• Introduction
• Course Management
  • Course Settings
  • Content Areas
  • User Management
• Assessments
• Grade Center
• Tools

Managing Course Activities

After setting up your course, you can manage and carry out a wide range of class activities in your Blackboard site.

Add and organize course content
You can upload a syllabus or other materials, such as Word documents, PowerPoint files or even short multimedia clips to content areas in Blackboard. You can also organize material in folders and copy or move material in your course site or to another course site.

Copy material from a previous semester
If you created a course site when you taught a class in a previous semester, you can copy the contents of the course to your new site.

Give and receive assignments
The Assignments feature allows you to easily manage electronic submission of documents for grades. Students can submit an assignment and you can collect and comment on the documents using Blackboard's Grade Center feature. You can also send feedback and corrected documents back to students.

Use the Grade Center
Blackboard's Grade Center is an online grade book that can be used to enter and track student grades. It includes features such as weighted grades and custom display of point or letter grades.

Use a Discussion Board
Instructors can set up forums where students can post comments and documents to engage in discussions or engage in peer review of work.

Create online surveys or assessments
You can create online tests and surveys using a wide variety of question types, such as true/false, multiple choice, matching and short answer. Blackboard can automatically grade assessments and place scores for tests in the Grade Center.