#blackboard tips

How to Find Online Students’ Last Date of Participation

MCC instructors must report a “last date of participation” in conjunction with any failing grades. But how do online instructors determine the last time a student participated? (more…)

Blackboard Tip: Calculate Final Grades

Your “Total (External Grade)” column should reflect your course’s final grade. To make sure it’s accurate at the end of the quarter, make sure to follow either of these two options for calculating zeros in your gradebook.

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Blackboard Tip: Avoid Bringing Last Quarter’s Discussion with Course Copy

This tip comes with a bit of a mea culpa: I’ve given out some slightly misleading information about the course copy process and now I want to make sure that I get the record set straight.

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By default, Blackboard courses are only open between their first and final meeting dates. But instructors may want to change that to allow students to see final grades and feedback. Here’s how.

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Blackboard Quick Tip: ‘Zero Out’ Grades for Accurate Final Totals

Remember: Blackboard doesn’t automatically treat ungraded items as zeros, so a “no grade” for an activity doesn’t count against a student. (more…)

Blackboard Tip: Prepare for Winter

Here’s our resource roundup for Blackboard quarter preparation. We’ll be sending out resources via email when we inform MCC instructors that their blank winter courses are available, but if you’d like one-on-one help getting ready, email [email protected] or fill out the form below. We also have training scheduled this week and every Friday until Thanksgiving.

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Blackboard Tip: Get Winter Courses Ready with Course Copy

Blackboard’s course copy process is pretty easy, as long as you remember that it works in the opposite way as ANGEL’s — you should “push out” content from the template course to the blank course rather than “pull in” from within the blank course. (more…)

Blackboard Resource: Preparing Your Course

Criminal justice instructor Greg Meyer put together some great presentations for faculty training. Here’s an overview on setting up your course before the quarter begins.

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