Blackboard is a course management system offered to faculty, staff and students at Skidmore College. Here you will find tutorials, tip sheets, and important updates. For additional information please contact Academic Technologies. You may also it helpful to refer to the Blackboard Manual for Instructors, easily found in the Control Panel of your course.

Some key points:

• Courses are automatically created for you, prior to the beginning of each semester. 
• Students are automatically enrolled and the add-drop period is managed electronically as well.
  

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Quick Reference Guides

Reference guides created by Blackboard to help you get up and running with the various components quickly and easily.

• Getting Started with Blackboard - This guide will provide you with quick access to answers about the Blackboard course environment.
• Getting Started with Course Content - This guide describes the variety of content you can add to your course, and explains how to its done.
• Getting Started with Assignments - This guide instructs on how to create an online assignment, collect student submissions and grade them within Blackboard.
  
• Getting Started with Groups - This guide will instruct you on how to create student groups within your course to allow for online collaboration.
• Getting Started with Grade Center - This guide explains how to use the extensive electronic gradebook.

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Online Video Tutorials

Rather view a video? Blackboard has provided us with an excellent library of training videos which will give you the just in time training you need.

• Creating your Course
• Managing Students and Groups
• Communication and Collaboration Tools
• Evaluation and Assignment Tools
• Using the Grade Center
  

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Blackboard Help Sheets

Check here for printable help sheets on a number of different Blackboard features and how to use them in your course.