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Learn how to utilize the Blackboard System to distribute accessible files to

your students, securely!

By Kamran Rasul (rasul@american.edu)

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About us

What is Blackboard?

How we use it?

Demonstration

Resources

Questions & Answers

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About us

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What is Blackboard?

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How we use it?

• Kurzweil files• PDFs (articles, books, notes)• Word/text formatted files• Audio files• Scanned notes• Publishers’ electronic copy(s)

(Multiple files are compressed and delivered)

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How we use it?

1. First contact your on-campus Blackboard administrator to set you up

2. Create the course [ACCESSING HIGHER GROUNDS (DSS-901- F2009]

3. Login/Password

4. Very Important: Set restrictions | Select Control Panel | Select Manage Course Menu | Recommended user modify not remove.

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How we use it?

6. Select Enroll User

7. Select List/Modify Users

8. Select Course Document | Select Edit View (located top right corner)

9. Select Add Item or Folder (these can be combined)

10. Set Adaptive Release restrictions ASAP.

11. Adaptive Release | Scroll to Membership | Select Browse | Pop up window will open

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How we use it?

12. Use Search options to find student(s) | Select Submit (top right corner) | Window will close

13. Returns you back to Adaptive Release options screen | Scroll to the bottom of the screen | Select Submit

14. A message will appears “The Rule was updated successfully” | Click OK

15. When you return back to Course Documents | Edit View “Enabled: Adaptive Release “ will now appear below the file name

16. Use Advanced Release option to remove all Adaptive Release messages

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Resources

On-line Digital Downloads

• Bookshare, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive and etc…

E-book readers

• Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, Plastic Logic and etc..

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Questions & Answers