GA TA:Managing Course Material

Managing Course Material: Overview for GAs & TAs

Blackboard offers a variety of tools to post content for your students
Some of the most popular choices are below:

Getting Started with Managing Course Material

• Uploading Files
• Adding Content Areas - store content off of main menu
• Using Student Preview

Tools for the Task

• Items (versatile object to share content, links, attachments, etc. with students)
• Adding Mashups (like YouTube Videos, Slideshare, Flickr)
• Learning Modules, (used to organize and sequence materials for students)

Specialized Topic for Managing Course Material: Adaptive Release

• Examples of using Adaptive Release
• Flexibililty of Adpative Release by using two types of Rules
• FAQs for Adaptive Release

Ask for Help

• Submit a Blackboard Support Request
• How do I know if my browser is the problem?
• Blackboard Downtime
• Why is blackboard down?

FAQ - Managing Course Material

• How do I upload files?

Training and Advanced Topics

• Face-to-Face Training Options
• Online Self-Paced Courses
• Controlled Release of Content - e.g. to a specific group

A-Z Index for Managing Course Materials

• Instructor's Quick Start Guide- printable pdf file
• Adaptive Release
• Announcements
• Assignments - Blackboard help page
• Calendar
• Communication Tools
• Contacts
• Content Editor
• Course Availability

• Course Content
• Course Customization
• Course Messages
• Exporting and Importing between Courses (video 7:54)
• Files
• File Attachments
• Glossary
• Items (versatile object to share content, links, attachments, etc. with students)

• Learning Modules, (used to organize and sequence materials for students)
• Mashups (like YouTube Videos, Slideshare, Flickr)
• Roles for Users
• Roster
• Rubrics-Blackboard Help Pages
• Student Preview Tool

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