CITL Blackboard tutorials
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/citl/blackboard.cfm?doc_id=4217First Day of Class (see second link)
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/citl/articles.cfm?doc_id=3378Enhanced Classroom Features
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/citl/tools.cfm?doc_id=3352Standard Podium Tutorial
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/citl/tools.cfm?doc_id=3353
If you have any questions or concerns regarding Blackboard, the Stern Teaching Effectiveness Program (STEP), or technology training in one of the enhanced classrooms, please contact us at citl@stern.nyu.edu.
We have
listed several issues below that may ease the transition into the new semester.
Please click on the links below or scroll down to read descriptions of each:
Instructions
for Adding TAs to Blackboard
Students
Not Receiving E-mails in Blackboard
Instructor
Unable to Log In to Blackboard
Communicating
Blackboard Instructions to Students
You may be unaware, but as instructors you can control who
gains access to your course site. For instance, if you wish to add a TA to your
Blackboard course site, simply:
▪ Log into your course site (http://sternclasses.nyu.edu).
▪ Click on Control Panel.
▪ Click Add Users by Role.
▪ If you know your TA’s Blackboard log-in ID, type it in the field, select the role
“Teaching Assistant,” and click Submit.
▪ If
you don’t know your TA’s Blackboard log-in ID, click Browse and search
for the name (case sensitive). When you locate your TA, click Submit.
The user name should appear in the User(s) field, then select the role “Teaching
Assistant” and click Submit again.
Sometimes, when instructors send out e-mails through
Blackboard, they are unsure whether their students receive them. Some useful
tips:
▪ As
an instructor, you should receive a copy of the e-mail that you sent out to
students which (depending on server traffic) can take up to an hour or two. In
general, this will serve as confirmation that students received your e-mail. If
you do not receive a copy in your in-box within a couple hours, please contact citl@stern.nyu.edu
and let us know.
▪ Sometimes,
when sending out e-mail through Blackboard, instructors will receive a returned
message as undeliverable. This may occur because a student has set his or her
forwarding address to a commercial mailbox whose account is over the allotted
limit. To fix, please instruct the student to clear their mailbox. If a student
wishes to change his or her e-mail address to log into NYUHome
(http://home.nyu.edu),
they must click Preferences and change the e-mail address under “Mail
forwarding.” This is the address that will show up in Blackboard.
Occasionally, an instructor may have trouble logging into
Blackboard. This may happen for several reasons. Some things to note:
▪ Make sure the Caps lock on
your keyboard is not activated (sounds obvious, but yes it happens!)
▪ Make sure you are using
the same Stern log-in and password you use to check e-mail.
▪ If
you are a new faculty member, make sure you have visited HR in person to fill
out your paperwork and get processed; otherwise, your Blackboard account will
not have yet been created.
Also, as part of the course creation process, in the
upcoming weeks the CITL will include sample boilerplate text that can be used
to communicate Blackboard instructions to students. This might be useful if you
need to describe how to submit an assignment, change Blackboard e-mail
addresses, or create a home page profile. This content is unavailable to
students by default. To customize this content and make it available:
▪ Log into your course site (http://sternclasses.nyu.edu).
▪ Click on Control Panel.
▪
Click on Course Information.
▪ Follow the instructions in Course Information to copy the content to a
content area.
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Stern School of Business
New York University
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/citl/
Tel: (212) 998 0919