Blackboard Tips

You may download the Grade Center so you will have an offline copy to view and manipulate in Microsoft Excel or similar program.  We recomme...

Step 1 - Open the Discussion Board Access the Discussion Board by clicking on the Discussion Board link located in the navigation pane on th...

If you're using the Chat or Virtual Classroom options in the Collaboration section of Blackboard, we recommend version 5.0 of the Java p...

Wikis are shared web spaces (web pages) that students and instructors can post material to and edit together collaboratively. As the instr...

Blogs are journal-like web spaces that students can post material to. As the instructor, you can decide who in your class is allowed to post...

If you've had many courses in the past, you may have a large list of courses in the My Courses module on the front page of Blackboard. ...

If you are using the Firefox browser , there is a solution which will allow you or your students to download all the files in a Blackboard f...

Blackboard recommends these steps to enable Blackboard to run under Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista: Set blackboard.neu.edu as a ...

Creating a Turnitin Assignment is as easy as creating a regular Assignment in Blackboard. Turnitin Assignments have the advantage of automat...

Blackboard version 7 is available at blackboard.neu.edu Version 7 contains everything you are familiar with from previous versions of Blackb...

How to Podcast from Blackboard in four easy step s*: 1.  First toggle Edit Mode at the upper right of your course to " ON ...

Blackboard " Assignments " are a way to collect student documents and files in Blackboard. Adding an Assignment item to a course...

Click here for a video tutorial on how deploy online Tests in Blackboard. Specific tips for deploying an online test/quiz in Blackboard ...

Here are some of the special types of files that can be added to a content area in Blackboard. You add these by using the "Build Conte...

Important note: There is no 100% reliable way to prevent the copying or printing of any web page being displayed in a browser, on the Blackb...