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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Organizing Your Course</title>
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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Presenting Content to Students</title>
            <description>2-page handout detailing Blackboard features for presenting content to students: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/presentingcontent.pdf"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/presentingcontent.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Creating Course Content</title>
            <description>2-page handout detailing Blackboard features for creating course content: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/creatingcoursecontent.pdf"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/creatingcoursecontent.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Getting Started with the Grade Center</title>
            <description>2-page handout detailing steps to get started with the new Blackboard Grade Center: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/gettingstartedwiththegradecenter.pdf"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/gettingstartedwiththegradecenter.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Keeping Students Informed</title>
            <description>2-page handout detailing Blackboard features for communicating with students: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/keepingstudentsinformed.pdf"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/keepingstudentsinformed.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Measuring Student Performance</title>
            <description>2-page handout detailing Blackboard features for measuring student performance: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/measuringstudentperformance.pdf"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/measuringstudentperformance.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Reusing and Reorganizing Courses</title>
            <description>2-page handout detailing Blackboard features for reusing and reorganizing course content: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/reusingandreorganizingcourses.pdf"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/reusingandreorganizingcourses.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>Blackboard 8.0 Quick Guide: Universal Design</title>
            <description>2-page handout detailing Blackboard's commitment to providing accessible applications and to promoting the principles of universal design: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/universaldesign.pdf"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguides/universaldesign.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>Blackboard Version 8.0 Introduction Handout</title>
            <description>Slides accompanying the Blackboard Version 8.0: Introduction to New Features and Tools presentation</description>
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            <title>Blackboard Version 7.3 Introduction Handout</title>
            <description>Online documentation accompanying the Blackboard Version 7.3: Introduction to New Features and Tools presentation</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:39:54 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Blackboard Version 7.1 Introduction Handout</title>
            <description>Slides accompanying the Blackboard Version 7.1: Introduction to New Features and Tools presentation</description>
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                <![CDATA[This is an example of the types of handouts to be added here. This <a href="http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/resources/quickguides.shtml">Blackboard Faculty Quick Guide</a> can be accessed in any of the following formats:<br />
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<li>PDF - <a href="http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguide/BbFacultyQuickGuide.pdf">http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguide/BbFacultyQuickGuide.pdf</a></li>
<li> Flash - <a href="http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguide/BbFacultyQuickGuide.swf">http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguide/BbFacultyQuickGuide.swf</a></li>
<li> Word - <a href="http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguide/BbFacultyQuickGuide.doc">http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/quickguide/BbFacultyQuickGuide.doc</a></li>]]>
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