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NMT Blackboard 8.0 Administrator's Guide

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Abstract

This guide describes procedures for local administration of our Blackboard (Vista) 8.0 course system.

This publication is available in Web form and also as a PDF document. Please forward any comments to tcc-doc@nmt.edu.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What you'll need
3. Browser compatibility
4. Connecting as administrator
5. Important definitions
5.1. Organization level
5.2. Learning context
5.3. Roles
5.4. Category
5.5. Term
5.6. Template
6. Maintaining the category structure
6.1. Adding a category
6.2. Deleting a category
6.3. Changing the category of a course
7. Managing terms (semesters)
8. Course management
8.1. Adding a course
8.2. Editing a course
8.3. Adding a section
8.4. Editing a section
8.5. Deleting a section
8.6. Searching for a section
8.7. Cross-listing sections
9. Making and restoring course backups
9.1. Types of backups
9.2. Why make backups?
9.3. How to make an online backup
9.4. Offline backups: backing up a course as a file
9.5. Restoring sections from backups
10. Templates
10.1. Creating a new template
10.2. Changing template permissions
10.3. Building a template
10.4. Copying and moving templates
10.5. Associating a template with a course
10.6. Disassociating a template from a course
10.7. Converting a section to a template
10.8. Create a section from a template
11. User records
11.1. Adding a user
11.2. Editing the user record
11.3. Deleting a user record
11.4. Search for user records
12. Enrollment: connecting users and roles
12.1. Blackboard's roles
12.2. Viewing enrollment
12.3. Enrolling a user in a section
12.4. Unenrolling users
12.5. Enrolling Help Desk users
13. Help Desk operations
13.1. Changing Blackboard passwords at the Help Desk
13.2. Enrolling students at the Help Desk
14. Batch operations: setting up classes en masse
14.1. Bb8accts: Create Blackboard accounts for all TCC users
14.2. Bb8sects: Create courses, sections, and cross-listed sets
14.3. Bb8enroll: Enroll all students in a section
14.4. Bb8uncross: Remove a cross-listing parent section
14.5. Uploading SIS integration files
15. Branding
16. Configuration change log
16.1. 2009-05-20: Enable course backups for course and section roles
16.2. 2008-12-30: Disable broken upload applet
16.3. 2008-12-23: Configure cross-listed sections
16.4. 2008-11-21: Create “NMT Division” and “NMT Group”
17. Appendix I: Department codes
Next: 1. Introduction
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Last updated: 2009-05-20 19:47
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