Blackboard
Blackboard (Bb) is a web-based Learning Management System. Essentially, it is a website that class participants can access any time from any computer with an Internet connection.
Bb use cases, how-to videos and documentation for both faculty and students, faculty request forms and a FAQ are included below.
Blackboard Login
Login with your Bentley credentials
Blackboard Request Forms
Use Cases
- Students can access course-related materials – syllabus, presentations, videos, grades.
- Students can collaborate with faculty and other students using discussion boards and/or journals and blogs.
- Faculty can collect assignments, give quizzes, tests, and exams, and securely provide grades and feedback to the student.
How-to Documentation for Faculty
General Bb Information
Build Content
Create Assessments
- Copy a test from one Blackboard course site to another
- Create, collect and grade assignments
- Create tests & surveys
- Create student video assignments
- Kaltura Quiz instructions
- Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor
- Technical options to consider when creating a Blackboard test
- Feedback Studio: How students view assignment grades and instructor comments
Collaboration Tools
Course Management
- Backup or copy your course
- Copy a test from one Blackboard site to another
- Copy an existing course
- Copy content between course sites
- Course storage quota
- Create announcements
- Customize a course site's menu
- Download Your Course Content Files From A Blackboard Course Site
- Enable and view statistics tracking in Blackboard
- Make a course site available or unavailable
- Merge multiple sections into a single site
- Post faculty info
- Qwickly attendance tool
- Send email
- View the course enrollment roster
How-to Documentation for Students
Bb Fundamentals
Course-specific Activities
- Can I customize My Institution page?
- Can I hide course content from students until I'm ready?
- How can I view my grades (for students)?
- How do I access my Blackboard courses?
- How do I create course content and what types of content can I add to my course?
- How do I grade in my course?
- How do I send an email in my course?
- What Blackboard resources are available for students?
- What types of content can I add to my course?
- When will the next semester's course sites be ready?
- Why can't students see my course?