Tips and tricks on how to manage your course in Blackboard

1. Course Management

2. Control Panel
Features of
Control Panel

3. Content
Collection
Instructor can store, share, and
publish content within personal
user folders, course folders, and
institution folders.
Files and Portfolios can be linked
in different areas in a course

4. Course Tools
Attendance: Mark student attendance
Date Management: Adjust dates automatically from
one location
Respondus Lockdown Browser: Browser that locks
down the testing environment within Blackboard
SafeAssign: Plagiarism tool, view your SafeAssign
reports here
Link Checker: Verifies the links within course are
valid

5. Evaluations
Course Analytics: Four reports available
for instructors. Next four slides will
present the reports
Course Reports: You can run reports such
as participation report
Performance Dashboard: Informs you
about all the activities in the course
Retention Center: Provides early alerts for
at risk students

6. Course Analytics Report: Course at a Glance

7. Course Analytics Report: Activity and Grade Scatter Plot

8. Course Analytics Report: Activity and Grade Matrix

9. Course Analytics Report: Course Submission Summary

10. Performance Dashboard Report

11. Retention Center Report

12. Users and
Groups
Users: A way to see the roster. You also
can make participants unavailable
Groups: It lets you create course groups
one at a time or in sets. You can choose
the enrollment options as, Self enroll,
Random Enroll, and Manual enroll.

13. Customization
Properties: May change course
availability date
Teaching style: Change course
entry point, colors, default
content view, attach course
banner

14. Packages and
Utilities
Bulk delete: Use with caution! Do not delete users!
Course links: You can run the tool to make sure that
all the links are working
Course copy: Copy from the source (with content) to
the new course
Export/Archive Course: Create a zip copy of your
course
Import package: Bring a zip file into the course