Teaching Tips
Keep a teaching journal
While you are still experiencing the successes and challenges of this semester, consider recording some notes on practices and activities that are or aren't moving the class towards your stated objectives. You might want to reflect on your teaching and note what you might like to try or change in a future course.
Using Blackboard:
Exploring the Grade Center
This in-depth tutorial of the Grade Center explains basic and extended functions along with several other time-saving features.
Using Blackboard:
Control Panel
Content Area, Course Tools, Course Options, User Management, Assessment & Grades
Each item listed in this resource links to steps on how to use the features as they appear in the Control Panel of your Bb site.
Create a custom banner for your Bb course site
Select from several background images, add your course number, title and name. Presto! Use the new Blackboard Course banner image creator to add a custom banner to your course site.Blackboard Online Workshops
Online workshops are available for viewing on-demand at your convenience. Simply select the webcast of interest and view it at your leisure.
Getting Started
Discover how to support learning in your on-campus or online courses with a learning management system (Bb) website.
Introduction to the Content Collection
This introduction to the main features of the Content Collection (Blackboard’s virtual hard drive) guides users on accessing their FSU virtual hard drive from any Internet connected computer. Participants learn how to upload files, create folders, enable versioning and set permissions for file sharing.
Introduction to Assessments
This introduction to the Assessment Tools in Blackboard assists participants in creating a simple online test by adding a pool of questions, developing a test with randomized questions, and modifying the test options.
Introduction to Communication
An overview of Blackboard's Communication Tools shows virtual participants how to post Announcements, send E-mail, set up groups, create discussion forums and add threads.
FSU's SafeAssign Manuals
Instructors, use our new FSU SafeAssign User Manuals to help you get started using SafeAssign. Note that there are 3 PDF (
) versions for your convenience:
