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Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center

Tutorials

The Center promotes effective research and teaching through a number of tutorials that have been developed for NIU faculty. Listed below are the online tutorials that the Center has developed.

Academic Integrity

Effective Writing Practices

Responsible Conduct of Reasearch

Teaching with Blackboard

 

Getting Started

  • Accessing Blackboard Tutorial Tutorial
  • Adding New Buttons Tutorial Tutorial
  • Making the e Course Available to Students Tutorial Tutorial

Course Content

  • Brief Introduction to Podcasting Tutorial Tutorial
  • Creating a Course Podcast in Blackboard Tutorial Tutorial

Communications

  • Changing Viewing Options for Private Messages Tutorial Tutorial
  • Online Collaboration: Configuring Access Rights for Active and Passive Users Tutorial Tutorial
  • Digital Dropbox Tutorial Tutorial

Assessments

  • Changing a Question in a Pre-existing Test Tutorial Tutorial
  • Making an Exam Unavailable Tutorial Tutorial
  • Adding Images to a Test Question Tutorial Tutorial
  • Creating an Exam from Test Pools Tutorial Tutorial
  • Adding an Assignment and Downloading All the Attached Files Related to that Assignment Tutorial Tutorial
Question Types

These tutorials, developed by Patrick Crispen at California State University, Long Beach, walk step-by-step through using the new questions types in Blackboard 6.3. *Note - CSULB refers to their installation of Blackboard as "BeachBoard" and they utilize this nomenclature throughout their tutorials.

Gradebook

  • Changing Gradebook Item Attributes Tutorial Tutorial
  • Assigning Variant Values to Letter Grades for Different Assignments Tutorial Tutorial

Groups

Communities

  • Learn how to get started using a Blackboard community Tutorial Tutorial

Student Management

 

Last Updated: 04/24/08