Introduction to Blackboard for Faculty

Department of Information Technology Resources (ITR)

Fall 2004

John Dono                                User Services, ITR

jedlc@cunyvm.cuny.edu           (718) 960-8421

Session Outline

• What is Blackboard and how is it used at Lehman

• How to access Blackboard

                        Registering on the CUNY Portal

                        Portal login

                        Portal àBlackboard 6

                        Portal Problems

                        Alternate Blackboard access

                        Logouts

• My Institution page

                        Courses you are teaching

• Entering a course

                        Instructor/Student views

                        Control Panel

Changing Course Settings: availability

                        Changing Course Settings: course name

                        Online manual

• Enrollment in your Blackboard course

• Content Areas and adding content via Control Panel

Direct entry of text

“attaching” files

File formats, sizes

File conversions (e.g. to HTML, Adobe Acrobat)

• Discussion Board

                        Creating a forum, management of a discussion board

• Email accounts, OCS and Blackboard

• Digital Drop Box

• Assessments and Grades

• Monitoring Participation

Useful URLs, Help and Support

CUNY Home Page                  http://www.cuny.edu

Blackboard Sidedoor              http://blackboard-doorway.cuny.edu

CUNY Portal Documentation               http://www.lehman.edu/docs/portalinfo.pdf

            (or Click on Blackboard link on Lehman Home page http://www.lehman.edu

Oracle Collaboration Suite – web client http://collabsuite.cuny.edu

Oracle Collaboration Suite Getting Started Guide (Email system)

                                                See link on Lehman Home Page http://www.lehman.edu

Documents used in this session and related documentation and faculty training schedules (under development):                           
http://www.lehman.edu/faculty/john/bb

Student workshop schedule      http://www.lehman.edu/training

(to arrange student training sessions, contact Valerie Henderson, valerie.henderson@lehman.cuny.edu)

ITR Help Desk             helpdesk@lehman.cuny.edu      (718) 960-1111

IT Center, Carman Hall

CUNY Help Desk                    hpdcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu         (212) 541-0981

57th Street

Online Manual              Blackboard Course Control Panel > Assistance

> Online Manual

Blackboard Support:                http://support.blackboard.com (requires signing up with Blackboard; .pdf versions of manuals available in Reference Center)

Other                                       http://www.lehman.edu/acctemp/techteach

                                                documentation prepared by Ursula Hoffmann

http://www.lehman.edu/lol

                                                documentation prepared by Robert Whittaker