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Blackboard Scholar in Online@UT: A How-To Guide

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Course Integration

Blackboard Scholar resources can be integrated into an Online@UT course. They can be used to:

Share the instructor’s collection of web resources with students.
Build class resource repository and reuse it in the next semester or another course site.
Have students add web resources and evaluate them.

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Register Course

To start sharing resources within a course site, you need to register the course with Blackboard Scholar.

Select your course, then Course Tools.
Select Scholar Course Home.
Select a discipline in the Register the Course form.
Click “Register Course.”

Access Course Page

A Scholar Course Home page is only viewable by students and instructors in a course. It is accessible only via Online@UT and only from within the course. Course Tags are only viewable by students and instructors in a course. Only instructor can customize the course page.

Customize Course Page

To start sharing resources within a course, create a stream, which is a saved search based on certain tags. The tags determine what resources will be displayed in a list. Here is an example how to create a course collection of resources saved by instructors of “Instructional Technology” in Scholar.

Under Course Tools, select Scholar Course Home.
Select the Advanced Search button.
Next to Discipline Tags, select “Instructional Technology” in the drop-down menu.
Press the Add Criteria button.
Select the User Role option.
In the displayed User Role drop-down menu, select “Instructor”.
Press the Search button at the bottom of the page.
Next to the header “Search Results from All Bookmarks,” select the Save button. A few options will be displayed.
Type the Search name, select the Add to Scholar Course Home, enter the number of results to display per page, and press Save.
Press on the Course tab at the top to reload the Couse Home page. The created stream will be displayed at the top.

Some other examples of streams are:

Course Resources: a stream based on the Course tag (shows all items that all class members save with the Course Tag).
Instructor Resources: a stream based on the Course tag and the instructor’s user name (shows all items saved by the instructor only, with the Course Tag).
Student Resources: a stream based on a Course tag and the student role (shows items saved by students of the class).
Discipline Resources: a stream based on the Discipline Tag (shows all items that are saved by any user of Scholar with the Discipline Tag e.g., Biology).