city colleges of chicago

1. Getting Started!
Blackboard Course Delivery™
Essentials Workshop Bb 9.1
City Colleges of Chicago

2. Learning Objectives
 What’s New in Blackboard 9.1
 Blackboard Instructors Course
http://ccc.blackboard.com/

3. Blackboard Instructors Course
 Blackboard Instructors Course includes:

Training Materials(online tutorials, handouts, and
face-to-face trainings)

Discussion Boards

Faculty Resources
Blackboard Instructors Course 7.1
http://ccc.blackboard.com

4. What’s New in Blackboard 9.1
 Improved Interface
o
Drag and Drop Feature
o
Drop Down Menus
o
Content Reordering
 Edit Mode
o
Easy Management of Course
o
Quickly Access Student view

5. What’s New in Blackboard 9.1
 Announcements
o
Instructors can drag and drop
o
Email
 Assignments
o
Deploy assignments to all students or to a
group of students
 Allows instructors to assign a single grade, override a group
grade, and assign single student a grade
 Test, Surveys, and Questions
o
Instructors can reorder questions in a test or
survey using drag and drop feature

6. What’s New in Blackboard 9.1
 Improved Content Management
o
Embedded Editing Tools
o
Mashups(Multimedia)
o
Content can be Copied or Moved to New
Area/Course
o
Empty Course Menu Items are
Automatically Hidden from Students
 Inline Confirmations
o
Confirmations now appear on the same
page

7. What’s New in Blackboard 9.1
 Blog/Wikis and Journals
o
Allows students to share ideas
 With each other
 With the instructor
o
The Journal replaces the Electric Board
for Student/Instructor Contact
o
Blog replaces the Student Homepage

8. What’s New in Blackboard 9.1
 Files
 Groups
o
Instructors can create any number of
groups at once
 Students can be assigned
o Randomly
o Manually
o Students can self-select

9. Login to Blackboard 9.1
Login to the staging server to
access Blackboard 9.1
http://cccstaging.blackboard.com
/

10. Login to Blackboard 9.1
Login to the staging server to
access Blackboard 9.1
http://cccstaging.blackboard.com
/