Logging in to Lynda.com

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Lynda.com courses are now available to all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Arkansas. Lynda.com offers a wide variety of courses. There’s everything from Office 365 tutorials to courses on Time Management and other business skills.

About Your Course Syllabus

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You can create or modify a course syllabus within Blackboard Learn. If you have already created a syllabus in another application, you can upload it to Blackboard Learn.

Blackboard: About Your Course Menu

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Your course menu is your students’ road map for progressing through your class. An easy to understand course menu will save you and your students time when they’re completing assignments and accessing course materials.

Printing Exams using Respondus

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To print exams from Blackboard you will need to use the Respondus test creation tool. This tool will allow you to retrieve the exam from Blackboard and print from your computer. Respondus can be downloaded from the Software tab in Blackboard if you do not already have it installed on your computer.

Clicker Demo Kit

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Instructors who would like to try out clickers before committing to using them in their classes can check out the clicker demo kit. Additionally, groups on campus can also check them out for use in their meetings.

Create a Total Column in Blackboard

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Different grading schemes sometimes call for different uses of columns in Blackboard. Total calculated columns can be useful in averaging all columns in your Grade Center or just a selected group of columns or categories.

Clickers and Academic Integrity

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Students should be aware that taking another person’s clicker to class in order to answer for them constitutes an academic integrity violation.  There have unfortunately been cases where students brought their classmates’ clickers with them and answered all of the questions on multiple clickers.

Create an Average Grade Column

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Different grading schemes sometimes call for different uses of columns in Blackboard. Average calculated columns can be useful in averaging a group of columns which each have the same number of points possible. This is done by adding the total number of points and dividing that number by the number of columns.