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Faculty & Staff Technology Tutorials and Training Guides

BlackboardRespondusStudymate ~ Lockdown BrowserTurnitin
MicroGrade ~ MS Outlook ~ ExpoWikiBlogPodcasting ~ Search LX  ~ Docushare

Blackboard Tutorials

Blackboard is a Web-based course-management system designed to allow students and faculty to participate in classes delivered online or use online materials and activities to complement face-to-face teaching. Blackboard enables instructors to provide students with course materials, discussion boards, virtual chat, online quizzes, an academic resource center, and more.
 

Respondus Tutorials

Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard.

Studymate Tutorials

Studymate is an authoring tool that lets you create 10 Flash-based activities and games using four simple templates. The Flash activities are usable with any web server or can be published directly to Blackboard.
B-CU Tutorials Respondus, Inc. Tutorials for StudyMate
Available November 15, 2007

Lockdown Browser Tutorials

Lockdown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. Students are locked into the assessment and are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications.

Turnitin Quick Tutorials

Turnitin is an Internet-based plagiarism detection service created by iParadigms, LLC. Turnitin checks for possible plagiarism by comparing submitted papers to several databases. It scans its own database, and also has licensing agreements with large academic proprietary databases.
 
B-CU Tutorials Turnitin, Inc. Tutorials
Turnitin Training Guide User Guides and Training
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MicroGrade
MicroGrade, by Chariot Software Group, is a time-saving productivity grading tool that automates the tasks associated with grading, attendance, and reporting.
 
B-CU Tutorials
MicroGrade Training Guide
Chariot Software Group Tutorials

MicroGrade Training PowerPoint

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Microsoft Outlook Tutorials & Guides
Use Microsoft Outlook is efficiently manage and archive your B-CU webmail.  The tutorials and guides below will help you set up Outlook to work with B-CU Webmail.
 
Expo Tutorials & Guides
The Expo tool in Blackboard, provided by Learning Objects, Inc., is a profile-creation application available to all users of Blackboard at B-CU.
 
B-CU Tutorials
Expo 
Learning Objects, Inc. Tutorials

User Guide for Expo LX

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Wiki Tutorials & Guides
The Wiki tool in Blackboard, provided by Learning Objects, Inc., allows users to create wiki-style websites.
 
B-CU Tutorials
Available November 15, 2007
Learning Objects, Inc. Tutorials

User Guide for Teams (Wiki) LX

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Blog Tutorials & Guides
The Blog tool in Blackboard, provided by Learning Objects, Inc., allows users to create web logs, or "blogs".
 
B-CU Tutorials
Available November 15, 2007
Learning Objects, Inc. Tutorials

User Guide for Journal (Blog) LX

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Podcast LX Tutorials & Guides
The Podcasting tool in Blackboard, provided by Learning Objects, Inc., allows users to download podcasts created by instructors for playback on media players.
 
B-CU Tutorials
Available November 15, 2007
Learning Objects, Inc. Tutorials

User Guide for Podcast LX

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Search LX Tutorials & Guides
The Search tool in Blackboard, provided by Learning Objects, Inc., allows users to search for content in their courses.
 
B-CU Tutorials
Available November 15, 2007
Learning Objects, Inc. Tutorials

User Guide for Search LX

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Docushare
Docushare, by Xerox Corp., is a Web-based application that allows users to easily and efficiently manage content including document and other types of files, calendars, discussion boards, Web links, and more.  Docushare is available to B-CU faculty and staff on a limited basis and may only be accessed by account holders.  For more information, contact us.