Making use of the Blackboard Portal

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Making use of the Blackboard Portal
CSUEB Fall Faculty Technology/Blackboard
Workshops

• Tracy Tan
• Dan Legate
• Information Computing Services

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What can we do with Blackboard Portal?

• Announcements
• Your courses
• University News Events
• E-Grades
• Early Alert

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What else can we do in Blackboard Portal?

• Research
• Check your email
• Check weather
• Google
• Map an address
• News

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How to add new module into my Portal Page in
Blackboard?
Step 1 Click Modify Content Button on your
Portal page
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How to add these modules into my Portal Page in
Blackboard?
Step 2 Click the checkbox of the module you want
to add, then click Submit button at the bottom
of the page.
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Research

• Gartner Business and IT ResearchLog in to
  Gartner through the portal
• MERLOT - Most Recent Materials

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What is Gartner?

• What They DoLeading provider of research and
  analysis on the global information technology
  industry, Gartner answers more than 215,000
  one-to-one client inquiries each year
  EmployeesApproximately 3,900 - more than 650
  analysts- more than 550 consultants
  ClientsWith 45,000 clients, representing 9,000
  distinct organizations more than 60 percent of
  the Fortune 1000 and nearly 80 percent of the
  Global 500 support their key technology decisions
  with Gartner insight and knowledge
• From www.gartner.com

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Gartner Business and IT Research Portal Module
in Blackboard
Click Gartner link to automatic log you into
Gartner site with CSU East Bay license
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You have logged in to Gartner with our campus
site license your NetID will show up here
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You search for Higher Education, articles show
up in the search, and you click on the link to
read this article.Since you go through our
Blackboard Gartner module to automatically login
to Gartner, you can read this article without
paying a fee.
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If you go to Gartner site directly, you will need
to pay 95.00 for the same article
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What is MERLOT?

• MERLOT stands for the Multimedia Educational
  Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
• MERLOT is a free and open resource designed
  primarily for faculty and students of higher
  education. Links to online learning materials are
  collected here along with annotations such as
  peer reviews and assignments.
• MERLOT's visionTo be a premiere online
  community where faculty, staff, and students from
  around the world share their learning materials
  and pedagogy.

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Merlot Most Recent Materials Portal Module in
Blackboard
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You click on the link and a new window pops up on
the MERLOT site
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Check your email?

• ? WebMail module

Click on the Pencil icon or click here link to
configure your WebMail setting.
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CSU East Bay - WebMail
Put in your password for your CSU East Bay
EmailIf you change your email password, youll
have to change it here also.
Click Submit button to save the setting.
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CSU East Bay - WebMail
Click WebMail link to access to your CSU East Bay
emails
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CSU East Bay - WebMail
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Other Useful Portal Modules

• Google Search
• Maps
• Weather
• New York Times

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• Questions?
• Now go play!