Distance Learning - Southwestern Community College

Last updated 12/13/05

ON-LINE LEARNING - Tutorials

Blackboard Tutorials (with images)

	Announcements
	Tip by Ernest Morgan
	Calendar
	Course Statistics/Tracking
	Discussions
	(Avoiding Online Discussion Pitfalls)
	Adding Images to Discussions
	Rubrics, Roles, and Successful Online Discussions
	E-mail
	ExamView
	Gradebook
	Gradebook Exporting and Resizing
	Guest Access
	Staff Information (Personal Profile)
	Test/Assessment
	Editing Test/Import/Export
	Zip and Unzip Files

Additonal Blackboard Tutorials

	Assessment Tool
	Adding mass questions in Assessments
	Blackboard pdf, Assessments
	Dropping Lowest Test Score in Gradebook
	Preventing Printing and Copying of tests

	Announcements
	Blackboard video, Announcements

	Assignment Dropbox
	Blackboard pdf, Assignment (Dropbox) tips
	Blackboard video, Assignment (Dropbox) creation
	Blackboard pdf, Assignment (Dropbox) grading

	Digital Dropbox
	Digital Dropbox
	Digital Dropbox vs. Assignment (Dropbox)

	*Discussions*
	Discussion Forum
	Discussion Threads
	Discussion Board Options

	*Gradebook*
	Gradebook Icons and Definitions
	Gradebook, Weighting Grades by Item
	Gradebook, Weighting Grades by Category

	Building a Learning Unit

	Field Lengths (Characters in textblock)

	Managing Groups

	Modifying your Course Design

	Other Good Institutional Sites
	Mid-South Community College
	San Diego State University - great site for step-by-step textual tutorials.
	Tulsa Community College Site
	University of Illinois at Chicago
	University of Sranton
	Wabash College (collection of tutorial sites from several institutions)