TLT Further Resources

 

Blackboard 6 Tutorials

What's New in Blackboard 7.3 Modifying your course list in the My Courses module Managing Blackboard Enrollment The Control Panel Copying an Old Course into a New One Course Copy (moving material from one course to another). Creating an Announcement* Mid-Term Grades - How to enter them Creating a Test Test Times Out - Setting up a test so the student's Internet Service Provider does not time out the Internet and lose connection to Blackboard. (Un)Check All - This allow you to check or uncheck check boxes when adding questions to a test from a test pool.  Be sure to use the first link (the one David calls (Un)Check All).  The link for how to use a Bookmarklet  is broken.  Use this one instead!  It will tell you what to do if you have never used one before.  Thanks to David Carter-Tod from the System Office for this solution. Setting up a test so a student cannot print or copy it from Blackboard Using Blackboard to Track Student Survey Response Quick test question design for BB6 Creating a Discussion Forum Creating a Learning Unit* More About Learning Units Creating an Assignment The Early Warning System Uploading Files to Blackboard The Gradebook The Gradebook - Weighting Grades Safe Assignment - Tool for plagiarism checking papers submitted through Blackboard Safe Assignment - more info Adaptive Release Blackboard Tips for Students - this is a sheet you can print for your students' use. Getting Started with your Blackboard course (For Students) The TEACH act and Blackboard material Blackboard Help Site * Items indicated with the * symbol are animated viewlets and may require use of the Macromedia Flash Player.  Click here to install if the viewlet won't run for you.

Tutorials

Here you will find handy tutorials for a number of software applications: FrontPage 2003 Tutorial Tutorial for the PeopleSoft Student Information System HTML Tutorials

 

Viewers - These little applications allow students who do not have the software for MS Word or PowerPoint on their computers view these programs.  They will not be able to write to them: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en   (Word viewer and Instructions for install) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en (PowerPoint Viewer and instructions)

 

Internet Resources for Teaching, Learning and Technology

General http://ils.unc.edu/disted/cmi/final2.html  Putting courses online: theory and practice http://www.syllabus.com/  Syllabus online http://www.aln.org/index.htm  The Asynchronous Learning Network web http://www.so.cc.va.us/NewHorizons/index.htm  New Horizons Homepage http://node.on.ca/networking/about.html  The online journal Networking http://www.aace.org/  Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education  http://chronicle.com/  Chronicle of Higher Education http://www.tltgroup.org/  The homepage of the TLT group http://www.aahe.org/  American Association for Higher Education http://www.campuscomputing.net/  The Campus Computing Project http://www.educause.edu/  Educause Website http://www.league.org/  The League for Innovation in the Community College http://www.league.org/leaguetlc/index.htm  The LICC's Technology and Learning Community http://www.ntlf.com/ The National Teaching and Learning Forum

Online communication http://www2.ncsu.edu/cc/edu/talks/webconf.html  Conferencing on the World Wide Web http://www.indiana.edu/~ecopts/ectips.html  Effectively Using Electronic Conferencing

The World Wide Web in education http://courses.ncsu.edu:8020/services/best/ - Project 25 Best Sites for Course Development http://www2.ncsu.edu/cc/pub/teachtools/menu.html  Tools for teachers: Basic course site/Web page code generators http://www.center.iupui.edu/syllabus_construction.html  Syllabus construction information http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/  Teaching and Learning on the Web http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/edtech/testing.html  Web-Based Testing and Student Assessment