Import Scantron Exam Scores
Faculty can import exam grades from scantrons into a Blackboard Learn course.
Faculty Innovation Spotlight: Preventing Academic Integrity Violations with Clickers
Cash Acrey has found an excellent way of discouraging students from bringing their classmates clickers to class to answer for them or asking a classmate to do the same for them.
Creating and Deleting Multiple Columns in the Grade Center
Creating and deleting multiple Grade Columns in the Grade Center can be a time consuming process. The “Batch Create Grade Columns‟ and “Batch Delete Grade Columns‟ tools make it much quicker and easier to add or remove Grade Columns.
Lecture Capture: Adding the Echo360 Tool to Blackboard Courses
In order for students to access the Echo360 content for a course a Content link to the Echo360 external tool must be added to each course. For student participation to be sent to the Results Center the Echo360 tool must be added through the Assessments menu on the Content page. Below you will find instructions for adding the Echo360 tool to courses, connecting Blackboard to Echo360 to get content, and creating a link to Echo360 in the course menu.
External Grade
By default, the Total column is the External Grade column, but you can set a different column, and should if using weighted totals. It is important that the external grade is set correctly because it is shared with your student and other University personnel (e.g. advisors, academic coaches, etc.) as the student’s final grade for the course.
Creating an Announcement on Blackboard
Learn how to send an announcement to your students through Blackboard to relay information quickly and efficiently.
Transfer grades from Blackboard to UAConnect
The transfer process is straightforward. In essence, you simply indicate in Blackboard which grade column you want to transfer, tell Blackboard to extract those grades, then go to UAConnect, select grades as usual, and use the big yellow button plainly marked “Upload from Bb” to complete the transfer. If any grades were not successfully transferred, UAConnect will tell you. Just enter them manually in the usual way. The final step – using “submitted” and “save” – is the same as always.
Import Items To Your Course
Did you know that you can save time by importing menu items, sometimes called institutional content, into your course that are regularly and automatically updated? You can add the menu items for several tools to your course that will provide detailed instructions for your students on using that particular tool. In just a few simple steps, you can add the menu items to your course for tools such as clickers and CLASS+.
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Linking to a Lynda Course or Video
Lynda.com training can be used for a wide variety of subjects in coursework. Class time can be freed up by teaching some skills outside of class with Lynda.com courses which allows for more in-class objectives to be achieved.