Documentation and Video Tutorials

The following guides provide help and instruction for staff using MyAberdeen.

Quick Guides are designed to offer step by step help to get you started using common tools and applications within your MyAberdeen courses along.

These are complemented by Blackboard’s own documentation and videos which offer both broad introductory guides and in-depth instruction for specific tools and features that you will encounter within the learning environment.

Guides for using MyAberdeen

• Building Your MyAberdeen Course – The Basics (PDF, Word)
• Creating an Assignment (PDF, Word)
• Creating a Multiple Choice Test (PDF, Word)
• TurnitinUK (Integration with MyAberdeen) (PDF, Word)
• My Aberdeen - Managing Your MyAberdeen Course List (PDF, Word)
• QuestionMark Perception Tests (PDF, Word)
• Wikis (PDF, Word)
• Blogs (PDF, Word)
• Journals (PDF, Word)
• Creating Groups (PDF, Word)
• Discussion Boards (PDF, Word)

Blackboard Video Tutorials and Documentation

Overviews

• Understanding and Building Your Course
  

• Working in the Course Environment
  • The New 2012 Theme for Service Pack 8
  • The Course Environment(termed Module Environment in Learn 9.1)
  • Getting Started with the Course Environment
  • Course to Course Navigation(new for 2012 Serice Pack 8 interface)
  • Blackboard Instructors Manual for Learn 9.1(Online)
  • Blackboard Instructors Manual for Learn 9.1
  • Getting Started with Your Migrated Course from WebCT

• Building Your Course
  • Getting Started with Course Content
  • Editing the Course Homepage
  • A Tour of the Course Files Area
  • Attatching Course Files to a Content Item
  • Using the Text Editor
  • Linking to Tools
  • Attaching Files to an Item
  • Adding Web Content(html packages)
  • Making Tools Available
  • Using Web 2.0 Tools within your Course (PDF, Recording)

• The Content Collection
  • Creating a Folder in the Content
  • Uploading Files to the Content Collection
  • Uploading a Zipped Folder to the Content Collection
  • Downloading Files in a Zipped Package from the Content Collection
  • Emailing a File from the Content Collection

• Communication and Collaboration Tools
  • Discussion Board Tour
  • Grading a Discussion Forum
  • Grading a Discussion Thread
  • Creating a Group
  • Creating Group Sets
  • Creating an Announcment

• Assessment Tools
  • Creating a Test
  • Customising the Grade Centre View
  • Creating a Grade Rule
  • Anonymous Marking
  • Creating a Grade Centre Report
  • Downloading Assignments

• Blackboard Collaborate
  • Bb Collaborate Documentation and Video Tutorials