Blackboard - A Quick Guide for Tutors

This tutorial gives tutors a very quick introduction about using Blackboard

In college
• Internet Explorer
• BlackBoard Server
• Enter user name and password

From home use URL address: http://bb6.dundeecollege.ac.uk

Which Course?
• My Courses
• Click on name of course you need to access

Students must be “Registered” with Blackboard
• Before you can enrol a student they must register with Blackboard – they can do thisthrough Internet Explorer.
• We are happy to come along to do an induction to Blackboard with your students

Enrol a Student on your Course
• Control panel (left hand menu near bottom)
• User Management
• Enrol user
• Select how you will search for student – surname or username
• Type search criteria – i.e. students surname or user name
• Click Search
• Select the students you want to add to your course
• Submit

Add a New Folder or Item
• Course Document
• Edit View
• Click on Icon: +Item or +Folder
• Add detail as required
• Browse for file as required

Make an item available or not available
• Course Documents
• Edit View
• Modify
• In part 3 – Make the content available - select Yes
• In Part 3 – to hide the content – select No
• Submit
• Check in display view that students can see the item

Announcements
• Control Panel (left hand menu near bottom)
• Course Tools
• Announcements
• Add announcement
• 1 – Subject and Message
• 2 – Permanent or select when message is to be displayed. Sometimes easier to makeit permanent and then at a later date make not available.
• 3 – You can make a link to somewhere in the course to help direct students to reading, etc.
• 4 – Submit

Student has Forgotten Password?
• Control panel (left hand menu near bottom)
• User Management
• List/Modify Users
• Search by last name or username
• Click on Password
• Ask student to enter a password they will use and remember
• Submit the change

Within Blackboard there is a Help tab which has frequently asked questions which you can refer to.

The training booklets are also available.

Or even better come along to a CPD training session or arrange a one-to-one session with oneof our team.