Guides for Course Builders and Faculty

Here are some quick How to Guides that we have created for faculty & staff  the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai:

Password

• How to Reset Your Password (Sinai Account)

• How to Log In with a (Non-Sinai Account)

• How to Change Your Password (Non-Sinai Account)

Assignments:

• How to Create an Assignment

• How to Download Students' Submitted Assignments

• How to Download Your Student Group's Uploaded Assignments

• How to Grade, Annotate, and Provide Feedback to Submitted Assignments

• How to Enable Delegated Grading for Assignments

Content:

• How to Upload an Item in Blackboard

• How to Create a Discussion Board

• How to Create a Group Discussion Boards

• How to Upload a File into a Discussion Board

• Creating a Link to a Journal Article 

• How to Hide or Un-hide Item, Folder, and Content in Your Course

• How to Limit Visibility to Content with Adaptive Release

• How to Add Audio Voice-over in PowerPoint

• How to Edit a Module

• How to Copy or Move Course Content

Courses:

• How to Navigate the Courses Page

• How to Prepare Courses (Graduate School)

• How to Make Your Course "Available"

• How to Un-hide Course(s)

• How to Add Users to Your Course or Organization

• How to Add Multiple Users to Your Course or Organization

• How to Change a User's Role

• How to Define Course and Organization Roles in Blackboard

• How to Change Your Course Entry Point

• How to Find the Full Roster for Your Class

• How to Create Groups & Smart Views in the Grade Center

• How to Copy Your Clerkship (Medical school 3rd and 4th Year)

• How to Add Google Calendar to Your Course

Grades:

• How to Download the Gradebook

• How to Submit Final Grades to the Registrar (Graduate School)

• How to Submit the Final Course Grade and Comments (Medical School)

• How to Submit Clerkship Grades (Medical School)

• How to Upload Test Grades from NBME or Other Sites (Medical School)

• How to Re-Grade a Question on a Test

• How to View Submitted Survey information

• How to Upload Student Comments into the Grade Center Using Excel

• How to Accept Late Exam Submission (Yellow Exclamation Mark)

Quizzes/Exams:

• How to Prepare a Test for Conversion in Blackboard (Medical School)

• How to Make your Test Available

• How to Create Your Own Exam From Scratch and Deploy It

• How to Copy a Test from One Course to Another

• How to Add an Exception on a Test for Time, Multiple Attempts, or Alternate Date

Lecture Capture System (Echo360):

• How to use Echo360 Universal Capture: Personal

• How to Enable Echo360 Live Stream

• How to Create a Schedule in Echo360

• How to Upload Media Into Echo360 Library

• How to Upload Media Into Echo360 Course

• How to Publish Media from Library into Echo360 Course

• How to Re-publish a Recording to Another Section

• How to Create a Public Link in Echo360

• How to Edit a Single Echo360 Schedule

• How to Edit a Recurring Echo360 Schedule

• How to Create a Section Access Link

• How to Make Recording Available or Unavailable

Portfolio

• How to Create Assignment in Portfolio

• How to Grade an Assignment in Portfolio

Video Conferencing Tool (Zoom):

• How to Integrate Zoom into Blackboard Course

• How to Log Into the Zoom App (Computer)