Hello All,

I'm a lecturer at Curtin University of Technology in Perth.  I've been using BlackBoard for a number of years for basic teaching and learning but now I am trying to do some advanced stuff and I am finding it very difficult to find any useful information on BB from the manuals, or from the BlackBoard site itself.  

Can someone please tell me where is the best forum to post questions on how to use BlackBoard (as a staff member building a course/site)?  It seems strange that people (like me) are posting questions to this "Suggest a User Group Discussion Board" but, perhaps (like me) they can't find a general forum for discussing how to use BB and issues.  

At the moment, I am looking for some information on the advanced use of tests, particularly the grading of tests.  Specifically, I would like to release the marks for tests that include automatically marked MCQs as well as questions that cannot be automatically marked (e.g. short answer questions) without having to mark the non-MCQ (they are worth 0 marks).  

Thanks in advance for any pointers or suggestions.

Cheers,

Ashley Aitken.

Edit: Sorry I should have mentioned I believe we are using BB Academic Version 8 with the latest updates.