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Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services. Learn how to utilize the Blackboard System to distribute accessible files to your students, securely! By Kamran Rasul ( rasul@american.edu ). Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services. About us What is Blackboard?
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Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services Learn how to utilize the Blackboard System to distribute accessible files to your students, securely! By Kamran Rasul (rasul@american.edu)
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services • About us • What is Blackboard? • How we use it? • Demonstration • Resources • Questions & Answers
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services About us
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services What is Blackboard?
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services How we use it? • Kurzweil files • PDFs (articles, books, notes) • Word/text formatted files • Audio files • Scanned notes • Publishers’ electronic copy(s) (Multiple files are compressed and delivered)
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services How we use it? • First contact your on-campus Blackboard administrator to set you up • Create the course [ACCESSING HIGHER GROUNDS (DSS-901- • F2009] • Login/Password • Very Important: Set restrictions | Select Control Panel | Select Manage Course Menu | Recommended user modify not remove.
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services How we use it? • Select Enroll User • Select List/Modify Users • Select Course Document | Select Edit View (located top right corner) • Select Add Item or Folder (these can be combined) • Set Adaptive Release restrictions ASAP. • Adaptive Release | Scroll to Membership | Select Browse | Pop up window will open
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services How we use it? • Use Search options to find student(s) | Select Submit (top right corner) • | Window will close • Returns you back to Adaptive Release options screen | Scroll to the • bottom of the screen | Select Submit • A message will appears “The Rule was updated successfully” | Click OK • When you return back to Course Documents | Edit View “Enabled: • Adaptive Release “ will now appear below the file name • Use Advanced Release option to remove all Adaptive Release messages
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services Resources • On-line Digital Downloads • Bookshare, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive and • etc… • E-book readers • Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, Plastic Logic and etc..
Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services Questions & Answers