Move Grade Book Columns

I’ll mention it now and later, Save after moving columns.

While in Grade Book (Teach tab) you will want to click the Reorder Columns button. Click the column checkbox(es) you want to move and then click the move button on the row you want to move the column above.

When done don’t forget to click the Save button at the bottom.

Discussion Counts/Search

Unfortunately the Campus Edition 8 took a step backwards from CE4 in the area of searching discussions; i.e. you can no longer search a specific topic.

What you can do is add the Search tool (from Build or Teach tab > Manage Course > Tools > Search > Save). You can then search the discussion tool for the Author. The search does not allow you to choose a specific topic and compiles all results where you can see the subject title.

In Discussions you can also click on the People Link (button to the right of the Author’s name) and select View Performance Report. This will allow you to see the total messages viewed and sent for a particular student.

Tracking (from Teach tab > Tracking > Student Tracking > select range date > Run Report > Optional - click on student name) will allow you to see how many discussions have been read and posted by each student. Clicking on a student’s name will allow you to see how many messages a student has posted during each session they logged in.

Linking to CE8 from Sungard

If you prefer to have your course open in Sungard when the students click on your course name in MyCourses, and then provide a link to WebCT from there, post a News article that appears on the homepage of your Sungard site, as follows:

Click "News" in the Sungard tool list on the left. Click the "Post an Article" link. Complete the News article dialog box, as follows: Choose "Active" in the Status dropdown menu. Name your article in the Title/Subject line, such as "Access This Course in WebCT." Choose "Article Uses HTML" in the News Article dropdown menu. In the Message box, copy/paste the following HTML code from <a...to...<a> <a href="http://myblackhawk.bhc.edu/cp/ip/login?sys=webct&url=target_sourcedid.id%3A%2F%2F[CRN].[YEAR][TERM]">Please click here to open WebCT.</a> Replace the bracketed information with your course info, as follows: Replace [CRN] with your course's Course Reference Number, omitting the brackets. Replace the [YEAR] with the year the course appears in, omitting the brackets. There needs to be a period . between the YEAR and the TERM (example 84301.200908) Replace [TERM] with 01 for spring, 08 for fall, 05 for June Start, 06 for July Start, omitting the brackets. Click "Post"

Paging Preferences: Allow you to see all students, files, tool items, etc.

Can't see all of the student names, files, tool items, etc. in CE8? Scroll down to the bottom of the window and look for the Paging Preferences button in the lower-right corner. Looks like three cascading pages with the corners turned down. See screenshot below.

Reply Privately in Discussions

With the new version of Campus Edition we have unfortunately lost the Reply Privately button. You could however use the Forward button and browse for the recipient to send them a Mail message.

Who's Online Function

Depending on which browser users are using, from the Tools menu, users should "Delete Browsing History..." in Internet Explorer 7 or "Clear Private Data" in Firefox. Once this is done, all functions of the Who's Online tool should work, including: The "Refresh Now" button, the "Auto-refresh" checkbox, and the "My Status:" update.

Side Notes: We have not yet determined exactly which parts of the history/data needs to be cleared, but I believe the browsing history, forms data, and passwords would not need to be deleted. Simply deleting cookies did not seem to work. Last time I checked the computer labs did not allow history, cache, cookies, etc. to be deleted.

Oh yeah! Users will have to have Java installed. The Check Browser available from the My Blackboard link should notify users of that.