The Blackboard Control Panel - Teaching and Learning Innovation

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The Blackboard Control Panel
Each module has a Control Panel link under the left navigation panel. The Control Panel allows you to
make changes to your site.
Here you can upload documents, add
announcements, create discussions, manage
your users and customise the look and feel of
your module.
The Control Panel is split into different sections.
Module and instructor
details
The Control Panel
Content Areas
The Content Areas section is where you will add your teaching materials,
information about the course, any assignments and external web links that
are relevant to the course. You can upload a wide range of materials into
Tip:
To find out more about
adding content to
Blackboard see the HUBS
Multimedia advice sheet
“How to upload a
document”
Course Tools
Course Tools allow you to manage how you deliver your teaching, these include:
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• Announcements – post notices and information to your students. They will then see this
information when they login to Blackboard.
• Course Calendar – create a calendar for your students with
submission dates, exam dates etc.
• Staff Information – provide a list of staff teaching on the course,
with contact details, basic information and pictures. You can also link to
staff profiles on the HUBS website.
• Discussion Board – create and administer discussion lists/forums
for your students.
Tip:
To find out more about
creating a staff profile see
the HUBS Multimedia
advice sheet “Your staff
profile on the HUBS
website”
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Send Email – send emails to all students, selected students, groups or instructors on the course.
•
Digital Dropbox – a tool allowing electronic submission and exchange of documents.
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Course Options
Course Options allow you to edit the settings of some of the Blackboard tools and change the look and
feel of your course.
• Manage Course Menu – add or remove content areas within the module with any alterations
being reflected in the navigation. You can also rename the content areas.
• Manage Tools – enable or disable the Blackboard tools, giving you control of which aspects of
Blackboard your students can access.
• Settings – customise the look of the module by uploading a course banner and changing the
colour and style of the menu buttons. By using Course Availability you can effectively hide the
module from students until you want them to access it.
User Management
The options in this section allow you to add or remove students and staff from the module, change the
status of users and also set up and maintain groups.
Please note that students are added to modules automatically through ASIS however there
maybe occasions where you need to add new users or modify the status or details of existing
users.
Assessment
The Assessment section contains options for the creation and editing of tests and surveys and the
monitoring of statistics about course usage.
• Test Manager – create and modify test questions from a range of question types accessible
through a drop down menu.
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Survey Manager – works in the same way as the Test Manager
• Pool Manager – here test questions and surveys can be combined into “Pools” then exported to
other modules to be reused via the “Import” option in the Pool Manager
• Course Statistics – allows you to review and monitor the usage of the module on a per user/ per
section basis for any dates you choose. This data can be printed out or exported in .csv format for use
in Excel.
Help
Here there is a link to the Blackboard online Manual, this web based resource is a fully comprehensive
guide to Blackboard in it’s entirety and is recommended for users who may wish to use some of the more
advanced features of Blackboard.
The Help section has a direct email link to the University of Huddersfield Blackboard support. You can
contact Blackboard support for technical issues relating to the performance of the system as a whole. For
enquiries about individual modules please contact:
Abdul Jabbar the HUBS LTA (Learning Technology Advisor)
email: a.jabbar@hud.ac.uk
tel: 01484 473628
or HUBS Multimedia (details at the bottom of the page)
The Support option is for Blackboard administrators only.
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a.jabbar@hud.ac.uk
01484 473628
http://www2.hud.ac.uk/uhbs/about/student_info/