{"id":605,"date":"2014-10-08T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acg.edu\/web\/blackboard\/?page_id=605"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:38:17","slug":"course-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/blackboard\/course-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A group under the Control Panel that has all available tools that can be added to the course via Content pages.<\/span>\n\nThe following list is based on the Original View of Blackboard<\/strong>. To see which of the following functions have been changed or deleted in the upgrade click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>\n\nThese tools are :<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Tools<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nDescription<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Achievements<\/span><\/td>\nAn achievement is an indicator of an accomplishment, skill, competency, or interest students can achieve. Create achievements for course completion, a milestone or create a custom achievement.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Announcements<\/a>– Original<\/span><\/td>\nWith announcements, you can present auspicious data basic on course success. You can include, alter, and erase announcements from the Announcements page.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blogs<\/a>– Original<\/span><\/td>\nA blog is basically a personal online journal that is updated frequently and is intended for public use.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Contacts<\/a>– Original<\/span><\/td>\nContacts is a place where you add profile information about yourself and distribute it to the students.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Content Market Tools<\/span><\/td>\nTools for managing partner content in your course.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Course Calendar<\/a>-Original<\/span><\/td>\nCourse calendar is used to provide students with dates for course-related events.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CourseEval<\/a>– Original<\/span><\/td>\nElectronic questionnaire<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Discussion Board<\/a>– Original<\/span><\/td>\nDiscussion board tool, is used to create a virtual discussion where course members can replicate the discussions that take place in the traditional classroom.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Glossary<\/a> – Original<\/span><\/td>\nEach course has its own glossary of terms, that consist of terms and definitions.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Journals<\/a>– Original<\/span><\/td>\nJournals are a personal space for students to communicate privately with the instructor.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Link Checker<\/a>-Original<\/span><\/td>\nChecks for broken weblinks in the course.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MS Teams<\/span><\/td>\nBring educators and students together with online meetings in Teams.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Self and Peer Assessment<\/a>-Original<\/span><\/td>\nSelf and Peer Assessment\u00a0is intended to have students assess their own or each others work.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Send Email<\/a>-Original<\/span><\/td>\nThe email tool allows you to send email to other people in your course from within Blackboard Learn.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tasks<\/a> – Original<\/span><\/td>\nThe Tasks tool is used to organize projects or activities that are refereed as tasks.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tests, Surveys, and Pools<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nSets of questions that are graded to measure student performance.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wikis<\/a>– Original<\/span><\/td>\nWikis allow course members to contribute and modify pages of course related materials.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milestones – Ultra <\/span><\/td>\nMilestones allow teachers to motivate students by acknowledging specific accomplishments during a course with the method of Badges.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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