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Blackboard Learn Administration

By : Terry Patterson
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Blackboard Learn Administration

By: Terry Patterson

Overview of this book

Blackboard Learn is web application software that allows users around the world to participate in training and educational opportunities. This software is utilized in high schools, college campuses, corporations, and government entities."Blackboard Learn Administration" navigates both novice and experienced administrators through the simple and complex parts of the E-Learning portal.Readers go step-by-step with the author from planning and installing a Blackboard Learn instance to supporting and administrating a system with courses and users.The book starts with how to plan, install, and brand a Blackboard Learn instance. Readers then learn about the creation and management of courses and users. You then learn about the tools and controls that administrator's possess within Blackboard Learn. Readers also review how to improve security and performance within their system. You then dip into complex topics such as integrating Blackboard Learn with other information systems and publisher websites.Administrating Blackboard Learn educates the reader on the fundamental tools and tasks for basic administration, while explaining complex options that expert administrators want to tackle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blackboard Learn Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Creating Users in Blackboard Learn
Appendix
Index

Creating courses using the batch course creation tool


We have walked through the process to create a single course, however we as administrators normally need to create more than one course at a time. This situation requires the use of the batch course creation tool within Blackboard. Before we create our courses using this tool, we must create the file that lists these courses.

The file will be delimited using a comma, tab, or colon to separate the different fields within our file. Using our file, we can add information such as COURSE ID, course name, course description, button style/color, initial announcement, announcement title, and course category. Each of our courses may not require all this information and we can leave some of these items blank. The only items required by our instance are the course id and course name. Here is a sample of a batch course creation file that is comma delimited.

TEST-COURSE-001,Test Course A
TEST-COURSE-002,Test Course B,This is the course description...