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| Course Management | Description |
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| Important information concerning how and when you can get a course site, Blackboard customizations at UTK, and how to get help. | |
| Learn about some important steps to back up your course sites and transition to another semester. |
| Grade Center | Description |
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| Grade Center: Quick Start Guide |
Learn about adding and customizing columns, entering grades, reviewing assessment attempts, and using the Icon Legend. |
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Grade Center: Overview of New Features |
The Grade Center, a redesigned and renamed grading tool, is one of the major enhancements in the Blackboard 8 upgrade. |
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Grade Center: Action Bar and Spreadsheet |
This tutorial describes the functions of the Action Bar and the spreadsheet. |
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Grade Center: Create Grading Periods |
Grading Periods are time segments created by an instructor. |
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Grade Center: Add and Manage Columns |
Instructors can add columns for graded items to the Grade Center automatically, manually, or through uploading. Grade columns can be modified, removed, reordered, frozen, or hidden. |
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Grade Center: Manage Grades |
Grades can be entered into the Grade Center automatically, manually, or by uploading. Learn to enter a grade manually, change a grade, add a comment to a grade, delete a grade, revert a grade, delete an attempt, drop a grade, and view a grade's history. |
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Grade Center: Customize Spreadsheet with Smart Views |
Instructors can create “Smart Views”, a display of the Grade Center spreadsheet data based on various criteria. Any Smart View can be saved as the default view of the Grade Center. |
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Grade Center: Change Grading Scale |
To change the predefined grading scale to display a grade as "Pass/Fail" or a letter grade, use the Grading Schema. |
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Grade Center: Calculate Grades |
You can Add Calculated Columns to perform customized grade calculations and include only selected columns in the calculations. |
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Grade Center: Download Grades |
You can download Grade Center data to your computer as a tab or comma delimited file that you can use in other applications such as Excel or statistical analysis programs. |
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Grade Center: Upload Grades |
If you prefer to maintain student grades in an Excel spreadsheet on your computer, you can still upload them to your Online@UT course site. |
| Course Options | Description | Download content and student information for a course record. |
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| Learn how to modify your course name. | Learn how to modify your course design. |
| Download content for a course record. | Control student access to Online@UT based on role. |
| Creating content areas and gathering learning resources can be done online and offline. Learn more about planning your future courses in offline mode. |
| Content Areas | Description | Course Instructors use the Online@UT Copy Course Content tool to copy course content from one course site into another and/or move course content to another location within the same course. |
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| Course instructors use the Online@UT Course Copy option to manage course sites from semester to semester. | Learn how to work with groups of files. |
| Knowing how to format with Microsoft Word can help you achieve better looking documents for posting into your Online@UT course site. | Learn how to build a learning unit. |
| Learn more about using the Math and Science Notation tool. | Planning Guide |
Download an Online@UT Planning Guide to help you plan your course site. |
| Course Tools | Description |
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| Learn how to add an announcement to create a welcome statement or inform students about new material. | |
| Learn about the advantages of using the assignment manager. | |
| Learn how to create an assignment. |
| Specialty Tools | Description | Learn how to SAVE your bookmarks online, SHARE resources with other Scholar users, DISCOVER new links, and TAG your bookmarks for SORTING and easy RETRIEVAL from any computer. |
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| Learn how to set up blogs in your Online@UT course. | |
| Learn how to set up shared web space inside Online@UT for students to create multi-page websites as class projects. | |
| Learn how to use this supplemental research tool that allows faculty and students to search, locate, and link to scholarly literature from within Online@UT. | |
| Learn how to encourage original student writing, proper attribution, and citation by checking student submitted texts against a variety of online databases. | |
| Learn how to create a variety of online sign-up sheets in your Online@UT course site. | |
| Learn how to create an entry point that takes your students directly to the UTK on iTunes U course area from within your Online@UT course. |
| User Management | Description | As an instructor, you can opt to add teaching assistants, guest instructors, and graders to a course site. |
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| Learn how to create and manage groups. | Learn how to access your online roster. |
| Miscellaneous | Description | You can view the online manual. |
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| Learn more about creating an Online@UT Community Organization site. | Learn more about your University NetID. |
| Learn how to route UT email to another email account. |