Blackboard allows instructors to communicate with students, post course materials, facilitate collaboration, streamline the homework process, create online tests and surveys, deliver grades electronically, and provide a central location for course content and computer assignments. Specific capabilities include posting homework online, having students submit work digitally, recording grades, providing students access to their grades, delivering course content in various file formats, making announcements, sending emails, setting up discussion boards, enabling file sharing, and creating various types of online assessments that provide immediate feedback to students.

2. What you can do with Blackboard
• Communicate with your students
• Create and post course materials
• Facilitate student collaboration
• Streamline your homework process
• Create online tests and surveys
• Electronically deliver grades
• Links to course related web sites
• Central location jumping point for class
computer assignments.

3. Streamline Homework Process
• Post homework assignments online.
• Have students submit completed work in
the digital dropbox.
• Post student grades and return annotated
student work

4. Manage Course Grades
• Record grades for traditional assessments as
well as blackboard online assignments.
• Provide student online access of grades.
(saves time when kids want to know their
progress report grade)
• View statistics for each assessment in
extraordinary detail.
• Students get immediate feedback on tests &
are able to review the whole test. (good for
exam review)

5. Deliver Course Material
• Html, text, audio, video, and MS Office
formats such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
• Navigation buttons include: Bibliography,
Books, Course Information, Course
Documents, Course Materials, Documents,
Homework, Course Information, Lectures,
Labs, Projects, Syllabus, Textbook, and
Assignments

6. Communicate with Students
• Announcements-Post announcements, daily
reminders, extra credit, etc.
• Send e-mail to an individual student, group of
students, or the whole class.
• Discussion Board-Set up forums for students to
participate in discussions outside of class time.
It logs conversations, allows creation of topics.
• File exchange tool allows multiple users to
work on an assignment from different locations
& to collaborate

7. Online Assessments
• Multiple choice, T/F, fill in the blank, multiple
answer, matching, ordering, short answer/essay are
all formats supported by this site.
• You can even attach pictures, audio, video, or links
to articles or sites on the web inside of a test.
• Provides immediate student feedback of correct
answers or built in responses that can teach why that
is the right/wrong answer.
• Surveys can allow for online polling or evaluations.
• We could even build question pools for all to share.

9. • http://www.cmu.edu/blackboard/help/what_
can_do/communicate.htm

10. • http://www.cmu.edu/blackboard/help/what_
can_do/communicate.htm