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Learn how to utilize the Blackboard System to distribute accessible files to
your students, securely!
By Kamran Rasul ([email protected])
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About us
What is Blackboard?
How we use it?
Demonstration
Resources
Questions & Answers
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About us
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What is Blackboard?
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How we use it?
• Kurzweil files• PDFs (articles, books, notes)• Word/text formatted files• Audio files• Scanned notes• Publishers’ electronic copy(s)
(Multiple files are compressed and delivered)
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How we use it?
1. First contact your on-campus Blackboard administrator to set you up
2. Create the course [ACCESSING HIGHER GROUNDS (DSS-901- F2009]
3. Login/Password
4. Very Important: Set restrictions | Select Control Panel | Select Manage Course Menu | Recommended user modify not remove.
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How we use it?
6. Select Enroll User
7. Select List/Modify Users
8. Select Course Document | Select Edit View (located top right corner)
9. Select Add Item or Folder (these can be combined)
10. Set Adaptive Release restrictions ASAP.
11. Adaptive Release | Scroll to Membership | Select Browse | Pop up window will open
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How we use it?
12. Use Search options to find student(s) | Select Submit (top right corner) | Window will close
13. Returns you back to Adaptive Release options screen | Scroll to the bottom of the screen | Select Submit
14. A message will appears “The Rule was updated successfully” | Click OK
15. When you return back to Course Documents | Edit View “Enabled: Adaptive Release “ will now appear below the file name
16. Use Advanced Release option to remove all Adaptive Release messages
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Resources
On-line Digital Downloads
• Bookshare, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive and etc…
E-book readers
• Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, Plastic Logic and etc..
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Questions & Answers