Blackboard has a number of other tools that you might find useful in teaching your course.
Ultra Courses:
You can navigate your course as an actual student user using Student Preview mode. Learn more at this site.
Original Courses:
In addition to turning Edit Mode off to see your course as a student, you can navigate your course as an actual student user using Student Preview mode. Learn more at this site.
You can add an avatar within Blackboard. This is an image that can be used to represent you throughout the system. This is a great way to personalize your Blackboard experience. Your avatar will appear in multiple places throughout Blackboard, including Discussion Boards, Blogs, Journals, and Wikis, and My Blackboard navigation.
1. To upload your avatar: Click the Personal Profile page (with your name)
2. Hover over the silhouette image
3. Click the pencil icon.
4. Upload your avatar image. Avatar images should be no larger than 150 pixels by 150 pixels.
Personalize your Zoom experience: You can add your picture to your Zoom account so that when you are not using a video camera your image displays instead of a black silhouette.
Personalize your Voicethread experience: You can add your picture to your Voicethread account so that it displays instead of your initials next to all of your contributions.
Blackboard has a feature to help make changes to multiple items in your course all at once. This includes adjusting dated items (announcements, assignments, content) for the new term, as well as changing the visibility. After you’ve copied forward your course materials from a previous semester (see Copy or Import Course Content),
See Blackboard documentation about Batch Edit
This documentation site includes a short video (3:12) demonstrating this tool.
Please note: After Blackboard has adjusted all the dates, it will show you a grid of each item with its old and new dates; it will also send an email. If you have announcements that have no date restrictions, but you include them in the date adjustments, you may see some unexpected dates in the feedback on the confirmation web page and email. However, the announcement itself will still be available and without date restrictions, as you would have expected.
Blackboard Wiki (Original only)
Blackboard has a feature to help adjust dated items (announcements, assignments, content) for the new term. After you’ve copied forward your course materials from a previous semester (see Copy or Import Course Content), go under Control Panel to Course Tools/Date Management to change availability and release dates to reflect the current term’s dates. This saves entering each announcement/assignment/item etc. to adjust dates.
See Blackboard documentation about Date Management:
Date Management
This documentation site includes a short video (3:12) demonstrating this tool.
Please note: After Blackboard has adjusted all the dates, it will show you a grid of each item with its old and new dates; it will also send an email. If you have announcements that have no date restrictions, but you include them in the date adjustments, you may see some unexpected dates in the feedback on the confirmation web page and email. However, the announcement itself will still be available and without date restrictions, as you would have expected.