Use the Blackboard tools and areas to instruct your students and manage your courses.

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Pinned Article Slido Reference Guide

[Faculty] Slido is an easy-to-use Q&A and polling platform for live, remote, or hybrid meetings; events; classes, and webinars. Event planners can set up a Slido event in less than a minute; all the participants need to join the conversation is a simple event code or link.

Add Files from Your OneDrive to Your Blackboard Ultra Course

[Faculty] Integration for OneDrive is available in Blackboard Ultra. The webpage linked below describes how to add files from OneDrive to your Course Content area, Learning Modules and Folders.

Add LinkedIn Learning to Blackboard

[Faculty] Add a LinkedIn Learning video to your Blackboard course site.

Batch Edit (Blackboard)

The article provides information regarding the Batch Edit feature instructors can use to make common setting updates across all content, such as visibility and due dates.

Blackboard Grading Guide

[Faculty] This guide introduces the Overall Grade in the Blackboard Ultra Gradebook and how it is used to provide a weighted grade total.

Blackboard Integrations

[Faculty & Staff] This is a list of available Blackboard Integrations that Faculty can use when creating their courses.

Configuring your Webex Course through Blackboard

[Faculty] Integrate Webex into your Blackboard course.

Configuring your Zoom Course through Blackboard

[Faculty] Integrate Zoom Meetings into your Blackboard course.

Copy a Video from an Assignment Folder to the Parent Course in Panopto

[Faculty] Assignment folders created within a course folder allow students to submit their videos. However, such videos are visible only to the student and the instructor. Make a submitted video visible to the entire course list by copying the video from the assignment folder to the main course folder.

Copy Blackboard Ultra Courses

[Faculty] Instructors, save time by copying course content (individual items or entire folders) within the Blackboard Ultra courses you're teaching.

Copy Content (Blackboard)

[Faculty] The article helps build the list of content to copy from another course.

Copying Course Videos in Panopto

[Faculty & Staff] This article shows copying Course Videos in Panopto

Create Content (Blackboard)

The article provides information regarding creating and adding content to courses on Blackboard and also provides an instructional video on adding content.

Discussion Boards (Blackboard)

The article provides information and instructions regarding creating and managing discussion boards on Blackboard.

Edit Panopto Videos from Blackboard

[Students & Faculty] Edit videos from Blackboard using Panopto editing tools.

Embed a Video in the Blackboard Content Stream

[Faculty] Embed a Panopto video in Blackboard.

Export your course (Blackboard)

[Faculty] This article allows you to export and archive your course content.

How to Create a Video Assignment in Blackboard Ultra

[Faculty] Learn how to create a student video assignment in a Blackboard Ultra course.

Import Course Content (Blackboard)

[Faculty] This article shows you to import a course package from a previous course or from another instructor.

Journals (Blackboard)

The article provides steps to add journal spaces/assignments for various courses on Blackboard.

Link a Panopto Folder to a Blackboard Course

[Faculty] Integrate a Panopto folder into Blackboard.

Make Your Blackboard Course Available for Students

[Faculty] Blackboard courses are set to private by default. Non-instructors cannot access private courses. Non-instructors can access completed courses but cannot participate in graded items.

Preview Your Blackboard Course as a Student

[Faculty] Review the course content from a student's perspective with Student Preview.

Submit an Assignment in a Blackboard Ultra Course

[Students and Faculty] The article points to the official Blackboard documentation for submitting assignments.

Taking a Test in Blackboard Ultra

[Students and Faculty] The linked webpage provides helpful advice for students on Blackboard Ultra tests, including accessing tests, getting ready to start tests, taking tests, understanding timed tests and accessing grades and feedback.

Taking Attendance

[Faculty] How to set up and take attendance using the Qwickly Attendance tool.

Test, Pools and Surveys (Blackboard)

The article provides a list of resources on creating tests and surveys, grading tests and surveys, and tracking student progress.

Track Student Performance in Blackboard

[Faculty] View how active your students are in your course materials using this linked Course Activity Related to Grades report (learning analytics).

VoiceThread (Blackboard)

[Faculty] The article helps you to create a VoiceThread of your own to submit, comment on a VoiceThread you’ve created, or simply watch a VoiceThread from start to finish.