This screencast will demonstrate how to use the Course Copy Tool in Blackboard. The Course Copy tool lets an instructor copy course material to one course on the server to a new or existing course on the server. The one thing this tool does not do is save a copy of the course materials to a file. This does not back up the material, it simply copies the material. Just like the export/import and archive course tools in Blackboard, you will receive an email once the process has finished. To view the screencast, please click on the link below:

Course Copy Screencast

-Angel Brady

This screencast will demonstrate how to view features you applied to tests like timers, feedback, and how to download all the answers to an exam for all the students in one spreadsheet.

To view this tutorial, please click on the link below:
Gradebook: How to View Test Feature

-Angel Brady

This screencast will demonstrate how to edit your course menu in Blackboard. You can add content areas (or delete the content area). You can also add course tools to your menu or course or external links. You can also change the order an item appears in your course menu. To see how to manage your course menu, click on the link below.

Manage Course Menu in Blackboard (screencast)

-Angel Brady

This screencast will demonstrate how to edit your My Courses list in Blackboard. it will go over how to hide old courses from your list and how to turn on course ID’s for your list. Turning on course ID’s is super helpful for faculty members that teach the same course over a few semesters that have the same name, but you’re not sure which semester or year that class was taught. Watch this brief screencast to help you edit your My Courses list on the Welcome Page in Blackboard!

How to Edit the My Courses List on the Welcome Page in Blackboard

-Angel Brady

This tutorial demonstrates how to upload files to the Digital Dropbox in Blackboard. When sending a file, users usually use the Add File button. This will not send it to your instructor. You will always want to choose the Send File button. To view the how to add files using the Digital DropBox, click on the link below:
Digital Dropbox in Blackboard

-Angel Brady

I recently had an instructor ask me how to open up a quiz to one student (because they missed a quiz) but not to the rest of the students. I did a little searching and realized that the Adaptive Release function in Blackboard would be a great solution to this issue. Adaptive release allows you to make rules on how an item is view, or if another item will appear after another item is viewed or completed. You can use Adaptive Release is many ways. The scenario above is just one example. To view the screencast on how to create an adaptive release for a quiz to appear to one student and not the rest of the class, please click on the link below:

Adaptive Release for Blackboard 7 for Missed Quizzes

-Angel Brady

Instead of editing your contact lists that you built in Excel or Access inside those programs before you do a MailMerge, you can edit you lists right inside the MailMerge function in Word 2007. This tutorial will walk you through the process of adding entries to your recipient list in MailMerge, deleting recipients, filtering out recipients, or sorting recipients. To view this screencast, click one the link below:

How to Edit Your Contact List in MailMerge (Word 2007)

-Angel Brady

This screencast demonstrates how to manually grade an item in Blackboard’s Gradebook, how to override a manual grade in Gradebook, and how to clear attempts on an item. With some items, you need to enter a manual grade (for an essay for example). The Override manual grade feature can be for a student that did extra credit to boost their grade, you can enter their new grade and override the old one (while keeping the old one in their for reference). You can also allow a student to re-take an online exam/quiz by clearing the attempt of the exam and clearing the grade in Gradebook. To view this screencast, click on the following link:

 Entering Manual Grades in Blackboard 7

-Angel Brady

This screencast demonstrates how to flag a post in a discussion board thread in Blackboard 7. This is a great feature in case you need to go back to a posts to re-read it later. It is also ideal for grading purposes. To view the screencast, click on the following link:
How to Flag Discussion Board Posts in Blackboard 7

-Angel Brady

This screencast will demonstrate how to use ustream.tv (free service) to live video stream lectures or office hours to your students and embed it into Blackboard. This is a great tool for distance learning and for instructors that can not make ito to campus due to bad weather or other circumstances but still want to cover material in their course. All you need is a web cam (a cheep one will do), a computer, and an internet connection. To view the screencast click on the following link:

How to Use ustream.tv to Stream Live Video to Your Students in Blackboard

-Angel Brady