to Build a Blank Page or Item and What is the Difference
    • How to Embed a YouTube Video
    • Deleting, moving, and copying content
    • Using the “NEW” (2021) Content Editor
    • Add Folders
• Editing the course menu
  • Overview of the course menu

Copying Course Content/Backing Up Your Bb Course

• How to backup your Blackboard course – Videos (Recommend doing this before copying to new semester and regularly throughout the semester)
• How to backup your Blackboard course – Instructions
• How to copy course content from one course into another at the start of  the new semester in Blackboard – Video (This video shows the “Course Copy” tool in Blackboard – Make sure you are in the course you want to copy to start these steps)
• How to copy course content from one course into another – Instructions

Date Management

• How to use the date management tool (video)
• Blackboard Help on date management

Assignments

• Blackboard Help: How to Create and Edit an Assignment
• Video on How to Create an Assignment
• Documentation on Inline Grading For Assignments (Video)
• How to create a SafeAssign in Blackboard

Help for Students: Provide This Video to Students for Submitting An Assignment

Tests

• Blackboard Help: Tests, Surveys, and Pools
• Blackboard Help Video: Creating a Test
• How to View a students test after it is taken & how to run a test analysis
• How to copy a test from one course and copy into another course
  • Written instructions
• How do you add extra time for one student on a timed test?
• Blackboard Help: Reusing Questions
• How do I deploy a test within my content
• How do I edit points for test questions
• How to create a test pool and how to build a test pulling from this pool
• How to print a test in Blackboard (PDF Doc)
• How to create question sets and random blocks (By OIT @ PUC)
• How students can view test results after taking a test

Discussions

• Creating Discussions
• Directions for students – How to Participate in a Discussion
• Collecting discussion posts for printing
• Adding a Rubric to a discussion (Video)
• Grading using a Rubric (Video
• Discussion Board Analytics

Blogs in Bb

• Blackboard Help: Working with Blogs
• Directions for students (video)

Journals in Bb

• Blackboard Help: Working with Journals
• Video on using Journals

Blackboard Learn Grade Center

• What are Grading Schemas 
• How download your grades in Blackboard to Print or work offline (Backs Up Your Grade Center)
• How to upload grades that were previously downloaded from Blackboard Grade Center
• How to View, Grade or Clear Multiple Assignment Attempts
• Setting Up Categories and Updating Columns in the Grade Center
• Managing Your Grade Center View (e.g., hiding columns, rearranging, etc)
• Grading using the Blackboard Grading App
• Cleaning the extra columns in the Grade Center after copying a course into the new semester.
• How students view their grades in Blackboard

Blackboard Learn Grade Center – Smart Views

• Managing Smart View in Your Grade Center/Creating a Smart View for SLO
• Building a Smart View to Separate Sections in a Merged Course
• Blackboard Help – Smart Views

BB Learn Content Collection

• Organize and Manage the Content Collection

How to Communicate with Your Students

• Video on how to send email
• Video on how to post an announcement

How to Customize Your Course

• How to customize the Bb menu and the Home Page

Reports in Blackboard

• Blackboard Help: Overview of Reports in Bb
• To Run a Report:

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Evaluation–>Course Reports–>Choose a Report—> Point to the arrow to the right of the report name–> Select Run–> set your dates & Select student (if apply)
–> Submit

Course Activity Overview – This report provides a chart showing each individual student activity.  If you click on one of the students bar within the chart it will run the “Student Overview for Single Course” for that selected Student.

Student Overview for Single Course – This report provides the activity of one student based on where they clicked in the course.  It is very important to make sure “Tracking” is turned on for each piece of content in the course so the report is accurate.

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Taking Attendance in On Campus Classes

• How to Use Blackboard Attendance (Video & Bb Help)
• Instructions on How to Take Attendance in Starfish

Groups in Blackboard

• Overview of Groups
• How to Create a Group
• Video on How to Create a Group

Rubrics in Blackboard

• Blackboard Help: How to Create Rubrics
• How to Create Rubric in Blackboard (Video)
• How to pull in a Rubric Shared by the Institution (Video)
• Adding a Rubric to a discussion (Video)
• Grading using a Rubric (Video)
• Blackboard Help: Grade Using a Rubric
• Value Rubrics: Association of American Colleges & Universities