Blackboard dashboard

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Blackboard Dashboard

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Blackboard Dashboard NavigationBlackboard Channels / Blocks

• Tools• My Announcements• My Courses

Blackboard Tabs• My Institution• Courses• System Admin

Administrative Access • System Admin

Personalization• Personalizing Individual Blocks• Personalize Page

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Blackboard Dashboard Navigation:Navigation Tabs

Tools Block Announcements Block My Courses Block

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Blackboard Dashboard Navigation:

The Blackboard Tools block is located on the Dashboard / Landing page after being logged into the Blackboard.

The Tools listed in this block can vary per client.

The Most commonly used Tools is the My Grades tool.

My Grades will show the student their Grades for their all their current courses. These can be sorted by All Courses or Last Graded.

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Blackboard Home

Discussion Posts

Updates

My Grades

Retention Center

Calendar

More Tools

Messages

People

Spaces

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My Announcements are sorted by Course Name

The latest announcements posted in the course is displayed here

Cannot access course by clicking the course name.

Can access full announcement by clicking the > item name

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My Courses can appear differently for Instructors & Students

Instructors may have 2 sections “Courses where you are: Instructor” & “Courses where you are: Student”

Courses where you are: Instructor are courses that they are teaching

Course where you are: Student are courses where they have the student role.

Students will show “Courses where you are: Student”

To access courses simply click on the bolded course title.

Some clients show (not currently available) Instructors will see this, students typically do not. If you see this next to an instructors course, it has not been made available to the

students yet

The number of Tabs we see in Blackboard depends on the level of Access a client is willing to give us. It also depends on the schools Blackboard setup. They may have links to other Learning Resources on the schools website In this Example we have 3 Tabs:

My Institution (aka the Home tab) Courses System Admin

My Institution, also known as Home tab, will take a user back to the main


Courses Tab – Displays a complete list of the courses the user is enrolled in.

System Admin tab is for Blackboard Administrators and Help Desk Agents. This tab

allows Help Desk Agents to look up users & course enrollments.

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System Administration Tab

This tab is our primary way of accessing the course information to troubleshoot any Course issue for an Instructor or Student. What you see on this tab depends on what the Client gives us access to. Please note that even though there may be more options to click here, not all of these will give us access to the items indicated.

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The primary sections of the System Admin page that we will work with is the Users & Courses sections.

The Users Section allows us to Search the Blackboard System for users.

The Courses section allows us to search the Blackboard System for courses.

To search by User click “User” within the User box

To search by Course(s) click “Courses” within the Courses box

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Users Search options: Username – you can search by all or part of the users school Username. First Name – you can search by all or part of the users First Name (Caution,

if the first name is a very common one you will get A LOT of results to sift through.)

Last Name – you can search by all or part of the users Last Name. (Caution, if the last name is a very common one you will get A LOT of results to sift through.)

You can also search by Email address, Student ID and the Data Source ID. The most common ways to search for a user in Blackboard is by their name or username.

Enter your search criteria here and press Enter or click Go when ready.

Select the criteria you wish to search by

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Course Search Options: Course ID – you can search by all or part of the course ID (Course ID’s usually do

not have any spaces separating the characters, fillers are usually used such as _ or - .)

Course Name – you can search by All or part of the Course Name Course Description – you can search by all or part of the Course Description. Instructor – you can search by all or part of the instructors name Data Source Key – if you or the user knows this information, it is a viable search

option. Term – you can use the Term search to narrow down your results

Enter your search criteria here, Click Go or press enter to submit.

Select the criteria you wish to search by

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Users can personalize their Blackboard interface to some limits.

Hover over the block header. Click the cross

arrows and drag the selected

block to another location on the

page. Unclick to drop in new location.

Click the down arrow to

collapse the box to display only

the box header.

Click the arrow pointing to the

right to expand the box to show

everything in that box.

Hover over the block header. Click the gear icon. To select

which content is displayed in the

box.

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Hover over the block header. Click the gear icon. To select

which content is displayed in the

box.

Anything Checked here, will display in

the My Courses Box

Selecting the Select All box to the left of the course – will select all the check boxes

on the right.Deselecting the Select All will remove All check marks to the right for that course.

Select All checked

Select All unchecked

Click Submit at either the top right or bottom right corner to Save changes.

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From the Blackboard Dashboard click the Personalize Page button to Adjust the theme used in the way the Home tab is displayed.

Click on the desired theme and click Submit to save changes.


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Review: Blackboard Dashboard NavigationBlackboard Channels / Blocks

Tools, Announcements & My CoursesBlackboard Tabs

My Institution, Courses, System AdminAdministrative Access

Users and Courses search optionsPersonalization

Personalizing individual Channels / BlocksPersonalizing the My Institution Tab theme & layout

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