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Blackboard Best Practices
Looking to streamline your course development? Want to make your Blackboard course more effective and efficient? Check out these 7 Best Practice Tips for Building a Blackboard Course. These tips deal with simplifying your navigation, progressive course building, touring your own course and much more.
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Time to Drop the Digital Dropbox & Use Blackboard's Assignment Manager
The Assignment Manager allows instructors to create assignments and add them to a Content Area. They will have their name, point value, and a description. Instructors also have the option of including attachments to an assignment. Students complete the attachment in a separate file and send it back to the instructor via the assignment interface.
The following is a breakdown of the Assignment Manager versus the Digital Drop Box:
| Features | Assignment Manager | Digital Drop Box |
| Time & Date Stamp | X | X |
| Comments Field | X | X |
| Instructions | X | |
| Secure Instructor Notes | X | |
| Availability Dates | X | |
| Multiple File Submissions | X | |
| Batch Download** | X | |
| Gradebook Integration | X | |
| Organized by Assignment** | X | |
| Organized by Date submitted | X | X |
| Send file to select/all users | X | X |
For more information on the Assignment Manager visit the Blackboard Software Guides.
Bb Spring Cleaning?
A few things to help you get your Spring semester started.
Combo #5 - Be sure to let us know which sections and courses you would like combined for Spring.
Making Copies! - If you need to roll over any course information to the current semester, you have the power. Just use our course copying guides. ***Remember your Spring 2005 courses will disappear after the first week of the Spring 2006 semester .
Get Refreshed - Need to clean out the cobwebs of "Now how do I add that content item?" or interested in taking your course up a notch? Why not sign up for some one-on-one Blackboard Training.
University & Department
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If you have questions about the SHSU Computer Services, please contact us at:
Computer Services
SHSU Box 2149
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas 77341-2149
Phone: (936) 294-1950
Email: helpdesk@shsu.edu
Fax: (936) 294-1231