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Abstract

Procedures for instructors using the Blackboard 8.0 Vista courseware system.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: What is Blackboard 8.0?
2. Confusing product names
2.1. Blackboard and WebCT are both vendors and products
2.2. Blackboard and Vista
2.3. NMT uses two courseware systems
3. Contacting the site administrator
4. Blackboard terminology
4.1. Levels: The overall hierarchy
4.2. Learning context
4.3. Roles
5. Registering in Blackboard
6. Training sections: your place to experiment
7. How to get courses into the system
8. Logging in
9. How to change your password
10. General page layout
11. Entering your course
12. Layout of the course builder's page
13. Setting up your course syllabus
13.1. Creating a syllabus tool
13.2. Setting up the syllabus tool
14. Blackboard's tool set
14.1. Adding and removing tools from your course
15. The Learning Modules tool: A place for course notes
15.1. Creating a learning module
15.2. Adding content to a learning module
15.3. Reorganizing the contents of a learning module
16. Course Content: Your section's homepage
16.1. Adding a link to content
16.2. Rearranging icons on a course content page
16.3. Reorganizing a content page in Power View
16.4. Adding a folder to the course home page
16.5. Adding a file to a content page
16.6. Adding a link to an outside Web page
17. Content Manager operations
17.1. Uploading a zip archive into the File Manager
17.2. Managing your files with folders
18. Using the Grade Book tool
18.1. Add an alphanumeric column to the grade book
18.2. Entering and modifying column values in the grade book
18.3. Moving a column laterally in the grade book
18.4. Deleting a grade book column
18.5. Adding a numeric column to the grade book
18.6. Adding a selection list column to the grade book
18.7. Calculated columns
18.8. Letter grade columns
19. The assignments tool
19.1. Posting assignments
19.2. Grading assignments