Important Information for Blackboard Instructors
(updated 1/8/2009)

Adding Students to Blackboard at the beginning of the semester

Please submit to me via the Blackboard Course Enrollment Request the MC unique number (example: 1234032T) of the course(s) you are using with Blackboard, along with the corresponding Blackboard ID.

These pages may help you determine where to find your MC unique number and your Blackboard Course ID:

Find MC unique number
Find Blackboard ID

Preparing a previously used course for the next semester

Login to Blackboard and select your course:

Export the gradebook (if you used it) and save it to your computer. This is necessary because when a student is removed from a course or from the Blackboard system, all assessment information for that student account is lost.

To export the gradebook, select the course Control Panel, then Gradebook, then Download Grades. Download the file to your computer.

Archive your course. Select the course Control Panel, then select Archive Course. Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your computer.

Recycle your course being sure all previous students are removed. To recycle a course, select the course, select Control Panel, Recycle Course. Select the appropriate check boxes and Submit.

Drop/Adds

Students who have dropped your course
Instructors are responsible for removing students that have withdrawn from their course(s).

Students who “Late Register”
Please add these students through the control panel of your course (This can only be done if the student already has a Blackboard account)

After searching the system, if the student account is not present, please email me with the student's name, ssn, and the Blackboard course ID of the course that you would like the student added too.

Note: PLEASE, do NOT instruct your students to contact me to add them to your course.

Helpful Links

Blackboard 7.3 Instructor Manual (pdf)

Blackboard 7.3 Instructor Release Notes

Blackboard 7.3 User Manual

System Requirements for Blackboard

How to Export Your Gradebook

How to Recycle Your Course

TurnItIn User Guide

Blackboard.com Quick Tutorials
Select a link below to access Blackboard Quick Tutorials

Content Authoring

Adaptive Release

Course Management

Syllabus Builder

Learning Units

Course Cartridges

Teaching and Learning Tools

Personal Information Management

Discussion Board

Collaboration Tools

Group Projects

Assessments and Surveys

Assignments

Gradebook

Questions or Concerns?
Please contact Dan Buckley at 432-686-4203 or dbuckley@midland.edu

Creating a new course or copying an existing course

Please contact me if you would like a new course created, or an existing course copied.

Using Email in blackboard

If you are using the email system within Blackboard, your students MUST insert their email address in the "personal information" section of Blackboard.

Student Login ID’s and Passwords

The procedure for determining login ID and password can also be found at:
http://www.midland.edu/blackboard/login.php.

Determining student Login ID and Password for Blackboard

Midland College Students:
User ID: 1st initial of first name + first 3 letters of last name + LAST 3 numbers of social security number. Example: JDOE789
Password: social security number,
WITH DASHES.
Example: 123-45-6789

Virtual College of Texas (VCT) Students:
(You are probably a VCT student if you registered through a college other than MC)
User ID: Type VCT- + 1st initial of first name + first 3 letters of last name + last 3 numbers of phone number (Use the phone number that you gave to the institution you registered with)
Example: VCT-JDOE789 (please note that there is a hyphen after "VCT".)
Password: phone number, WITH DASHES
Example: 012-345-6789