Blackboard

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.

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

Blackboard Training

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

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