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Create Sign-up List & Setup Groups
Creating Sign-up List |
Sign-up List is useful when you need to set office hours
with students. Sometimes you may want to setup student group
pages based on the groups they signed up to. You can make it
by combining Sign-up List and setting up groups in
Blackboard.
It's easy to create a Sign up list in
your Blackboard course - just go to a course content area,
Edit View, choose Sign-up List from the
dropdown, then follow the menu to create a Sign-up list.
Students just click the link into the list, and click Sign
up now. If there are empty spaces left in the list (you
define these when you set it up - can set limits on
attendance and create a wait list in case someone drops
their spot). Make sure let student double check his/her name
be showing in the list.
Instructors and TAs will get a toolbar which allows them to
email the list, export it to Excel, turn the participants
into a Blackboard Group with a couple of clicks.
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Creating and Managing Groups |
You can setup Groups for students so that they can have
Group Discussion Board, Exchange Files and send emails to
group users.
The students cannot create their own Group pages. The
instructor has to setup the Groups within which students can
carry on discussions. To create groups, go to course Control
Panel -> Manage Groups under User Management area -> Add
Group -> Select the Group Options and Submit.
The group is created without members. To add members to the
group that's been created, select Modify Group button and
hit on Search button to locate the students in the course,
then select users to add them the group. After users are
assigned to groups, students can see their own group page
from Group menu in a course.
However, if you have many students in course and have
several groups to manage, or want to randomize the selection
of members for groups, you may want to use the
Advanced Group Management tool instead. View the
above quick guide for details.
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