This document provides instructions for creating online sign-up sheets for student presentations using Blackboard Groups. It outlines creating a group set with sign-up sheets only and no other tools enabled. It then explains how to add a tool link to the main menu to make the sign-up sheets available for students to view and sign up for presentation time slots on specific dates.

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2. Paper Sign-Up Sheet

3. Paper Sign-Up Sheet

4. Situation
• Five minute oral presentations
• Sign up for one of two days (Oct
9th
& 11th
)
• Up to 8 students per day

7. Blackboard Learn Groups

8. Process Summary
• Create a group set
• Sign-up Sheet Only
• Don’t enable any tools for the
group
• Set the number of people who
can join the group
• Use instructions to link groups
with dates/times

9. Steps: Create the Sign-up Sheets

10. Steps: Make the Sign-up Sheets
Available to Students
1. At the top of the menu item list, click on the “+” icon.
2. Select “Tool Link”
3. Add a name, such as “Oral Presentation Sign-Up”
4. Select Type “Groups”
5. Click the option for “Available to Users”
6. Click “Submit”
The students will click on this link, on the main menu, to view the sign up sheets.

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12. SUMMARY
• Create Self-Enroll Group Set
• Sign-up Sheet Only
• Add Group Tool to Main Menu
Good web reference: http://
www.inf.aber.ac.uk/advisory/faq
/638/

13. THANK YOU!
Slides available at:
http://goo.gl/dm232k