Blackboard FAQs
Blackboard FAQs for Faculty and Staff
Click on the links below for answers to several common questions, instructions for completing basic tasks, and other pieces of information to help you become familiar with Blackboard and its implementation at BGSU for faculty and staff.
Sections:
- Before you begin
- Exploring the Blackboard Main Page
- Managing a Course Site
- Managing an Organization Site
- Automated Enrollment Cycle
- Course Maintenance Cycle
- End of the Semester Tasks
- Blackboard at BGSU
Before you begin
- What you need to access Blackboard
- Getting an account on Blackboard
- Problems with Initial Login
- Forgotten Usernames & Passwords
- Logging in as a Guest
- Enhancements included in Blackboard 8 Upgrade
- Recommended System Requirements
- Choosing a Browser
- Suggested Plug-ins
- Browser Features to Enable
- Logging off Blackboard
Exploring the Blackboard Main Page
- What is a module?
- Getting additional modules
- Changing colors
- Capturing Web Portal Outages and Class/Organization Events
- Using Forms to Customize your View
- Set CD-ROM Drive link under Tools
- Browser Cache and How to Clear It
- Problems with Lightweight Chat and Virtual Classroom
- JAR Cache and How to Clear It
Managing a Course site on Blackboard
- My Official Class Rosters vs. Blackboard Course Shell Rosters
- Class Roster not available for Course I teach
- Automated Course Shell Creation
- No Course Shell available for Course I teach
- Automated Enrollment Cycle
- Course Maintenance Cycle
- End of the Semester Tasks
- Automated Instructor and TA Assignments
- My TA Needs Access to My Course
- Granting Access to Individuals without BGSU Accounts
- Course Shell vs. Development Shell
- Requesting a Development Shell
- Using Course Copy to Move Content from one Course Shell to another
- Combining Sections of the Same Course into One Course Shell
- Making a Course Available for Students
- Using file extensions when uploading files
- Uploading course cartridges
- Disk Quota for Courses
- Maximum File Size for Uploading
- How Students Access a Course site
- Display Variations for Students Requesting their Right to Privacy
- Not using Course Shells created for my classes
- Reordering/Deleting Courses under your Courses tab
- Creating a Copy of your Course Site
- Instructor Modifying Assigned Role
- Who do I contact to put my course on Blackboard?
- Instructor Removing Links to Course Sites on the Courses tab
- Exporting your Blackboard Course GradeBook
- Limitations when using WebEQ and MathML equation editors
- Get Error When Adding a Question to an Assessment using IE 6
- Collaboration Tools, Virtual Classroom and Lightweight Chat, Do Not Work
- Help with Blackboard for Instructors
Managing an Organization site on Blackboard
- What is an organization?
- Getting an Organization Shell
- Using file extensions when uploading files
- Disk Quota for Organizations
- Maximum File Size for Uploading
- Enrolling Members in My Organization
- How Members Access an Organization site
- Creating a Copy of My Organization site
- Help with My Blackboard for Organization Managers
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