The Center for Excellence in Instruction 

Technology Tutorials 


The following are online tutorials created to quickly get you started with some of the most commonly used instructional technology applications. 

Blackboard Help

Getting Started

How to Login (My PVCC)

Start of Semester Checklist

End of Semester Checklist

Combining multiple sections into a single Blackboard shell

Copying content in Blackboard 6.2

PVCC Blackboard Support Site

PeopleSoft (SIS) help

Faculty PowerWeb site

Entering Grades in PeopleSoft

NEW! Microsoft Office help

Word 2007

Up To Speed with Word 2007

Overview Word 2007 Course

Help and How To Word 2007

Detailed Courses Word2007

2003 Compatibility Pack - Download
Features Impacted w/ Compatibility Pack PDF

Respondus Help

Respondus - an excellent tool for online test - This pdf was developed by the VCCS and then revised by C.J. Bracken at GCC.

comming....Formatting a Test to Import into Respondus
Importing a Test into Respondus
Publishing from Respondus to a Blackboard Course
Downloading Respondus

Breeze Help

Information for Beginners

 

NEW! Blackboard 7.3 How-to User Guides
  • CONTENT AREA
    Note - 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 PDF

    Note - creating an assignment will automatically create a Gradebook Item.

    Adaptive Release
    doc*    Movie
    Tool Use PDF

    Review & User Progress doc*
    • COURSE TOOLS
      New! - course announcements can be emailed to students

      Discussion Board
      MOVIE
      Terms PDF
      Creating a Forum PDF
      Viewing the Statistics PDF

      New! - Search box is now collapsed, Forums can now be view in Tree view , User can now subscribe to whole forums for email notifications, Reply can include the quote from the original message, The new tag feature allows instructors to create and apply text labels to messages in a forum, and As a result of the new 'Read/Unread messages" feature all current messages in ongoing Discussion Boards are marked as unread.
       
    • COURSE OPTIONS
      Export and Import Course Material PDF
       
    • USER MANAGEMENT
       
    • 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 PDF
      New! - Number of Attempts PDF

      Performance Dashboard
      doc*    Movie

    All movie tutorials provided by Blackboard
    * provided by Kristen Kelly at JTCC

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