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Blackboard Online Course Design – Using Assignments and Gradebook

 

 

Description

The Assignments workshop is most appropriate for faculty who:

  • are experienced in using the basic BlackBoard functions covered in the Quickstart workshop

  • wish to extend and enhance their courses with interactive assignments and Gradebook reporting features

Objectives

  • creating assignments using the Assignment Manager vs. the Drop Box

  • configuring the Gradebook

  • entering student grades

  • adding offline or non-academic activities to the Gradebook

  • providing access to online grade review by your students

  • exporting the Gradebook to Excel

  • weighting grades

  • importing Testing Center grades into your Gradebook

 

Prerequisites

Each participant should confirm that they have a login name and password for BlackBoard prior to the workshop (this information should be the same as the Novell login). If there are difficulties, please call the Help Desk at 360-650-3333 or Web Services by email