eLearning PILOT Tutorials (for eLearning Pilot Faculty)
What's New
- Notifications
- Edit Mode (Student View)
- Where to go to grade assignments and tests
- Course Menu Customization
- UT Dallas Email vs. Messages
Content Tools
Creating, Uploading and Managing Tools
- How to upload a syllabus into your eLearning course
- How to add text inside a page in your eLearning course
- How to upload a file into your course
- How to rename something in your course
- How to reorder objects on an eLearning page
- Where uploaded files are saved in your course (Content Collection)
- How to create folders to organize material
- How to create a web link
Course Menu
- Course Menu (description)
- How to hide/restore the course menu
- How to add a new area for content in the course menu
- How to reorder the links in the course menu
- How to rename a link in the course menu
Course Management Tools
Users
- How to add a Teaching Assistant to your eLearning course
- How to view a list of all users in your course
Grade Center
- How to access the Grade Center
- Smart Views in the Grade Center
- How to create a column in the Grade Center
- How to enter grades in the Grade Center
- How to see teh Grade History of a specific student's grade
Communication Tools
Discussion Boards
- How to create a discussion forum
- How to create a discussion board post
- How to reply to a post
- How to read posts on a discussion board
- How to create a graded discussion board
- How to grade student posts
- How students see their discussion board grades
UT Dallas Email
- UT Dallas Email in eLearning (description)
- How to send an email to all students in your course
- How to send an email to a specific student in your course
- How the Email tool is different from the Messages tool
Messages
- Messages tool (description)
- How to add the Messages tool to your course
- How to send a message to your students
- How to reply to a message
- How the Messages tool is different from the Email tool
Announcements
- How to post an announcement
- Where students see an announcement that you've posted
- How to schedule an announcement in advance
Additional Videos from Blackboard also available
Page last updated on November 7, 2012 .

