NEIU will discontinue Blackboard after the Spring 2013 semester. No new Blackboard courses will be created for Summer 2013. The entire university is moving to the Desire2Learn system.

NEIU Blackboard Policy Guidance

• NEIU official Blackboard Policy Handbook
• Overview of the CMS process

• Adding grade column
• Hide columns
• Modifying columns
• Weighting grades
• Retrieving assignments individually
• Retrieving a batch of assignments
• Entering grades

• Make a course available
• Remove old courses from the My Courses menu
• Upload syllabus
• Create assignment link
• Creating discussion forums and discussion threads
• Reading, replying to, and grading student discussion posts
• Helpful, time-saving discussion board tips
• Upload the Blackboard tutorial for students to your course
• Grade electronic copies of papers efficiently with Annotate for Word Pro
• Set up and use student groups through Blackboard
• How to use Blackboard's Safe Assign
• Move content from one of your courses to another
• Copy an entire past course into a current course
• Use dimdim.com to have real-time, audio chat with your students
• Create fun, engaging audio announcements using voki.com
• How to embed synchronous chat in your Blackboard course using Digsby (PC)
• How to make a personalized course banner using Power Point
• How to personalize your course navigation menu
• How to create quizzes or tests in Blackboard

• How to use Blackboard's Safe Assign
• How to embed synchronous chat in your Blackboard course using Meebo (PC and Mac)
• Getting started with the grade center
• Toolbar explanation
• Entering a grade
• Editing a grade
• Adding an item/column
• Modifying an item/column
• Deleting a column
• Moving a column
• Freezing a column
• Hiding a column
• Weighting a column
• Adding comments to a grade
• Adding an minimum/maximum grade column
• Excluding Nulls
• Grading assignments individually
• Downloading a batch of assignments
• Creating and Managing Groups