On-line Tutorials
All Copyright Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Microsoft Word:
Microsoft Word How-To (Flash - Multiple Tutorials)
Tracking Changes in Word (Flash)

Introduction to Comments in Word (Flash)

Microsoft PowerPoint:
Microsoft PowerPoint How-To (Flash - Multiple Tutorials)
Adding Narration in PowerPoint (Flash - Multiple Tutorials)

Converting PowerPoint to Flash Process (Flash)

General Tutorials for Faculty/Staff:
Blackboard 7 Overview (PDF)

How do I copy one course (i.e. an old course) to my new classes?

Instructor Manual

Student Manual

Why does SMU create two course ID's for each class?

Faculty In-Depth:

Adding Course Content

Adding Documents

Organizing Content in Folders
Adding Internal Course-Links
Creating Surveys
Creating Quizzes and Tests
Making Quizzes, Tests, and Surveys Available
Adding Terms to Glossary Manager
Creating and Managing Groups

Changing Look & Feel of Courses

Creating Animated Banners (Flash) GIF ANIMATOR

Changing Modules on the Welcome Page
Adding and Changing Modules on the Welcome Page

How do I just get rid of all of the courses in the My Course Box?
Changing Order of Buttons Within Courses
Changing Names of Buttons Within Courses

Managing Courses

Deleting Students from Courses

Archiving Courses

Copping Course Content from Old to New
Turning Courses off/on  in Blackboard
Recycling Courses

Communication Tools

Digital Drop Box (Flash)

Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Creating and Managing Groups

Gradebook

Using the Gradebook
Important Issue if you use Discussion Boards

Assessment Tools

Creating Surveys
Creating Quizzes and Tests
Making Quizzes, Tests, and Surveys Available
Generating Usage Statistics for a Class
What is Safeassign?
How do you set up Safeassign in Blackboard?
How do you set up a direct submission to Safeassign?

Tutorials for Students:
Introduction to Blackboard
Digital Drop Box
Using the Discussion Board
Editing Personal Information/Password (Working)

Faculty TUTORIALS:

Student Learning

Engaging Active learning by using the Tegrity pen in new ways
Short Tegrity Demo (Flash)

General Software

Tegrity: What is new? (Fall 2007)
Tegrity General Introduction
Tegrity General Overview of System
How to use the Tegrity Toolbar
How to launch & Setup Tegrity Part 1
How to launch & Setup Tegrity Part 2
Tegrity Podcasting
Using RSS Feed with Tegrity
RSS In Plain English (This is a good YouTube Video from leelefever)
Using Additional Video
Editing and Closed Captioning

Specific Hardware

M285 Demo of Driver update
Using the Tegrity Multimedia Classrooms
Working

Student TUTORIALS:

What is Tegrity?
How do I view a Tegrity recording?
How to add the Firefox extension?
Tegrity Guidelines and Documents
Student FAQ

Using the Multi-Media Switcher (Flash)

Logging In and Inbox Basics
The Webmail Address Book

Composing Messages and Attaching Files
Using the Webmail Calendar
Sharing Webmail Schedules/Calendars

Creating Rules - e.g. Vacation, Filtering SPAM, Automated Responses

Download Email Off-line Storage
Synchronization of Webmail (Not Completed)

 

Logging in and Navigation Basics
Lookup Class Details
Financial and Other Tasks (Working)