Blackboard 8 is Here
Blackboard 8 boasts a completely redesigned Grade Center – formerly known as the Gradebook. Major new features include:
- Spreadsheet-like columns
- Inline editing: the ability to enter grades directly through the Grade Center spreadsheet
- New calculations: average grade, minimum/maximum, total and weighting
- Smart Views: the ability to categorize students into groupings based on selected criteria
- Reports
- A multitude of ways to customize the display of the Grade Center
Click Here to learn more about the benefits and find out what the Grade Center can do for you.
Grade Center Overview
Grade Center How-To's
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Getting Started with Blackboard
How do I log into Blackboard?
Go to http://blackboard.uncg.edu and log in with your Novell username and password. If your Novell password has expired, you may visit http://reset.uncg.edu to reset it. If you do not know your Novell username or need assistance activating your computing accounts and resetting your password, please contact 256-TECH for assistance.
How do I access my courses?
Once you log into Blackboard, you will see a My Courses module. This module lists links to all of the courses you are teaching within Blackboard. Please note, a Blackboard course is created for each course for which you are listed as the instructor of record in UNCGenie. However, these courses will not be accessible to students until you make the course available.
To access your course:
1. Click on a course link in the My Courses module
2. Your course site will open
3. Where can I find a comprehensive Blackboard manual?
Click Here for the Blackboard Instructor's Manual.
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Blackboard How-To's
Setting up your Blackboard Course
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User Management
Note - The Banner Information System (aka "UNCGenie") automatically enrolls registered students to your Blackboard courses.
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Adding & Managing Content
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Assessment
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Communication & Collaboration
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Content System
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Organizations
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ThomsonNow
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Learning Objects
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Other Blackboard Features
SafeAssign
SafeAssign™ is a plagiarism prevention service offered by Blackboard. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.
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Early Warning System
The Early Warning System is a tool used to communicate warnings to students that a performance problem is beginning to appear or has become more serious. Warnings can be generated based on graded performance, late or missing course work, or the last time the student accessed the course. The Instructor can choose to communicate a particular warning to a Student via email. In addition, the Instructor has control over the message each time a warning is communicated. The Instructor can use the default message or modify it to more accurately communicate the seriousness of the situation.
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Google Scholar
What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Features of Google Scholar
- Search diverse sources from one convenient place
- Find papers, abstracts and citations
- Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
- Learn about key papers in any area of research
How does Google Scholar work with Blackboard?
- Google Scholar Search allows you to create a stored query that makes it easy for students to perform a real-time search of Google Scholar. Click here for instructions (PDF).
- Google Scholar Content allows you to browse Google Scholar from within the course site and it allows you to add content directly from Google Scholar to your course with just a few clicks. Click here for instructions (PDF.)
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Last Updated: August 10, 2008 |