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Hands-On Blackboard

• TechnoCamp 2003

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Hands-on Activities

• Get started
• Post a document
• Two time-savers

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Getting Started

• TechnoCamp 2003

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Getting to the Site

• Go to www.miami.edu
• Click on Blackboard link (bottom left corner)
• Real name is www.courses.miami.edu
• Supports http or https
• Best bookmark is https//www.courses.miami.edu

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Logging In

• All UM employees and students have accounts
  automatically generated
• Username is UM e-mail alias
• Initial password is birth date
• No leading zeroes in month or day
• Four digits in year
• slashes (/) beteen month, day, and year
• Example May 1, 1949 05/01/1949

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Finding Your Course Sites

• Locate My UM Courses module (probably in lower
  right)
• Current courses should be there
• Click to enter course site
• Click on Courses tab to see ALL your courses
  for past semesters
• Contact IAC to resolve problems
  iac.help_at_miami.edu or 305-284-3949

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The Control Panel Button

• Only people who can change the contents of the
  site will see the Control Panel button
• You use it to modify the site
• Students dont have it
• Everything you do starts with Click on the
  Control Panel button to Go to the Control Panel

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Enabling the Buttons/Areas

• Go to the Control Panel
• Course Settings (lower left)
• Area Availability
• Enable (E) those buttons/areas you will be
  using the most common are
• Syllabus
• Faculty Information
• Course Documents
• Click Submit button

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Verify Success

• Click on course ID (in bread crumbs)
• Verify that requested buttons are present
• Always verify everything by viewing it from the
  course site after doing it from the Control Panel

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Break

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Posting a Document

• TechnoCamp 2003

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Adding a Syllabus

• Go to the Control Panel
• Click Syllabus link in Content area
• Click Add Item button (top left)
• Enter name (or use default Syllabus)
• Scroll down to Part 2
• Click Browse button, locate your document,
  select it, click Open button
• Scroll down and click Submit button

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Verify Success

• Click on course ID (in bread crumbs)
• Click on Syllabus button
• Click on link with file name
• Verify that file opens
• Always verify everything by viewing it from the
  course site after doing it from the Control Panel

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Modifying the Syllabus

• Go to the Control Panel
• Click Syllabus link in Content area
• Click Modify button to right of syllabus item
• Scroll down to Part 2
• Click remove link next to current syllabus
• Click Browse button, locate your revised
  syllabus, select it, click Open button
• Scroll down and click Submit button

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Verify Success

• Click on course ID (in bread crumbs)
• Click on Syllabus button
• Click on link with file name
• Verify that new file opens
• If you dont see changes, check that IEs Tools gt
  Internet Options gt Settings gt Every visit to
  page is selected. If not change it, close IE,
  and open it again.

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Break

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Two Time-Savers

• TechnoCamp 2003

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Posting Announcements

• Go to the Control Panel
• Click on Announcements link
• Click on Add Announcement button
• Fill in Subject and Message
• Scroll down and click Submit button
• Other options can be left blank

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Verify Success

• Click on course ID (in bread crumbs)
• Verify that announcement is visible
• Always verify everything by viewing it from the
  course site after doing it from the Control Panel

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Sending E-mail to the Class

• Go to the Control Panel
• Click Send E-mail link (left center)
• Click All Users (for entire class)
• Enter Subject and Message
• Scroll down and click on Submit button

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E-mail Notes

• You will get a copy, since you are in the class
  as the instructor
• Expect some errors from bad/no e-mail addresses
• Tell people with errors to use EASY to register a
  preferred e-mail address
• Refer people with difficulties to the IAC
  iac.help_at_mimai.edu or 305-284-3949

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