Blackboard

Blackboard Learn is the University of Alabama’s Learning Management System (LMS).

With Blackboard, instructors deliver course content such as PDFs, images, and videos; as well as assignments and tests to students which can be graded within Blackboard. Discussion boards, email, and course messages provide a means for conversation between students, and with instructors and TAs.

Upcoming Blackboard Workshops
Register for Workshops Here

Preparing to Use Blackboard

Tests and Testing Tips

Creating Tests in Blackboard
Creating Tests in Blackboard webinar (recorded Mar 25, 2020)
Creating Extended Time or Make-Up Exams in Blackboard (ODS Accommodations)
Testing Tips for Instructors
Testing Tips for Instructors (video)
Testing Tips for Students
Importing Testing Services Results into Blackboard Learn Grade Center
Copy a Test Between Blackboard Courses
Test Security with Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor
Respondus Test Management Tool (PC Only)

The Blackboard Grade Center

Blackboard Advanced for Instructors – Setting Up the Grade Center (video)
Download a Copy of the Grade Center from Blackboard
Hide Grade Center Columns from Students
Hide Grade Center Columns from the Instructor
Blackboard Grading Schemas
Importing Testing Services Results into Blackboard Learn’s Grade Center
Using the Attendance Tool
Entering Midterm or Final Grades in Blackboard Grade Center

Blackboard and myBama

Importing Final and Midterm Grades from Blackboard into MyBama
Assigning Non-Attendance Grade Reason in MyBama
Non-Attendance Grade Requirements (from Registrar)

Blackboard Features

Creating Assignments
Inline Grading with BB Annotate
Using the Attendance Tool
Change Availability and Due Dates with Date Management Tool
Create a Rubric
Create a Rubric Evaluation Report
Embed a Twitter Feed in a Blackboard Course
Hide Courses in the My Courses Module
Set a Course Entry Point
Submission Receipts in Blackboard
Monitor Student Success with The Blackboard Retention Center
Using the Blackboard Calendar
Blackboard Calendar and Notifications (Video)
Communication Features in Blackboard Learn webinar (Recorded Mar 27, 2020)
Blackboard’s Text Message and Email Notification Settings
Add a Zoom Meeting to Your BBL Course
Add a VoiceThread Assignment to your BBL Course

The Blackboard Instructor App
Blackboard Browser Checker
Clear Your Cache (CIT Video)

Blackboard Ally

Blackboard Ally for LMS helps make digital course content more accessible by automatically providing alternative formats (such as semantic HTML, audio, ePub, and electronic Braille) and providing instructor feedback and guidance on fixing accessibility issues in a course.

Ally for LMS Help for Students
Ally for LMS Help for Instructors

Downloading Student Work from Blackboard

LMS Retention Policy

LMS Course Retention Policy & FAQ
How to Back Up Blackboard Content as an Instructor
How to Back Up Blackboard Content as a Student

Blackboard Integrations

Blackboard Integration Request Guidelines

Collaborate Ultra Synchronous Video Conferencing
Gradescope for Grading Hand-written Assignments
Hypothes.is for Collaborative Annotation
Packback Questions Online Discussion Platform
Panopto Lecture Capture
Turnitin Plagiarism Detector and Feedback Studio
Turning Technologies Interactive Polling
VoiceThread for Asynchronous Collaboration and Interaction

Blackboard Tutorials for Students