Articles and on Brightspace and Blackboard Learn learning management systems.
Users can access Brightspace using their UWin Account credentials
The Centre for Teaching and Learning has created a six minute video tutorial about Blackboard that covers the most common tasks that instructors will need to perform.
The Bulk Notification Settings are not working properly, and there is no fix at this time to repair this issue.
Summary of essential tasks for instructors who are new to Blackboard, includes a printable PDF file.
Instructions for instructors on how to clear a failed attempt in the Grade Centre.
An overview of Blackboard that every instructor should read.
An overview of Blackboard that every student should read.
A link to Blackboard help topic that discusses accessibility.
The groups tool allows instructors to create groups of students within a course.
Explains where instructors and TA's can find assignment submissions once they have been graded so they can be reviewed once again and remarked.
Columns are created in the Blackboard Grade Center. These columns are used to track graded activities that are done externally from Blackboard, such as handwritten midterm and final examinations.
Blackboard offers a method to add extra credit marks.
Instructions for instructors who wish to add additional users to their site, such as teaching assistants, to help administer the course site.
The e-mail tool allows you to send e-mail messages to other people in your course from within Blackboard Learn without launching an external email program,
Tips for using Blackboard's content editor.
Announcements are a way to deliver messages to your students through Blackboard.
Clean up the downloadable results from a Blackboard survey.
Blackboard offers a feature to export your course materials and reimport them into another course.
Once your course code is entered into the Student Information System (SIS), and you are connected to that course in the SIS as the Instructor of Record, a regular process runs and will automatically create a "Course Shell." This shell is not available to students until you make it available.
Requesting Organization Site in Blackboard
This webpage provides instructions on how to grade assignments submitted by students through Blackboard.
Blackboard offers a method to manage the courses tab, which overtime can become crowded and disorganized.
How to set Course Availability (formerly LAUNCH THIS SITE in CLEW)
Instructions for instructors on how to release final exam grades from the Grade Centre, and what to do to adjust a final grade before exporting to eGrade.
Sometimes students will report issues when completing a test such as connection loss or errors.
Here are some quick tips if you are having difficulty with submitting an assignment in Blackboard.
If a student has submitted the maximum number of attempts for an assignment, you can allow an additional attempt.
Permissions allow users to access certain features of a course or organization site, depending on their Roles and on the decisions made by the site owner and the system administrator. Roles are simply collections of permissions.
For various reasons, course instructors may want to change the way tests are available to specific students in the course. The Test Availability Exception feature allows instructors to create exceptions for specific students or groups of students based on a number of criteria.
Step by step instructions for the instructor on how to enable adaptive release for an assignment.
Brightspace course are visible to registered students once the instructor has activated the course site.
We created a Blackboard tool for importing grade data into Blackboard's Grade Center. This tool is mainly used to help Instructors import Scantron data.
Steps on how to make a course site available or active for students.
Roster tool allows users to view a searchable list of students enrolled in your course.
When tests or surveys are created in Blackboard, there are not automatically deployed and sent out to students.
Videos and articles associated with the basic tasks discovered when needing to get started with Blackboard at UWindsor. Most are from the Blackboard Learn: On Demand Tutorials site, but some pertain to local procedures at the University of Windsor.
The availability lock icon produces an access denied error when used outside of the default term dates.
There is an issue affecting file uploads using Microsoft Edge if these files are opened after they are selected for upload.
If feedback is provided in a dropdown rubric without making a grading selection, that feedback will be lost without warning upon saving.
An error is encountered when downloading the Collaborate launcher with Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge
If a student attempts to access the discussion board through a link found in the What's New module, they will receive an error message.
Files uploaded to the "Feedback to Learner" textbox in group wikis are inaccessible to anyone.
A known issue in Blackboard is preventing students from exporting files that contain spaces in their names.
Due to a bug with the inline grading convertor, fonts are replaced in word documents, causing unexpected formatting changes.
The highlighting annotation tool in Blackboard can sometimes act erractly, leaving spaces in the highlight, or the highlight may enter the right margin of the page.
When you copy and paste from word into the Blackboard content editor it does carry over the formation and spacing tags along with it.
Fix to remedy missing scroll bars in Grade Centre on a Mac
Partial Grading option for Self and Peer Assessment tool for student grading only allows whole numbers to be used, not partial decimals. No workaround available at this time except for a partial grade to be sent to the instructor for manual override in the Grade Centre cell.
Assignment submissions made through the Blackboard app will not be checked through SafeAssign if that option is enabled.
Users of the YouTube Mashup feature will encounter a 403 error upon its use. A workaround is available to embed videos into your Blackboard site.
Merging Blackboard Sites into One Main Site
Instructor Semester Checklist will ensure that you are ready to work with your course to start a new semester.
Test your browser to see if it is supported with Blackboard using the online browser checker tool.
The Student Preview Tool is a tool that enables instructors to review course content and course behaviors such as content availability.
List of Blackboard help articles by topic, and other on-line resources
Getting Started guide, list of Blackboard help topics, "UWindsor Students Using Blackboard" video.
Provides a link to the CLEW Wiki
Courses on Blackboard can be accessed in many ways.
Link to a Web site designed to assist you in learning about copyright in order that you can address the copyright issues that are important for your scholarly work.
There are many reasons why a course you are enrolled in does not appear in Blackboard.
Courses in Blackboard are automatically generated for instructors. However, there are some reasons when a course may not be generated automatically.
How to create a course menu item to correspond to the Blackboard Collaborate tool to give students access to tool.
Students can view their grades through the My Grades link located in the left menu.