Blackboard – Academic Integrity You can provide students with this 1-question “test” in Blackboard as a reminder to review the University’s Code of Academic...
Blackboard – Accommodations ADA Providing Accommodations in Blackboard UVM is committed to ensuring all students have access to its academic programs. The office of Student...
Blackboard – Adaptive Release Adaptive release allows you to restrict course content such as tests and readings from students until after they have met...
Blackboard – Add Online Evaluation Link to the Course Menu Most instructors whose courses are using online evaluations delivered via Explorance Blue in Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 will not...
Blackboard – Add/Remove TA, Course Builder, Student With Incomplete Instructors can add TAs, Course Builders, and Students who have an Incomplete status to their courses in Bb. This is...
Blackboard – Adding Content Readings, lecture files, and other course materials are typically added to a Content Area. The Course Materials page is an...
Blackboard – Adding Images to a Course In the item’s toolbar view, click the “add image” icon with the tiny picture of mountains. Click to browse your...
Blackboard – Adding Media UVM Streaming Media is the supported platform for hosting your media and embedding it in Blackboard. It is similar to...
Blackboard – Announcements The “Announcements” tool on the home page of your Blackboard course is a handy way to communicate with your class....
Blackboard – Archive a Course Archiving backs up everything in your course and will produce a zip file that must be downloaded to complete the...
Blackboard – Assignment Tool – Grading and Feedback Student assignments automatically appear in the Grade Center when they submit them, and most file-types can be viewed and graded...
Blackboard – Assignment Tool – Setting Up The Assignment Tool allows instructors to create a “drop box” for each assignment into which students can submit their completed...
Blackboard – Attendance Many instructors use attendance data as part of their students’ overall grades. With the new Blackboard Attendance tool, you can...
Blackboard – Availability Dates For every assignment, test, and content item in Blackboard, you have the ability to control when it becomes visible and...
Blackboard – Back Up Tests How to Back Up Tests (or Surveys or Pools) These instructions describe how to back up a Blackboard test, but...
Blackboard – Backup Grade Center It’s a good idea to back up your grade center regularly over the course of a term. Further, downloading a...
Blackboard – Blog Tool A blog is a searchable list of postings displayed in reverse chronological order (most recent first). Blackboard allows you to...
Blackboard – Blogging for Students This short video by Blackboard shows students how to use the course Blog tool.
Blackboard – Copying Courses Instructors can use the Course Copy tool to copy content between two existing courses. Course content can also be effectively...
Blackboard – Course Availability Blackboard courses and enrollments are created automatically. By default, courses are unavailable (and invisible) to students when they are created. ...
Blackboard – Course Banners Course banners must be web-friendly image files, i.e, files ending in .jpg, .gif, or .png. The optimal size for a...
Blackboard – Course Calendar You can use the course calendar to provide students with dates for course related events. Course calendar events appear to...
Blackboard – Course Menu Management Adding Items to the Course Menu Clicking on the plus icon at the top of the course menu will let...
Blackboard – Course Shells What Is a Course Shell? The course shell is a starter structure for your course. This shell is based on...
Blackboard – Course Wiki Wikis A Wiki is a mini-web site you and your students can build within your course. You can think of...
Blackboard – Date Management You can use the date management feature to update content dates when you copy or restore a course from a...
Blackboard – Delegated Grading Use Caution when Implementing this Tool! Note: Enabling Delegated Grading on a column still requires that the instructor approve/reconcile each...
Blackboard – Discussions The Discussion Board allows you to conduct or augment class discussion with either the whole class together or with discrete...
Blackboard – Email and Messages Included in Blackboard’s course communication toolkit are the Email Tool and the Messages Tool. The email tool generates emails that...
Blackboard – Embed PDFs in Your Course Using iFrames iFrames display PDFs right in Blackboard Some documents (e.g., the syllabus, the course schedule, etc.) may be frequently viewed by...
Blackboard – End of Semester Checklist The end of the semester is a good time to take care of any number of housekeeping tasks regarding your...
Blackboard – File Management The Course Files area allows instructors to: Upload single or multiple files at once with an easy drag and drop...
Blackboard – Goals and Alignments Blackboard provides tools that allow instructors to align course content and activities with department and/or institutional curricular goals. For more...
Blackboard – Grade Center Topics on This Page Access The Grade Center (Grade Center) Your View of the Grade Center: Customize and Fix Some...
Blackboard – Grading Color Codes in Grade Center This Grade Center tip is especially helpful in large courses where some grading is automatic (such as quizzes) and/or TAs...
Blackboard – Grading Groups for Large Enrollment Classes If you have a large enrollment class where you’re dividing the grading up amongst more than one TA, you can...
Blackboard – Granting Extra Time on Tests If a student needs extra time or other exception for a test, follow these instructions: Go to where the test...
Blackboard – Groups Blackboard allows you to create areas in the course that provide collaborative tools to discrete groups of students. At the...
Blackboard – Guest Access You can make your course available to the world by turning on guest access and setting which menu items can...
Blackboard – Help and Support Students, faculty, and staff with questions about Blackboard may contact the UVM Tech Team. The Tech Team will refer questions...
Blackboard – Importing Courses Previously archived courses can be restored by importing them into another course. This process can be used to move content...
