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Getting Started with Blackboard
Blackboard is an easy-to-use online course delivery and management system. Using Blackboard's graphical point-and-click interface, instructors can incorporate learning materials from word processing, audio & video, spread sheets, and presentation files without ever learning HTML.
Click here for instructor guides/manual for Blackboard.
Features include:
  • Announcements
  • Content presentation
  • Calendar
  • Threaded discussions
  • Online quizzes, surveys, and gradebooks
  • Real-time chat and whiteboard - Not currently available
  • Group Pages for student team projects
  • Online File Exchange

Faculty Self Service Page

With the implementation of Blackboard 5, faculty now have three new options.

1. CNS staff created a faculty self-service page to help faculty manage their own Blackboard 5 accounts. (i.e. combine several sections into a single account; combine two different courses, team-taught from different departments into a single account)

2. On the page, faculty can create a new Blackboard 5 account and enroll their GA/TA or extra faculty members into the existing course.

3. Further, after a quarter is over, faculty can still use this page to reactiviate a course for content update and to enroll incomplete students back into the course.


Minimum required when using Blackboard 5

Platform: Windows 95, 98, or 2000
Hardware: 64 MB of RAM, 1 G of free disk space
Browser: Internet Explorer 4.0 or Higher - JavaScript & Cookies must be enabled.
Modem: 56 K

For the latest versions of the browsers, go to the following link:Internet Explorer

If you want to check whether your browser is up-to-date, go to our browser checker.

For immediate technical support, call the Support Center. 593-1222

 

 


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Scott Quad 021 Athens, Ohio 45701
Tel: 740.597.2702 Fax 740.597.2707 Email:
citl@ohio.edu
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