Saturday, September 28, 2024

Moved Away from Blackboard

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Along with many other institutions, we moved on from Blackboard to Canvas. This blog is now just an archive of outdated previous tips for Bl...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

How to Empty your Browser Cache

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To fix a problem with Blackboard, you may need to empty your browser cache. Here are instructions for various browsers: Google Chrome ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

How to download your roster from Blackboard

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To download your the list of students in your Blackboard course: 1.   Go to Grade Center > Full Grade Center 2. Click the...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Letter Grades in the Blackboard Grade Center

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Blackboard can display grades as numbers, percentages, text, and letters according to a customizable grading schema. Internally, Blackboar...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

How to Access Survey Results in Blackboard

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You can access the Survey results by using the drop-down in the header row of the column that represents the survey in the Gradebook. I...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

How to Add a Librarian to your Blackboard Course

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On the Northeastern Blackboard instance, it is now possible to add a librarian to your course to assist with review or editing of your cours...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

How to Post a Cloud File Link in Blackboard from OneDrive

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The best way make a large file available to your students in Blackboard is to upload it to a cloud service such as OneDrive and then post a...

Send Email to Multiple Courses at Once, and Post Content to Multiple Courses at Once in Blackboard

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Instructors: Do you want to post content to several of your course sections at once in Blackboard? Would you like to send an email mess...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Fixing Cookie Settings In Your Browser for Blackboard

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Incorrect settings in your browser can cause a number of problems in Blackboard, not limited to: - Blackboard asking you to log in again ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

How to Create a "Voice Board" in your Blackboard Course

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A " Voice Board " is a voice-based threaded discussion that you can create in your Blackboard course. Here is a video showing ho...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Have Students Upload Videos for an Assignment

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Students can submit videos in response to an Assignment that you have posted in Blackboard. Here are instructions for students for how to...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Blackboard IM isn't listing all of my classes

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Blackboard IM is an Instant Messaging client from Blackboard that lists the classes you are enrolled in and lets you chat with your classma...
Monday, January 05, 2015

How to Embed a Tegrity Video in Blackboard

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You can embed a Tegrity recording in a small player in any Content Area in your Blackboard course. Here's how: 1.  Access the Teg...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Columns are missing in the Grade Center and/or you Can't Scroll

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If you created a column in the Grade Center of Blackboard, and can't find it, it may be hiding because of your browser zoom settings or ...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

How to Sync your Blackboard Calendar to your Outlook Web Mail / Office365 Calendar

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You can subscribe to your Blackboard calendar from within Office 365 / Outlook Web Mail.  Below is a video that shows how.  Scroll down for ...

How to Sync your Blackboard Calendar to your Google Calendar

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You can subscribe to your Blackboard calendar from within Google Calendar.  Below is a video that shows how.  Scroll down for written instru...

How to Post a Link to a Google Spreadsheet into your Blackboard Course

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Google Sheets can be used to allow students in a Blackboard course to edit a spreadsheet collaboratively. Here's a video showing how t...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Creating a Non-anonymous Survey in Blackboard

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Surveys in Blackboard are anonymous, which means the instructor cannot see which specific student answered a particular way in the survey ...