Blackboard Tips

Blackboard uses a small picture called an "Avatar" to represent you on your Discussion Board posts, in Wikis, Journals, and...

To add a banner to your course in Blackboard: 1.   Log into Blackboard and click to enter your course site. 2.  Click Customizatio...

Blackboard Service Pack 9 features a new modern look and feel and many feature enhancements and bug fixes. "New Theme" S...

The difference between a "running" total and a non-running total is that a running total will not penalize students for ungraded i...

You may have duplicate or redundant "Total" or "Weighted Total" columns in your Blackboard Grade Center. Here is a sho...

Here is a method that can be used to post content in Blackboard, such as a video file, outside of the context of a specific Blackboard cours...

Here is a video showing how to post a link to an RSS feed into your Blackboard course site. Link to video:  http://screencast.com/t/axcmR5...

To use Google Docs within Blackboard, create a Google Doc and then post a link to it in your Blackboard course.  You may also choose to embe...

Now available at Northeastern University for everyone The Blackboard Mobile Learn App allows students and instructors to access B...

You can create a "private"  iTunes U page for your Blackboard course.  You can use the site to upload media files for your course...

Here are some frequently asked questions about iTunes U content in Blackboard. How do I publish content to iTunes U? To publish content ...

Blackboard has two separate messaging systems: (1) an internal messaging system called " Course Messages ", and (2) an external me...

You may want to allow a student to take longer than the time limit for a timed Test or Quiz in your Blackboard course. To accomplish this,...

There are several ways to add a link to your textbook in Blackboard.  Here is a way that automatically creates a link to the Northeastern Un...

Service Pack 7 for Blackboard includes bug fixes and improvements. Some of the features enabled by this Service Pack are: - Interactive ...

UPDATE:  Google Calendar has discontinued its sign-up block function.  The new way to do this in Blackboard is here:  http://blackboardtips....

The Entry Point is the first page students see when they click into your course site. Here's a video showing how to change to Entry Poin...

If you have a lot of files and folders and you want to upload all of them to Blackboard at once, you can use a "Document Package"...

Here is how students gain access to course sites on the NEU Blackboard site at blackboard.neu.edu Northeastern University students are e...

This is how to connect your Blackboard course to the McGraw-Hill Connect service. 1.  If you have not done so already, establish a McGraw-...

Respondus LockDown Browser is a tool that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard to prevent students from browsing to other si...