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Student Access to Edit Course

Do you have a graduate or teaching assistant that assists you in building and managing your Blackboard course? To give a student access to your course, simply fill out the Blackboard Request Form on the IT Website. The TA/GA option adds the Teach tab and all of its functionality while the Faculty option adds the Build and Teach tab.

NBC Learn Access

Are you looking for a short video to introduce a concept you’re about to cover in class or maybe a photograph of Neil Armstrong? If so, check out the NBC Learn Archives which contains thousands of videos, historic newsreels, primary source documents, photographs and more available to instructors, researchers and students.

Tegrity Update 2012

Did you know UCA has a platform available that provides online lecture capture, student recording, and remote proctoring services? Tegrity can be used in any Blackboard course.

Blackboard Backup Time Change

Effective March 28, the weekly backup of the Blackboard learning management system will occur each Monday morning beginning at 3:30 AM. The Blackboard system is unavailable during the backup process (2-3 hours).

Tegrity Connect

Did you know that the lecture capture software, Tegrity, includes a chatting feature that both the instructor and students can use? To access Tegrity Connect (chat), click on the little button (looks like a blue head/shoulders) just to the left of the Tegrity logo.

Respondus 4.0 Test Creation Software

Do you have the need to create an exam or survey for both a distance course and a face-to-face class? Or do you need to create multiple versions of an exam (print or online)? Maybe you just don’t like the format for creating questions in Blackboard and would like to try a new test creation software that will upload your completed exam to Blackboard with all of your exam settings complete..

Exam Question Titles

Did you know you can add titles to questions you create for Blackboard assessments? You have the option to show or hide these titles for students (so as to not unintentionally give the answer away).