Grande Prairie Regional College

Blackboard Reference for Faculty

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What is Blackboard?

Blackboard is a learning management system that allows instructors to put their classes on the Internet and interact with their students online without having to be experts in HTML. These online courses can accompany face-to-face classes or become the backbone of a distance education course. Blackboard course spaces allow instructors to post online copies of handouts and presentations, create and deliver quizzes that automatically record students' performance, run and monitor discussion boards, post important announcements, or receive electronic documents from students.


How to use Blackboard

Blackboard Basics  
Blackboard and Distance Education Basics  
Login to Blackboard Training space:
Where to find your course spaces:  
Description of a course front page:  
Control Panel features:  
Adding an announcement to a course page
Adding a document to a course content area
Adding a new content area to the course menu
Adding a web link to a course content area
Quizzes & Surveys  
Gradebook  
Discussion Board  
Dropbox  
Instructor Manual