How to... Blackboard Guides for Students
Blackboard is fairly intuitive and simple to use. There may however be times when you could do with a little help. Listed below are a number of guides that cover most aspects of Blackboard that you are likely to use.
If you find any aspect of a guide confusing, let us know how we could make it better. Let us know also if you would like a new guide to be produced about a particular area of Blackboard not covered so far.
iSolutions Blackboard How To... Guides
How to Enrol Manually onto a Blackboard course
Although you should be automatically enrolled on most of your Blackboard courses, occasionally you may have to enrol onto a course manually.
How to Download and Print Information from Blackboard
You may wish to download or print material that has been placed onto your Blackboard course.
How to use Search within Blackboard
This guide explains how you can search Blackboard.
How to Mark an Item of Content as "Reviewed"
You may see a button beside some content items labelled "Mark Reviewed", this guide explains how to use such a button.
How to take a Test (or Survey) using Blackboard
This guide covers the kinds of questions you may be asked in a Blackboard test or survey, and how to access results and / or feedback.
How to Post a Message on a Blackboard Discussion Board
Your course may use the discussion board feature. This guide explains how it works.
How to Access "Group Areas" in your Blackboard Course
Your course instructor may have set up "Group Areas". This guide shows you how to access them.
How to Sign Up to a Sign Up List
You may be given the opportunity to sign yourself up to a sign up list. This guide takes you through the process.
How to Use Blogs Within Blackboard
This set of guides explain how to use Blogs within your Blackboard course, from posting new entries to reviewing the history of your posts.
How to Use Wikis Within Blackboard
This comprehensive set of "how to" guides explains how you can work collaborativly on a wiki within your course. Topics include adding a new page, editing an existing page, and review the history of a wiki page.
How to Customise the "My University of Southampton" Screen
It is possible to customise the "My University of Southampton" screen. This is useful as you use Blackboard over successive years because it allows you to hide courses that are no longer relevant to you, meaning only current courses will appear.
How to submit an essay through the TurnItIn Plagiarism Detection Service
This guide describes how to submit work such as an essay through the TurnItIn Plagiarism Detection Service.
How to Use the Blackboard Assignment Feature
This guide explains how to submit an assignment using the Blackboard assignment feature.
How to Check Assignment Results
Use this guide to find out assignment results.
How to Send and Receive Files using the Blackboard 'Digital Dropbox'
This guide explains how to send and receive files using the Blackboard Digital Dropbox.
How to Use Podcasts Within Blackboard
This set of guides explains how to download and / or subscribe to podcasts that have been added to your Blackboard course.
Useful iSolutions Blackboard Web Pages
Getting Started With Blackboard
This web page provides general information about how to get started with your use of Blackboard.
iSolutions Blackboard Student F.A.Q.
If you have a question about Blackboard it may well have been answered in this list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Student Support for Blackboard
This web page describes how to get help and support with Blackboard.
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