Blackboard is an electronic course management system that encourages interaction between students and faculty as well as among students. Blackboard incorporates web pages, e-mail, discussion boards, chat rooms, small group areas, online quizzes, an online grade book, document sharing, and more to create an online learning environment.
- Introduction to Blackboard
- Why use Blackboard? 75 reasons
- Log in to Blackboard
Strategies and Resources
Getting your Blackboard site up and running
- How to make your course available to students
- What to remind students about using Blackboard
- How to make special requests (e.g. adding TAs or guests, combining sections into one site; copying course content)
Getting started with Blackboard
- Navigating Blackboard
- Designing your course
- Adding documents
Other guides and resources on Blackboard
Guides and training for your students
Blackboard request forms
- Request that materials be copied to new course
- Request one site for multiple courses
- Add a TA (or other DePaul user) to the course
- Adding an outside guest
ITD offers a variety of training options, including group classes, one-on-one consultations, departmental trainings and online tutorials. See a comprehensive list of ITD events here.
DePaul Resources
Instructional Design and Development
- Consults on using Blackboard for online, hybrid or web-enhanced courses
Instructional Technology Development
- Provides resources, training and consultation on Blackboard
- upports Blackboard and other teaching technologies
