The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning endeavors to provide Detroit Mercy faculty and students support and training in the use of a...
Blackboard’s course sites have a suite of asynchronous social tools -- Journals, Blogs, Discussion, and Wikis -- that provide students with...
Merging courses is a way to seamlessly put students from two or more courses into a single course site.
If you're teaching a single...
Blackboard course sites are grouped by Term (e.g., Term 1 2020).
The College, School, Department, & Program...
Steps Students Can Take ...
To prepare for a possible emergency on campus
Respondus LockDown Browser provides a more secure environment for online testing. LockDown Browser itself is a separate web browser (like Internet...
While LockDown Browser prevents students from looking up answers or taking screenshots on a single computer, it does not prevent a remote student...
Formerly known as Flipgrid, Flip is a free web and app-based "social learning" program for video sharing and...
Blackboard assessments have three time factors -- due date, duration, and availability. The interactions between these often causes confusion for...
Announcements are an effective way to communicate with all your students via single message. This is particularly true of courses that require...
There are multiple types of rubrics available in Blackboard. Based on how you wish to evaluate student work, when you create or edit your rubric...
The YuJa Media Library provides a streamlined method for storing and sharing video, audio, and other media files with your students.
In...
OneDrive's SHARE tool lets you provide students on Blackboard (or in a virtual classroom like Collaborate) with a link to a file on OneDrive....
The course menu will be your students' main point of access to all the content and activities you've loaded into your course site. It also...
Blackboard automatically generates a PDF of student assignment submissions that can be viewed and annotated online through the course site's...
Think of YuJa's media channels function as course-based playlists.
When an instructor accesses YuJa through Blackboard -- by...
Blackboard course sites come in two styles -- the older original or "classic" style and the more modern ultra-style. Though the two...
Blackboard course sites have long had a 6GB limit on the total size of a course site. This limit is necessitated by limits on our overall...
I. ATTENDANCE
The American Bar Association accreditation standards mandate that a law school adopt, publish, and adhere to a sound policy...
The School of Dentistry provides standardized syllabus information in the form of an annotated sample syllabus. The Dentistry and Dental Hygiene...
University of Detroit Mercy recognizes the importance of syllabi as documents that reflect the creative and intellectual endeavors of its faculty....
Most online course sites will require some amount lecturing to help you get your students on the right page. Here are some tips to help you create...
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This policy establishes requirements for vendors requesting access to the University...
What is the Plan?
Starting with Fall Term 2026-2027 offerings, all new Blackboard course sites will use the new Ultra course view....
University of Detroit Mercy is committed to ensuring that all students have an equal opportunity to participate in the university's programs,...
Consistent and clear communication is directly correlated with student success. Regardless of the course level, students may have little or no...
Generally, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning recommends creating a main "Content" space (or using the one provided),...
To post a video to a Blackboard discussion, you will need to do the following:
1. Record the video you wish to post.
2. Add...
Submitting an assignment online is a simple process. You can turn in all manner of files using Blackboard's assignment tool, and you can even...
To copy a test and all its settings from one classic-style course to another you will need to use Course Copy to copy the content area containing...
An Engage attendance activity consists of a single (100-point) question that you release to your students, usually at the beginning of class. The...
If you’re looking to create a test or pool of questions quickly, CETL can generate a question pool or test from an appropriately formatted...
Engage Attendance activities consist of a single question with a single response. Attendance activities can also be "geofenced." This...
The ITEM tool lets you add a block of text, media (images, video, audio), and / or attached files to your course site.
Effective July 1, 2010, the Higher Learning Commission stipulated that the University of Detroit Mercy was authorized for “Initiation of...
You can use the filter bar at the top of the courses page to select and view courses from a particular term. Just click the TERMS box to open a...
When copying from one classic-style course to another, begin in the course that you want to copy from (the course...
To reply to a message, open your Inbox from within your Blackboard Course Messages.
Click on the subject of the message to...
When you use the insert content button (instead of attach) the item becomes embedded in the text. Blackboard supports many different file types,...
You can embed Stream, YouTube, Prezi, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Spotify or other media on the page by pasting a share link. A full list of supported...
While the web-based versions of Office apps Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are both useful and convenient, they are not as full-featured as the...
This technique is for using rubrics created on and exported from Blackboard, not rubrics from other programs such as Microsoft Word.
Grades listed in Blackboard are helpful for tracking your performance in a course. They should always be taken as a guide, rather than the final...
The Grade Center's Weighted Total column lets you provide "percent of total" values for both stand-alone columns and columns...
Depending on how you've set up your classic-style Blackboard Grade Center, you may find it useful to collect some number of columns into a...
The Canva design platform provides many different options. This article focuses on the basic elements options: lines & shapes, graphics, and...
The FILE Tool lets you add file (Powerpoint file, PDF file, Word file, etc) as a stand-alone link to your course site. If you want to add a...
Beneath the assignment information you'll find the submission space.
In some cases, your professor may indicate that you can write...
An assignment looks roughly like this:
Note, the colors and text will often be different. What's key is that it's...
Click the More (three-dot) button right of the Blackboard Collaborate heading under Details & Actions (on the right side of the page),
In a Classic-style course site, the bulk-delete tool lets you remove large chunks of content (or users) in a single step.
You'll...
While the comment annotation or highlighted comment are often a good way to provide students with feedback on a selection within their submission,...
From the Test Canvas page, point to Re-Use Question at the top of the page, then choose Create Random Block.
From the Choose...
The Test Access Log shows you when a student started and stopped a test, along with when each question response was saved.
The...
On your course Groups page, point to CREATE in the upper left.
You will need to decide whether you are creating a single...
To create a question pool (which can be used as the source for a random block) go to the Pools page by visiting the Tests, Survey, and Pools page,...
You can download the YuJa Video app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play store.
If you are viewing this page on your mobile...
If you are creating a single manually enrolled group, you'll be able to jump right to adding users by clicking the ADD USERS button at the...
You can release an Engage poll (or quiz, if scored) from the Release Activity page. You can either release the activity all at once, letting...
Test Availability Exceptions can be used to make a test available to an individual or group outside the normal test availability window (that is,...
(Admin Only) Use this form to request the enrollments CSV for a single site....
Basic Creation
To create a forum, click the CREATE FORUM button.
First you'll be prompted to enter a forum name...
While the ideal use of Media Library [Yuja] is to share individual media (such as videos) with a course by using...
Blackboard's Date Management tool lets you view and adjust the due dates and availability dates for all the content (items, files, etc.),...
Defining commonly used terms offers faculty and administration a way of communicating ideas effectively when developing online materials, courses,...
Use this form to request that two or more Blackboard course sites be merged into a single course site....
Blackboard's Release Conditions tool lets you make folders, items, and assessments available to students who meet a set of requirements. Most...