Instructors Manual (PDF). Note that some features listed in the manual may not apply to our Blackboard Learn license. In particular, the Community and Content System are not available to us on our Learn licence.

Other Blackboard.com documentation and self-help resources:

Reference Centre for Faculty. This information is maintained by Blackboard, and contains instructor notes, release notes, tutorial and user documentation on the Blackboard virtual learning environment.

Knowledge Base for Faculty. This Knowledge Base is maintained by Blackboard. The Knowledge Base is a searchable area of the Blackboard Support Site that contains articles developed both by Blackboard and by its customers; article content ranges from tips and tricks to workarounds to known issues and, if applicable, fixes.

Ask Dr. C This is a question-and-answer service moderated by a group of trainers, instructional designers, project managers, support specialists, and developers within Blackboard. Faculty members can create an account on this site, and post questions for review.

Quick Tutorials
A Quick Tutorial is a mini-movie tutorial that runs in an automated fashion and includes on-screen narration on many of the Blackboard capabilities and features. To learn more about any of the capabilities listed on the site, simply click on the title link. This is a very popular resource!

Blackboard Connections (formerly CommunitySite)
Blackboard (Bb) Connections is a central hub, a town square of sorts, where Blackboard users can collaborate and share best practices, to deepen their knowledge and expertise about all things in Blackboard. To take part in Bb Connections create an account on the front page so that you can sign up for regional and special interest user groups, hear what Blackboard are up to, and provide feedback on how they’re doing.

Behind the Blackboard
The system administrator for NUIG has special access to this extranet in order to communicate with Blackboard Support. However, anyone can enroll as an instructor to gain access to MANY valuable Blackboard resources such as:
. Users Guides for Blackboard;
. Hardware and Software Recommendations;
. Forums and ListServes (join a Blackboard list serve to be connected to your peers);
. Self-Study Materials (such as the Instructor’s Manual); and Building Blocks & Course Cartridges Catalogs

Blackboard Extensions
Add new functionality or integrate other products into Blackboard using Extensions.

Blackboard
This page was last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011