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Blackboard Best Practices

  1. Archive your course weekly and save to a backup drive.
  2. Export your gradebook weekly and after testing and save to a backup drive.
  3. Delete digital dropbox files once you have downloaded and/or graded them.
  4. Ask your students to clean out their digital dropboxes regularly to help it load faster.
  5. Plan which content areas you will need and which content area titles best suit your course.Disable any buttons or features that you will not need.
  6. Consider making some more advanced Blackboard features appear after the class has gotten to the point where they are needed.
  7. Put a picture of yourself, contact information and relavant information about yourself in the Staff Information section so distance students get a sense of who you are.
  8. Add content before you actually want students to see it, and set it as unavailable until it is needed. This avoids the rush and possibility that you will have technical problems at the last minute.
  9. If you need to drop a student from a class, consider just disabling his access to the course. This allows you to keep his or her work for later reference. If you delete a student from your class, all class records pertaining to that student are deleted.
  10. Include directions in your course on what file format students are expected to use when submitting assignments. For example, tell them that you want them to create and save the file using Microsoft Word.
  11. It can help to specify file names for files that will be submitted to the dropbox or by e-mail. For example "Assign1_JSmith.doc".

Blackboard Help Topics

Fredericksburg Campus
10000 Germanna Point Drive
Fredericksburg, VA 22408-9543
Phone: 540-891-3000
TTY: 540-891-3059
FAX: 540-710-2092 		Daniel Technology Center
18121 Technology Drive
Culpeper, VA 22701
Instruction: 540-937-2914
Workforce: 540-937-2900
Fax: 540-937-2918 		Locust Grove Campus
2130 Germanna Highway
Locust Grove, VA 22508-2102
Phone: 540-423-9030
TTY: 540-423-9888
FAX: 540-727-3207