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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

Enrolling users into Blackboard Learn courses


So we've created courses. Our next step is to add users to a course. Blackboard Learn calls this step enrolling; this gives users the key to access the virtual home or apartment within our Blackboard Learn environment that we will use for a course. While instructors have the ability to provide access to users, administrators are also given the same ability. Our enroll options are listed in the course search area when we click on the Courses link in the Courses module in our System Admin tab. When we want to enroll users we have two different options—either add users one at a time, or batch-enroll users using a text file.

Note

Most organizations that use enrollment software such as Student Information System (SIS) or Student Records Systems (SRS) enroll users with the Blackboard Snapshot or SIS Framework integrations. These processes allow us to automate the enrollment process and keep enrollments up to date. We will discuss these options in Chapter...