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Blackboard™ At UT-Houston Medical School

Welcome to Blackboard™, an e-learning application acquired by The University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston for use by all its institutions.

Blackboard™ is a tool that transforms the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching, learning and communication. Course directors can immediately take advantage of a variety of tools to publish course documents such as syllabi, handouts, presentations and assignments. Interactive components include discussion boards, real-time chat, virtual classrooms and various e-mail options. Other administrative tools include student group management, an online grade book, online quizzes and surveys and, the ability to track student use. A Blackboard™ course is automatically created for each UT-Houston course offered through the registrar's office, and populated with currently enrolled students.

Blackboard™ also creates a community that can include student, faculty and campus life organizations, and institution-wide discussion boards. Organizations are manually created upon request.

Everything Blackboard is a self-enroll organization containing everything you might want to know about Blackboard, including info on past and upcoming workshops, where to download helper files, and handy tip sheets. Here's how you access that organization.

  1. Log into Blackboard.
  2. Click on the Organizations tab on the top menu.
  3. Type Everything Blackboard in the Organization Search box and click GO!
  4. Everything Blackboard will appear in the Search Results list.
  5. Click the Enroll button on the right.
  6. Click the Submit button in the Self-Enrollment page.
  7. A link to Everything Blackboard will now appear in your "My Organizatoins" list.

Course Planning

10 Easy Steps to Creating a Course (.pdf)
Checklist: Building a Blackboard Course
Educational Benefits of Online Learning (.pdf)
Recommendations for Best Use of Blackboard (.pdf)
Tips for Instructional Design (.doc)

New Tools - click for a demo of these tools

Document Unpackager* -- this tool allows you to upload multiple files and/or folders at one time. You can set up the structure of how you want to display documents (files within folders, etc.) and uploade them all at once, instead of one at a time.
* Reguires using Winzip to "zip" the files into one compressed file.

Advanced Group Manager -- this tool allows you to more easily make groups and assign students into groups. It will even randomly assign students.
Click the link below for a tutorial on both tools.

For more information on Blackboard™ orientation, training, and assistance for Medical School faculty please contact Brenda Bassham in the Office of Educational Programs.
 

Contact Us
 

Blackboard™ Administrator, Medical School: Brenda Bassham
Location: Jesse Jones Library 304
Telephone: (713) 500-5140
Fax: (713) 500-0603

 

 

 

New Grade Center -- Getting Started

The latest version of Blackboard includes a new gradebook. The Grade Center is more versitle and provides new ways to vew, track and manage grades.

Click here to for a pdf file with instructions.

 

 

 

 

 

  

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