Blackboard – Importing Test Questions from a Word File Test generators allow you to create test questions and answers in Word, then upload them into a Blackboard Pool all...
Blackboard – Integrating Perusall Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Blackboard via LTI assignments. Perusall allows students and their instructors to collaboratively...
Blackboard – Journals The journal is designed as a private space between the instructor and a student, though at any time during the...
Blackboard – Learning Modules Folders allow you to group materials and activities together. Learning Modules also provide a way for you to group materials...
Blackboard – Manage Your Course List You can control which courses appear for you in the “My Courses” box. For example, you may wish to hide...
Blackboard – Merging Courses Every course in the course catalog has a Bb space created for it automatically, and its enrollments are regularly updated...
Blackboard – Mobile Application Blackboard offers two mobile applications – one for Instructors which allows grading and other course management features, and one geared...
Blackboard – Non-Credit and Extra Curricular Spaces UVM licenses a Bb add-on tool that allows individual colleges and organizational units to create and manage course-like “organizations” in...
Blackboard – Notifications Blackboard has added some simple modules to help you and your students keep track of activity in the course. For...
Blackboard – Piazza Piazza is a student-driven question & answer/discussion forum. This tool can be used as a form of “crowd-sourced” office hours,...
Blackboard – Publisher and LTI Tools You can connect your course to content and tools provided by textbook publishers and other educational tool providers. Vendors for...
Blackboard – Respondus Monitor (Instructors) Respondus Monitor is a video “proctoring” add-on for Respondus LockDown Browser, which is a web browser that restricts student access...
Blackboard – Respondus Quiz Building Respondus for Bb Tests What is it? If you have a multiple choice test in Word or in text format,...
Blackboard – Respondus Test Editor Respondus is a tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard....
Blackboard – Retention Center The Retention Center helps you determine how well your students are doing based on specific criteria. It allows you to...
Blackboard – Rubric Tool The Blackboard Rubric tool both allows the instructor to list evaluation criteria for an assignment and, if shared with students,...
Blackboard – Scrollbar Problem on Macs Sometimes, when working on a Mac computer, the left-right scrollbar is missing. This frequently happens with the Grade Center. This...
Blackboard – Set Avatar/Profile Picture Here’s how to add a profile picture or “avatar” that will appear next to your name in some places in...
Blackboard – Setting Course Entry Point You can control what area of the course students see when they enter it. By default, the course entry point...
Blackboard – Student Preview Student Preview provides a way for you to see your course from the standpoint of a student. You can use...
Blackboard – Supported Browsers Blackboard supports recent release channels for most major browsers. While Firefox and Chrome have often been found to work the...
Blackboard – Survey Tool Tests and Surveys Blackboard Tests and Surveys are a great way to assess the progress of your students. Faculty find...
Blackboard – Syllabus Tool Uploading a Syllabus There is a syllabus link pre-loaded in the Course Menu to an empty Content Area that you...
Blackboard – Test Tips for Instructors For Instructors Following these best practices will ensure a smooth testing experience for your students. Do not enable the Force...
Blackboard – Tests & Surveys Blackboard Tests and Surveys are set up the same way and have all the same features except that surveys are...
Blackboard – Tool Availability Blackboard is made up of a series of tools, which allow you to do certain things in your course, such...
Blackboard – Tracking Student Progress In Blackboard, there are a few ways to track students’ progress. We recommend using these as tools for compassionate and...
Blackboard – Troubleshooting Student Test-Taking or, What Can Go Wrong and What to Do About It (See table of contents on the right.) Students are...
Blackboard – Using the Group Tool for Discussion For small group discussions on Blackboard, you can use the Group tool. Here is an overview of the process: Create...
Blackboard – View Student Test Access Logs Blackboard keeps an Access Log for each student that shows their interaction with the test. The Access Log can show...
Blackboard: Helpful Links for Instructors General Resources Index of All UVM Blackboard Articles for Instructors CTL’s Teaching with Blackboard at UVM Where to Get Help...
Flipgrid for Faculty Flipgrid is a cloud-based application that allows for asynchronous video and audio discussion. Flipgrid is included in UVM’s Microsoft license...
iClicker Cloud What are iClickers? The iClicker is one brand in a classification of tools referred to as “classroom response systems” or...
iClickers iClicker is a brand of electronic polling technology that allows students to give instant feedback or answers to questions during...
Index: Blackboard Articles for Instructors Getting Started If you’re new to teaching with Blackboard, you may want to start with this webpage from the Center...
Respondus LockDown Browser (Instructors) Respondus LockDown Browser (LDB) is a web browser which restricts student access to only UVM’s Blackboard server. Unlike other web...
Screencast-O-Matic (SOM): Quick Start These are step-by-step instructions for recording a screencast with SOM. Download and install Screencast-O-Matic. Follow these instructions and then return...
TA Training Modules These modules are designed to be implemented by faculty to train their TAs (undergraduate and/or graduate). They were built and...
Yellowdig for Instructors Yellowdig is a conversation platform that can be linked from a Blackboard course to form a private class community. Yellowdig...
Zoom for Continuing Education Courses Zoom is a video conferencing software used as a virtual classroom for some University of Vermont Distance and Continuing Education...