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About Blackboard
Blackboard is a web-based platform that enables instructors to offer course content; post and collect assignments, including online tests; provide...
Add an assignment
The assignment tool lets you collect work from your students for grading. Almost any file type can be collected via the assignment tool -- Word...
Adding an announcement
Announcements are a great way to provide timely course information and stay in touch with your students. By default, a course announcement will...
Adding an Item – Text, Files, Images, and More
Whether building or maintaining a course site, one of the most common activities is adding files and blocks of text. Depending on the content...
Creating a Blackboard folder (and putting things in it)
Just like on your desktop (or laptop or even in your filing cabinet), Blackboard folders are the best way to organize content and keep similar items...
Getting help with Blackboard
The Instructional Design Studio provides the UDM community with Blackboard training and support. IDS provides individual and small group instruction...
How to make your course site available
When created, course sites are unavailable by default. This means you, as faculty, can access the site to load content, but students cannot. When you...
I can log into TitanConnect but I can't log into Blackboard
If your username and password work on TitanConnect but not on Blackboard, then it may be that your Blackboard account is inactive. Student Bb...
IDS supported tools for online education
The Instructional Design Studio endeavors to provide UDM faculty and students support and training in the use of a broad range of tools used in the...
Logging in to Blackboard
Use your TitanConnect username and password to log in to Blackboard. If your TitanConnect password isn't working Confirm you don't have...
Merging courses
If you're teaching a single course that's split into multiple sections, or multiple courses that will use the same content, you may want to...
Missing courses?
Your My Courses list is updated at midnight, 6:00am, noon, and 6:00pm daily, based on your course assignments in TitanConnect. The process takes a...
Why is my course unavailable?
A Blackboard course site is set to unavailable until the professor turns it on. While some faculty may make course sites available before or at the...