Blackboard Basics
UTC Online which is powered by Blackboard Learn is UTC's Learning Management System that faculty can use to deliver course content, communicate with students, enable student interaction, and provide online assignments and assessments. UTC Online can be used for traditional face-to-face courses, fully online, or for hybrid courses. Instructors can use UTC Online to fully engage students in learning activities while reducing some of the administrative overhead of managing a class. Below are a few resources that will help you get started integrating UTC Online in your courses:
UTC Online Home Page
- Access UTC Online PDF
- Navigate UTC Online PDF
- Personalize and Organize UTC Online's Main Page with color and Modules PDF
- Customize the My Courses module (hide courses you are not teaching and reorder courses) PDF
- Set Notification settings (i.e. receive email summaries of various transactions that occured in your course such as Assignments submissions) PDF
Course Home Page and Menu
- Access your course PDF
- Navigate your course PDF
- Add Course Modules to your Home Page PDF VIDEO
- Customize your Course Menu PDF
- Add Library Reserves to Course Menu PDF
- Turn Edit Mode ON/OFF (quickly view what students see) PDF
- Add course banner VIDEO
- Select course entry point (default is Home Page) VIDEO
Course Content
- Overview of Course Content building tools PDF
- Create an Item PDF
- Create a File PDF
- Use the Text Editor PDF
- How to safely copy and paste from Microsoft Word into Blackboard PDF VIDEO
Control Panel Features
- Add a test student (you will be able to log in as a student in your own class) PDF
- Make course available PDF
- Export from Bb 8 and Import into Bb 9 PDF
Remember the chevron 
is your friend and will allow you to make changes right where you are working.
