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First Day™ Blackboard Course Set-up: Pearson Content

As an instructor for a First Day/Inclusive Access course, you will need to add the First Day Course Materials tool link in Blackboard so that students can opt-out of the program if they wish, during the designated period of time.

Pearson-specific First Day course materials such as the eBook and associated courseware, including assignments, quizzes, and other assessments will also be accessed by the students through this tool link.

Watch the tutorial video below and follow the steps demonstrated to create your First Day Course Materials tool link for your Pearson content.

Additional instructor and student support regarding First Day Inclusive Access can be found at Barnes & Noble’s customer care website.

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Syncing a Blackboard Course Section with McGraw Hill Connect LTIA

Linking your Blackboard course with Connect using McGraw Hill’s LTI Advantage integration is easy to do and will provide you and your students with a more efficient and secure online experience.

This link is available under the Build Content menu within a Blackboard content area and is titled McGraw Hill Connect LTIA.

Build Content menu, McGraw Hill Connect LTIA

Watch the video below and read the instructor guide to pair your McGraw Hill Connect account with a Blackboard course section.

 

If you need assistance or have questions,  instructors can schedule a meeting with McGraw Hill’s implementation team.

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Accessing Respondus 4.0 with ACC’s Virtual Desktop

Need to print a copy of a test from your Blackboard course? ACC’s Virtual Desktop allows you to work remotely when you need access to the ACC network.  The virtual desktop includes the Respondus 4.0 application – an authoring tool used to create, upload, manage, and retrieve exams.

NOTE: The authoring tool is currently available to PC users only.  For Mac users, Respondus is accessible to faculty on the Virtual Desktop.

View the tutorial video below and follow the steps to retrieve an exam, survey, or pool from one of your Blackboard courses.

Create and Publish Tests

Additional Respondus Resources

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Qwickly Attendance – Custom Statuses

Setting a Custom Course Status in Qwickly Attendance

Qwickly Attendance provides power and flexibility with attendance statuses. Three attendance statuses are built in (Present, Absent, and Excused) and others can be created for all courses or individual courses. Each status has an absence weight and points attached to provide basic options like late or tardy all the way to building complex participation scales. This enables faculty to set items as partial credit, award bonuses for going to study sessions and create participation scale (i.e. 1-5 points per day).

Click the article link and view the video below to learn more about creating custom course statuses.

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Qwickly Attendance – Integration & Grading in Blackboard Grade Center

Integrating Qwickly Attendance in Blackboard Grade Center & Grading Attendance

Qwickly Attendance features direct integration with Blackboard’s Grade Center.  Define your grade parameters and have Qwickly Attendance keep the corresponding grade column up to date throughout the entire semester.

View the Grade Center Integration article and watch the companion videos below to learn more.

Integration

Grading

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Qwickly Attendance – Taking Attendance by Groups or with a Timer

Taking Attendance by Groups or with a Check-In Timer in Qwickly Attendance

Qwickly Attendance offers a variety of ways to take attendance: take attendance manually using a list of students, click through students one by one, or start a student check-in session in which students can check in on their own devices.

Attendance by Groups or Sections

Qwickly Attendance allows instructors to take attendance for select groups or sections of students in a course if it has been set up in such a way.  This feature allows instructors to keep attendance when a single Blackboard course is used to maintain the enrollment of 2 or more separate course sections.

Click the article link and view the video below (cue video to 10:51) to learn more about how to take attendance by group or section.

Using a Check-In Timer

Checking in allows instructors to skip manually taking attendance and gives students credit for being in class.  Qwickly Attendance allows Instructors to set a timer for a student check-in attendance session.  When running the check-in session, this timer will be displayed on the instructor screen.

Click the article link and view the video (cue video to 0:33) below to learn more about how to enable the timer during student check-in.

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Qwickly Attendance – Getting Started

Getting Started with Qwickly Attendance

Qwickly Attendance enables faculty to take attendance that is automatically graded in the Blackboard Grade Center. Instructors can take attendance using an attendance list on screen or allow students to check in on their own browser.

Follow the steps in this brief Setup Guide as well as the Course Settings Overview and watch the First Time Setup video below to get started with the basics of Qwickly Attendance.

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Qwickly Attendance – Student View & Adding Comments

Viewing Attendance as a Student & Adding Comments to Records in Qwickly Attendance

Student View

Students have a unique view of the attendance screen, allowing them to see their own record, helping them stay on track of any attendance policies. Of course, they are not able to see the record of any other student.

Click the article link and view the video below to learn more about how the Student View display.

Adding Comments

Qwickly Attendance allows instructors to add comments to Attendance Records. Comments are set to private by default.

Click the article link and view the video below (cue the video at 2:01) to learn more about how to add comments to a student attendance record.

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Qwickly Course Tools – Sending an Email

How to send an email using Qwickly Course Tools

Qwickly Course Tools increases the efficiency of communicating with members of multiple courses as well as simplifying tasks that need to be done repetitively in each course an instructor teaches.

  1. From your Blackboard Ultra Navigation page, click Tools from the menu pane and select Qwickly Course Tools.
    Blackboard Ultra Navigation Tools page
  2. Select Send Email (A) from the Course Tools list. Select the course(s) you’d like to email in the left hand course list (B). Choose whether you would like to send the email to everyone or a specific role(s). Enter an email subject and compose the body of the email. Add an attachment if needed (C). You can choose to send yourself a copy of the email as well. Once complete, click Send.Send Email Qwickly Tool

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Zoom Meeting: Preassigning Meeting Participants to Breakout Rooms

As a meeting host, you can split your meeting participants into breakout rooms when scheduling the meeting. This can be useful if you already know how you want to split up your participants.

You can also manage your breakout rooms during the meeting.

The tutorial video below demonstrates the following aspects of pre assigning breakout rooms:

  • Creating preassigned breakout rooms
  • Importing a CSV file for preassigned breakout rooms
  • Deploying preassigned breakout rooms in a meeting

Supplemental Resources Document:  PPT tutorial slideshow of the steps demonstrated in the instructional video.

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