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Flagging Posts in Blackboard

Within a Forum conversation thread, you can flag posts you want to review again, later, or indicate as important.

To learn more, under the following Create Threads page,  see the “View a Thread” section.

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Setting Course Availability

The availability setting of your course determines whether or not students will be able to access your course site. A course listed as (unavailable) will not appear in the students’ course menu. You change course availability in the Course Properties menu.

To learn more refer to the Course Properties article.

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Using the Content Editor

Use the controls in the Content Editor to format text as you would in a word processing program.

To learn more, view this Content Editor article.

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Downloading and Printing a Course Roster

You can download and print a course roster of your students, by following the instructions in the article and choosing “User Information Only”.

Click the article Download full or partial data from the Grade Center, to learn more

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Listing Enrolled Users

When you need to see a list of everyone enrolled in your course.

Click the article, How to create a list of enrolled users to learn more

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Student Enrollments in Blackboard

Student enrollments are loaded in Blackboard two weeks out before the first day of class. Records are then synced with Datatel twice a day to reflect the most current registration information.

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Adding Images to Questions or Answers in Blackboard Tests

Some test questions will require students to make a visual determination between images.

  1. Go to Control Panel and select Course ToolsControl Panel and Course Tools
  2. Select Tests, Surveys and Pools.
  3. Select Tests.Tests, Surveys, and Pools
  4. Choose to edit an existing test or click Build Test.
  5. If new test, enter a Name, optional Description and Instructions, then click Submit.
  6. Select question type
  7.  Click the insert photo icon
    Insert image
  8. Select photo from file location either saved to your computer or inside course. Click Insert.
  9. You have now inserted a photo into your test question. Click Submit.

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Deploying Journals in the Content Area

You must either deploy journals to a Content Area or create a Tool Link to journals for your students to access them.

  1. Go to the Content Area where you want to deploy the journal.
  2. Click Add Interactive Tool > Journal.
  3. Select “Link to the Journals Page” to create a link to all journals or “Link to a Journal” to create a link to a specific journal (if you choose this option, select the desired journal from the list).
  4. Click Next.
  5. Enter a Name and optional Text for the link, and set options as appropriate.
  6. Click Submit. A link to either the Journals page or a specific Journal is created in the Content Area.

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Collecting Posts in a Discussion Thread in Blackboard

If a thread contains many posts, you can reduce the list with the Collect function. After you collect posts, you can filter, sort, print, and tag them. You can also use the Collect function on the forum page to gather all the posts made to different threads.

To learn more, click this link to view the article on collecting posts in a discussion thread.

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Sending Email

You can use Blackboard’s email tool to send messages to all or selected users in your course. Any replies are sent to your ACC email address (@austincc.edu).

To learn more, view this Email article.

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