Author: Tasha Hussey

Use the Blackboard contacts tool to add profile information about yourself and other staff for students. You can provide information about office hours, phone numbers, and other links to help students find the people who have important roles in your course.

To learn more, view this Create or edit a contact article.

When you paste content from Microsoft Word into a text box in Blackboard, you often see differences in formatting. Using Paste from Word will help preserve your original formatting.

Reference the Can I paste text from Microsoft® Word article to learn more.

Contact Support

This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology.

If you need assistance incorporating this article in your course, please contact an Educational Technologist.

With basic adaptive release rules, you can add and edit one rule for a single piece of content. This single rule may have multiple criteria. With advanced adaptive release, you can add multiple rules to a single content item.

To learn more, view the Rules for Releasing Content article.

Contact Support

This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology.

If you have found an error in this article, or if you need assistance incorporating this article into your course, please contact the Educational Technologist.

Module Pages encompass a wide range of Blackboard applications such as Calendars, Tasks, Dictionaries, and Announcements. You can only add your own content to module pages. These modules can help students stay organized.

To learn more, go to Add Course Module Page.

Contact Support

This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology.

If you have found an error in this article, or if you need assistance incorporating this article into your course, please contact the Educational Technologist.

Statistics tracking compiles a record of how often an item is accessed and by whom. Item statistics provide detailed usage information about your content, such as how many times students viewed an item and when it was accessed. You can enable statistics tracking at any time, and begin collecting data from that moment on.

To learn more, view the Statistics Tracking and Reports article.

Contact Support

This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology.

If you have found an error in this article, or if you need assistance incorporating this article into your course, please contact the Educational Technologist.

Mashups allow you to add social media content from the web directly into your Blackboard course site. Wherever you can add and format text in your course, you can add social media from other websites to your content. Mashups can appear in test questions, discussions, assignments, or as a standalone piece of content. You can also add a clip of a movie or a photo in a journal, blog, or wiki.

To learn more, view this What is a Mashup? article.

Contact Support

This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology.

If you have found an error in this article, or if you need assistance incorporating this article into your course, please contact the Educational Technologist.

Item statistics provide detailed usage information about your content, such as how many times students viewed an item and when it was accessed. You can enable statistics tracking at any time, and begin collecting data from that moment on. If students access an item before you enable statistics tracking, their access isn’t recorded.

[ht_message style=”alert” title=”” show_icon=”true” id=”” class=”” style=”” ]If students are unenrolled, their data is deleted from all course statistics. To retain their statistics, change their availability to No rather than unenroll them. [/ht_message]

Statistics tracking is a type of course report for individual content items. To obtain course reports on overall user activity as well as activity in content areas, forums, and groups, go to Control Panel > Evaluation > Course Reports.

Enable Statistics Tracking

1. Go to the item you want to track (e.g., a quiz), click the action button (to the right of the item’s title), and select Statistics Tracking (On/Off).
2. Select On, then click Submit.
3. “Enabled: Statistics Tracking” appears after the item name.

Viewing Statistics Tracking Reports

After enabling statistics tracking for an item, follow these steps to view the report:

1. Go to the item for which you would like to view the Statistics Tracking Report, click the action button (to the right of the item’s title), then select View Statistics Report.
2. To the right of the Content Usage Statistics title, click the action button, then select Run.
3. In the Report Specifications section, select a format for the report (e.g. PDF, HTML, Excel or Word).
4. Select a Start Date and an End Date for the report.
5. The report pulls data for all students by default. Use the Select Users list only if you want to narrow the report to specific student(s). To select multiple students, hold down the CTRL (PC) or Command (Mac) key as you click on multiple names.
6. Click Submit.
7. The report opens in your chosen format in a new window. You can also choose to download and/or run a new report.

Contact Support

This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology.

If you have found an error in this article , or if you need assistance incorporating this article into your course, please contact the Faculty Instructional Support Specialists.

You can add files, images, audio, and video to the content in your course which can be uploaded from your desktop or a cloud based source.  Files saved to your content can be edited, removed or deleted.  Changes to file titles can also be made.  Adding Files, audio, images and video to your content enhances the learning experience in your in your course.

To learn more, view Add Files, Audio, Images and Video article.

Contact Support

This article was created and is maintained by the Office of Academic Technology.

If you have found an error in this article, or if you need assistance incorporating this article into your course, please contact the Educational Technologist.