Is anyone interested?  Or maybe there is one and I just didn't find it.  I would love to discuss training best practices and tips. 

I have a large group and I would like to post a scheduling tool that would allow students to see available times for one on one apointments.  Ideally they would be able to schedule available time and it would then show up as busy to anyone else looking - any ideas

I need to find a way to auto-register and enroll several thousand new users into my Bb level 7.1.  I have been able to do this manually with "EventsPro" and "PeopleSoft" but cannot use these applications at this time since they are restricted to either credit or specified non-credit student enrollments.  I need a suggestion of an efficient and relatively inexpensive tool to handle this project.

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.

Hello

I hope this is ok to post here. St. Louis Community  College, Forest Park has an immediate opening for a Senior Instructional Designer. Here is a link to the advertisement:

http://www.stlcc.edu/Jobs/Job_Postings/Sr_Inst_Designer_FP.html

Or contact jpande@stlcc.edu

Thanks.

I am interested in discussing how admins/developers went about the process of intergrating their multiple portal areas of there institution into a single sign-on location. Example: Single sing on projects intergrating Peoplesoft and Blackboard on their campuses.

I miss having what WebCt has - it is called Whose Online and it lets you know when a classmate or instructor is online - they can set the settings to say available or busy ...it's like a chat!

Does Bb have such a feature?

JJClinton III

I have students complete peer evaluations when doing group work.  How could I have them do this on BB - and have the score tally for me? 

to clarify - several students would evaluate one student

Is it possible to set up a system-wide survey in Bb 8 for staff and students, using the Bb survey tool?