Creating Smart Views in Blackboard -A tutorial for UH College of Education faculty and/or staff

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1 Blackboard Smart Views As you provide and view grades, you are obtaining information about how students are performing in your course. You can tailor your view of student progress by creating smart views. A smart view is a focused look at the Grade Center. It shows only the columns that match a set of criteria, and the view is saved for continued use. When the Grade Center includes a great number of students and columns, you can use smart views to quickly find data. Several smart views are available by default, but you can also create your own. You can easily move between the Full Grade Center view and any of the available smart views. You can set a smart view as the default view of the Grade Center and change it at any time. Requirements Internet access, internet browser, active UH CougarNet account or myuh (PeopleSoft) account, and primary instructor for UH course(s) or Teaching Assistant access to UH course(s). What do you want to do? I am an Instructor of Record (or Teaching Assistant) for a University of Houston Blackboard course. I would like to. 1. Create a single smart view in my Blackboard course organized as a group. 2. Create a shortcut in the Full Grade Center to the single group smart view. 3. Use the Blackboard feature to contact the group of students. 1.1 Create a single smart view in my Blackboard course organized as a group Click on Small Groups from the course navigation. If the tool is not available, click on the + (located at the top of the course navigation) and select Tool Link. Provide a name for the tool link (such as Small Groups ), select the Groups type, and Submit. 1.2 Within the Groups page, click on Create. Two major group types are listed: Single Group and Group Set. For the purpose of this tutorial, select Single Group Manual Enroll.

2 1.3 Enter a Name for the group, select or deselect any Tool Availability for the group, and within the Group Options select the option to Create smart view for this group. Click on the Add Users button to select which students will have access to the group. Submit to save. 2.1 Create a shortcut in the Full Grade Center to the single group smart view Expand the Grade Center menu and click on Full Grade Center. When the grade book loads, click on the Manage menu and select Smart Views. 2.2 On the Smart Views page, select the star icon Favorite. to Add as Note. The name of the smart view can be edited as well by clicking on the drop down menu of the title. Click on OK to save changes.

3 2.3 A smart view shortcut menu item is now available within the Grade Center navigation. Click on the smart view shortcut to confirm it only lists the specific students in the single group If all looks good, congratulations! A single group with a smart view shortcut has been successfully created. Note. If a member of the group needs to be added or deleted, click the Small Group course navigation link, click on the drop down menu of the group name, and select Edit Group. Scroll down on the page to view the Membership area. Click on the Add Users button to select which students will have access to the group. or Click on the x to remove users from the group. Submit to save.

4 3.1 Use the Blackboard feature to contact the group of students Click on (Instructor Use) from the course navigation. If the tool is not available, click on the + (located at the top of the course navigation) and select Tool Link. Provide a name for the tool link such as (Instructor Use), select the type, and Submit. 3.2 Click on Select Groups from the Send page.

5 3.3 (1) Click on the group name that is listed within the Available to Select box (2) Use the right arrow to move it within the Selected box. (3) Enter the Subject line (4) Write the body of the . (5) Click on the Submit button to send to the group. Note. All members of the group will be blind copied to the . A copy of the will be sent to the sender as well. If you have any questions regarding the content of this tutorial please contact Blackboard Support ( or the CITE Lab Help desk ( /