Blackboard - FAQs, Tutorials and External Links

Welcome to Blackboard Release 7
Blackboard R7 provides a variety of enhancements to better engage students and assist instructors in managing their courses. MORE...

Blackboard Manuals (Release 7.1)
Access links to both Adobe Acrobat (pdf) and Microsoft Word (doc) versions of the instructor and user manuals for Blackboard V7. MORE...

Blackboard FAQ (Release 7 or later)
Quickly find answers to some of the most frequently asked Blackboard questions. MORE...

Blackboard Toolbox
The Blackboard Toolbox is available to Ball State faculty members for creating and managing Blackboard course sites and Communities. MORE...

Blackboard Community Registration
Ball State students, faculty, and staff, as well as others that wish to join an XT Community may use this area to create an XT Community Account and/or enroll in an XT Community. MORE...

Course Design Tools in Blackboard (Release 7 or later)
The newest version of Blackboard allows for greater control of the "look and feel" of the course sites. Both structure and appearance of the course can now be managed by the individual instructor from the Course Options area of the Instructor Control Panel. MORE...

Managing Student Groups In Your Blackboard Course (Release 7 or later)
Placing students in groups can facilitate project work and study group formation in a course. The group area will have their own communication tools that are not available to the rest of the class, but that can be looked at by the instructor. MORE...

Selecting and Posting Course Materials (Release 7 or later)
The Blackboard course management system supports posting of many types of documents. Students' ability to open and view different types of documents varies greatly and document posting requires some attention on your part. MORE...