January 5th, 2009

Good Morning!

This is my first post of 2009 - I hope that everyone had a great holiday! I hope that you all had a chance to work on your courses over the break, but just in case you didn't I want to alert you of a few changes in Blackboard:

• Over the break we updated to a new version of Blackboard. When you go into find your grade book you will now find the "Grade Center" instead. I will be e-mailing out the new "how to" document on the grade center, but a few pointers are listed below.
• To move stuff around in the Grade Center hover over "Manage" and click on "Organize Grade Center". Use the Drag and Drop Feature on the far left column to sort the assignments by unit and then click "submit" on the lower right.
• To view the total points in the grade book (grade center) you go to the "total" column and select the drop down arrow and then select Column Information.
• The Grade Center does not update as quickly as the grade book. If you update something you will likely need to go back to the control panel and then back into the grade center to see the change you made.

I hope you are all enjoying working on your courses and that you have a great week!

Amy