Blackboard at UNO
Tip: Instructors, please use "Hide Score from Gradebook Calculation" with caution!
When selecting Blackboard exam settings, this DOES NOT mean ‘hide score from students until a future time’…it means ‘hide score from instructor forever’.
This setting creates a ‘Self-Test’ for students’ study purposes.
The rationale for this setting is to give the students a self-assessment, a preliminary test to make sure their knowledge of the subject matter is on the right track. The scores are not stored anywhere in the Blackboard database, so the students can confidently take a self-test without concern that the instructor will see how they performed on the test.
The grade is only revealed to the student, and only once, upon completion of the test.
There is no way that the instructor can ever see the grades to assessments deployed with this setting in place.
Multimedia Files in Blackboard:
Instructors click here for media server instructions
Known Issues :
Blackboard does not currently recognize Office 2007 file types.
Please click here to view documentation on how to configure Office 2007 to save in the Office 2003 file format to work within Blackboard.
Blackboard Tip:
If you are uploading files to Blackboard, or attaching files to a Blackboard Discussion Board post, or are an Instructor creating Assignments and Assessments in Blackboard, please remember the following naming conventions:
- Use only letters, numbers and underscores (_) in filenames and content names.
- Do include extensions on filename. The valid extension for a Word document is .doc or .docx,, PowerPoint is .ppt or .pptx and Excel is .xls or .xlsx.
- Don't use periods anywhere else in your filenames except before the extension.
- Don't use spaces, commas, pound signs (#), question marks, equal signs, dashes or any other special characters in your filenames, Assignment names or Assessment names.
Web Tutorials:
Documentation:
This process is daily during the first four weeks of each semester. After four weeks, the process is run twice weekly.
Step One: Registrar enters data into PeopleSoft:
- Semester Courses
- Instructor of Record Assignments
- Student Enrollment
Step Two: Each morning, the registrar PeopleSoft data is sent to UCC to update the Centralized Account Management System (CAMS)
Step Three: Each day, when the CAMS update is complete, the up-to-date registrar data is loaded into Blackboard.
PeopleSoft is not directly connected to Blackboard. There is a 24 hour timeframe between changes to Registrar data and when those changes are placed into Blackboard. If an Instructor of Record assignment is made today, the instructor will be placed into that Blackboard course tomorrow. If a student enrolls in a course today, the student will be placed into the corresponding Blackboard course tomorrow.
This entire process is automated and there is not a way to manually circumvent it without introducing errors into the process.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO AOL USERS:
America Online (AOL) users may not be able access Blackboard properly using the browser supplied with AOL.
The only compatible AOL browsers are version 5.0, 6.0 or 7.0 with Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher also installed on your computer. Do not use earlier versions of AOL's browser, as you will have difficulty using many of Blackboard’s tools.
To access Blackboard, AOL users must download a standard (or stand-alone) version of either Netscape Navigator (Communicator) or Internet Explorer. (AOL sometimes refers to browsers other than their own as "external browsers.")
Follow these procedures to access Blackboard:
- Download either Netscape or Internet Explorer (see chart above for supported versions based on the operating system you are using).
- Install the downloaded browser software on your computer. (Installation instructions are provided at Netscape and Microsoft's download sites.)
- After you've installed your new browser successfully, restart your computer.
- Sign on to AOL as you normally do, but stay at the AOL Main (Welcome) page.
- Keep AOL running in the background and start your new stand-alone browser (either Netscape or Internet Explorer). The stand-alone browser will use your AOL Internet connection.
Note: If you have problems getting your new browser to work with AOL, check out the Member Services area of AOL. Click on "Internet and World Wide Web." Double-click "Using other browsers with AOL." for further information.
Instructors: Important Information about Course Combination Requests:
It is important that you request combination of your courses or sections before adding any content to the courses.
When courses are combined, the automated process disables the original course shells and creates a new blank course shell that has all of the students from all requested sections enrolled therein. Neither original shell will exist anymore, there will be one big new course containing all the students.
Therefore, if an instructor has added content to the original shell(s), they will no longer be able to access it after the combine process.
If you have already added content but would still like to combine shells, first please export the content as per the instructions. After you have exported the content from the shell(s) to be combined, please send email to blackboard@uno.edu letting us know and we will create the combined shell. Then, you would re-import the content into the new, combined shell.
Getting Help
How do my students get help with Blackboard problems?
Email a UNO Blackboard Administrator
Blackboard Student Online Manual
CC Help Desk: 280-HELP (4357) (Computer Center Room 101-A)
Email the UNO Help Desk
Where can instructors go for assistance with Blackboard
problems?
Email a UNO Blackboard Administrator
Blackboard Instructor Online Manual
UCC Help Desk: 280-HELP (4357) (Computer Center Room 101-A)
Email the UNO Help Desk |
