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Welcome to Blackboard 8
Grade Center
TheGrade Center is dynamic, flexible and is an interactive tool with a Web 2.0 interface. The Grade Center replaces the Gradebook in previous Blackboard versions.
- Welcome to Blackboard 8 Movie
- Overview
- New Features**
- Getting Started provided by Blackboard
- Adding Grade Columns**
- Downloading Grade Data**
- Entering Grades**
- Using SmartView to Manually Enter Grades for a Single Item**
- Clearning Assessment Attempts**
- Customizing the Grade Center Movie
Content Area
Content Areas (i.e. Course Documents) can be customized by changing their names through the Control Panel in Manage Course Menu.
Note: "Content Collection" is the new name for "Content System."
- Assignments - How to create an Assignment
Note: Creating an assignment will automatically create a Gradebook Item. - Adaptive Release * Movie
- Post a Syllabus
- Tool Use
- Review & User Progress *
Course Tools
Course announcements can be e-mailed to students
New Discussion Board Features:
- Search box is collapsible
- View forums through the Tree View or a List View
- Discussion forums can be subscribed to
- Replies can include the original message quote
- Text label tags can be created and applied to forum messages
- Messages are all marked as unread
Course Options
Assessment
- Movie * - Create online, automatically-scored assessments and surveys. Question types include Calculated Formula, Calculated Numeric, Hotspot, Jumbled Sentence, Likert Scale, True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, Ordering, Matching, Fill-in-the-Blank, Short Answer, Essay, File Upload, and Binary Choice.
- Extra Credit
- Number of Attempts
- Performance Dashboard * Movie
- Create a Test from an existing Pool and Deploy it
Test/Pool Manager
Accessibility
SafeAssign
Reusable Objects
All movie tutorials provided by Blackboard
* provided by Kristen Kelly at JTCC
** provided by Virginia Community College System
(Ashley Leslie, Jamie Sheltrone)
