Join us Friday at 10:00 am via Collaborate for a 30-minute session. No need to register, just click on the Collaborate Guest Link to join.  To prepare for the session, visit the Bb Collaborate setup page.

Learn more:

Visit our Blackboard Updates page.

Previous sessions:

Global Navigation Menu -  Watch the recording.

Calendar Tool – Watch the recording.

Discussions and Posts – Watch the recording.

Join us Friday at 10:00 am via Collaborate for a 30-minute session. No need to register, just click on the Collaborate Guest Link to join.  To prepare for the session, visit the Bb Collaborate setup page.

Upcoming sessions include:

May 24th – Content Editor

Learn more:

Visit our Blackboard Updates page.

Previous sessions:

Global Navigation Menu -  Watch the recording.

Calendar Tool – Watch the recording.

This week’s Learning Shorts will focus on the new and improved Calendar tool, launching this summer.   In this session we’ll learn about accessing the new calendar, creating events, and exporting the calendar.

Join us this Friday at 10:00 am via Collaborate for a 30-minute session. No need to register, just click on the Collaborate Guest Link to join.  To prepare for the session, visit the Bb Collaborate setup page.

Upcoming sessions include:

May 10th – Calendar

May 17th – Discussion Board and Posts

May 24th – Content Editor

Learn more:

Visit our Blackboard Updates page.

Missed last week’s session on the Global Navigation Menu?  Watch the recording.

For the month of May our Learning Shorts series will be returning to offer a preview of new features in Blackboard.  These features will be available starting this Summer.  Join us every Friday at 10:00 am via Collaborate for a 30 minute session.

In each session we will focus on a specific feature, talk about where to learn more and end with a Q&A.  No need to register, just click on the Collaborate Guest Link to join.  To prepare for the session, visit the Bb Collaborate setup page.

Sessions include:

May 3rd – Global Navigation Menu

May 10th – Calendar

May 17th – Discussion Board and Posts

May 24th – Content Editor

Learn more:

Visit our Blackboard Updates page.

Items with due dates automatically appear on the new Blackboard Learn calendar. If an instructor changes a due date, the calendar gets updated as well. On the flip side, moving a calendar item (by clicking on the item or drag and drop) simultaneously changes a due date for an instructor.

Calendar events may be viewed at once– or filtered to show only the desired mix of class and personal events. Users can select which calendars to view, ranging from personal to institution to individual course listings.

These calendar items can also be exported via an iCal feed to Outlook, Google or other 3rd party calendars.

The data helps you easily refine ineffective or misleading questions or detect other issues.

You can use this information to improve questions for future tests or you can go directly to an assessment and adjust credit on current attempts with the “Edit Test” button.

When you revise or delete an assessment question the change will automatically be updated into the Grade Center.

For additional information, view: Item Analysis

Article: Running Item Analysis on a Test

And the Avatars associated with the profiles carry over to these forums, letting users put faces to names.

Additionally, with Journal, Wiki, and Blog posts, you can comment right from within the Posts interface or you can click to see the full context of the post in the course environment.  With Discussion Board posts, you can click right into the interface in the course environment where you can type your reply.  So it’s simple to both stay up-to-date and involved in the conversation.

The entry point to My Blackboard is a new Global Navigation Menu. This new menu is available all the time in the top right corner of the Learn interface and provides one-click access to your Courses, Organizations, Settings, Blackboard Help, and the new My Blackboard tools. You can see these new tools down the left-hand side of the menu. And the numbers in red tell you if there’s something that’s new or needs your attention – so you never have to worry about missing anything.

With this new Global Navigation menu, you can access everything you need quickly and easily, from wherever you are in the Blackboard Learn platform.

This menu can be accessed at any time throughout the application by pressing Shift+Alt+M (PC) or Control+Alt+M (Mac) on your keyboard.

When you create a profile, you have the option of using information from your other social media like Facebook or Twitter – like your profile picture for example.

Profiles also have privacy options, such as letting you keep your profile hidden. Or you make your profile available to people you share Courses and Organizations with you. If you like, you can also make your profile available to everyone at your school.

Once you create your new profile it will appear throughout the Blackboard platform in the Roster, User Directory, Discussion Boards, Blogs, Journals, and Wikis.

When you hover over someone’s profile picture, the profile cards pops up so you can see their profile information and learn more about people that share space with you. Profiles also give you the ability to report inappropriate content in someone’s profile information.

For additional information, please view: My Blackboard Profile

Article: Social Learning Tools
Article: Edit Personal Information and Settings