TLT
Further Resources
Blackboard 6 Tutorials
Modifying your course list in the My Courses module
Course Copy (moving material from one course to another).
Mid-Term Grades - How to enter them
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
The Gradebook - Weighting Grades
Safe Assignment - Tool for plagiarism checking papers submitted through Blackboard
Safe Assignment - more info
Blackboard Tips for Students - this is a sheet you can print for your students' use.
Getting Started with your Blackboard course (For Students)
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Tutorials
Here you will find handy tutorials for a number of software applications:
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