My Classes are not Showing up on Blackboard!
How Do I Change my Bb Password?
How Do I Remove Courses from my course list?
How Do I Print Multiple PPT slides to a single page?
How Do I Submit a Turnatin Assignment?
For Faculty:
Can I Get a Instructor Manual for Blackboard?
How Do I Get a Bb course for my class?
How Do I Make my Blackboard Courses "Available" to Students?
How Do I Copy Course Content from one course to another? (PDF version)
How Do I Combine Multiple Sections of my courses into one course?
My classes are not showing up on Blackboard!
It is possible that either:
A. Your instructor is not using Blackboard.
B. Your instructor is using Blackboard, but has not made the Bb course "available" for students to see.
C. You registered late, (class rosters are updated twice daily during the Add/Drop period of each semester.) If your course does not appear within 24 hours during after this time,
Submit a ticket or call 610.436.3065
D. If you are faculty please Submit a ticket or call 610.436.3341 or 610.436.2194
How do I change my Password?
To change your Password click on "Personal Information" in the "Tools" box located under the welcome tab, after you login. Then choose "Change Password". Change your password and click "Submit." You will then be asked to confirm the changes,then click "OK."
How do I remove courses from my course list?
Courses cannot be removed, but you can hide old courses
from your current course menu.
1. Click on the Pencil Icon within your "My Courses" module on your Blackboard page.
2. To remove the course from your display, uncheck the boxes
under the "Display Courses" and "Display Annoucements" columns next to the name of the course
in the "Modify Courses" List section.
3. Scroll down and Click the "Submit" button and your done.
How do I print multiple PPT slides to a single page?
1. Open the PowerPoint presentation.
2. RIGHT click somewhere in the middle of one of the PowerPoint slides.
(Do NOT use the Print option from the menu bar at the top of the screen)
3. From the drop down menu that appears, select "Print". The printing choices pop-up box will appear. 4. Near the bottom left side of this box, next to "Print What" click on the arrow next to "Slides" and change it to "Handouts".
5. Next, change the "Color/Grayscale" setting from color to "Grayscale" to save toner.
6. You will then have the "Handouts" selections available in the bottom right part of the grey box.
7. Then click "OK" and the handouts for the PowerPoint presentation will begin printing.
How Do I Submit a Turnatin Assignment?
1. Click on "View and Complete Assignment"
2. Click the "Submit Button"
3. Type in the name of your paper
4. Then click the "Browse" to attach your paper from your computer or flash drive.
5. Click on the "yes submit" button. if you chose the wrong paper click "no, go back"
6. You will now recieve a reciept of your submission with the title you entered for the paper (step 3#)
For Faculty:
How do I get a Blackboard course for my class?
Please Submit a ticket or call 610.436.3341 or 610.436.2194
How do I make my Blackboard course "Available" to students?
Every semester courses are set to "UNAVAILABLE" by default. Therefore the course will not appear on the student's list of avalible courses, unless the course is set to "Available".
Follow these steps to make your course "AVAILABLE":
1. Go to the Control Panel of the unavailable course
2. In the Course Options area click the "Settings link"
3. Click "Course Availability"
4. Select "Yes Make Course Available"
5. Click the "Submit" button
How do I combine multiple sections of my courses into one course?
Blackboard Support will no longer create a separate course site for faculty who are teaching multiple sections of the same course. (Exceptions to this policy are team taught courses, please email the Bb System Administrator at blackboard@wcupa.edu for more information)
Please note, Combining sections will also combine class rosters in blackboard. Here are the steps:
1. Go to the Blackboard course containing the roster you want to transfer from.
2. In the Control Panel, choose "Copy Course"
3. On the screen that opens, choose "Copy Course Materials into an Existing Course".
4. In Section 1, Browse to the course you want to transfer students to.
5. In Section 2, Check the box next to "Tasks ".
6. In Section 3, Check the box that says "Copy Enrollments".
7. Click "Submit".
Depending upon the number of students and the number of instructors doing similar transfers, this could be practically instantaneous or could take 10-15 minutes.
IMPORTANT: You must have Instructor privileges in both courses.
you are not using.