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Please send suggestions for more help resources to Kristen Colebank at kristen.colebank@easternwv.edu.

Blackboard Help and Resources

A convenient list of online help files, documents, and videos to help instructors utilize Blackboard features and tools.

When reading Blackboard Help documents, please remember that Eastern's version of Blackboard is "Original Course View." Disregard help instructions that refer to "ULTRA."

Organizing Materials and Content

• VIDEO: Course List Management
• VIDEO: Setting Your Course Entry Page

Using the Discussion Board

• Blackboard Help: Discussions
• VIDEO: Grading Discussions with a Rubric

Using Rubrics

• Blackboard Help: Rubrics
• VIDEO: Creating Rubrics
• VIDEO: Grading Discussions with a Rubric

Blackboard Tests

• Blackboard Help: Create Tests and Surveys
• Blackboard Help: Question Types
• VIDEO: Test Banks and Pools
• VIDEO: Test Editing
• VIDEO: Test Options
• DOCUMENT: Blackboard Test Results and Feedback Options

Results Center and Grading

• DOCUMENT: Managing Results Center Columns
• VIDEO: Management Using Column Organization, Categories, and Smart Views
• DOCUMENT: Using Weighted Columns to Calculate Course Grades
• VIDEO: Using Results Center Categories to Manage Old Assignments
• VIDEO: Grading Discussions with a Rubric
• VIDEO: Grading a Writing Assignment
• DOCUMENT: Providing Audio Feedback When Grading

Create Engaging Course Materials

• VIDEO: Adding Images to Blackboard Text Areas
• VIDEO: Create Audio-Enhanced PowerPoint Lectures
• VIDEO: Adding Audio Lectures in Blackboard Using Medial
• VIDEO: Demonstration on How Students Can Use Medial
• DOCUMENT: Help Guide for Students Completing Audio/Video Submissions

Big Blue Button - Web Conferencing and Recording within Blackboard (watch these videos in order)

• VIDEO: Creating a Course Link for a Big Blue Button Meeting/Recording
• VIDEO: Enabling Flash in Chrome Browser to use Big Blue Button
• VIDEO: Joining a Real-Time Big Blue Button Meeting
• VIDEO: Demonstration of a Real-Time WebCam Meeting in Big Blue Button
• VIDEO: Using Big Blue Button to Make a Video

Respondus LockDown Browser

• WEBSITE LINK: Student Resources for Installing and Using Respondus LockDown Browser
• DOCUMENT: Instructor QuickStart Guide to Respondus LockDown Browser
• DOCUMENT: Syllabus Language for Respondus LockDown Browser
• VIDEO: Preparing a Blackboard Exam for Use with Respondus LockDown Browser
• RESPONDUS HELP: Additional Instructor Resources for Respondus LockDown Browser

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