Documentation:Connect
Connect was decommissioned on August 31, 2018 and is no longer supported.
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Resources by Tools
Course Content
Blackboard Drive
Content Area
Content Collection
Content Items
Course Homepage
Course Menu
Course Reserves
Kaltura
Mashups
Syllabus
Workflows and Processes
Workflows and processess in creating and managing course content:
Assess Student Learning
Assignments
Clickers
Respondus
Rubrics
Tests, Surveys, and Pools
Communicate and Collaborate
Announcements
Blackboard IM
Blogs
Discussion Board
iPeer
Groups
Journals
Messages
UBC Blogs
Category Connect UBC Blogs not found
Voice Tools
See Blackboard Collaborate Voice Authoring
Web Conferencing (Blackboard Collaborate)
Wikis
Course Management
Early Warning System
FIle Security
Grade Center
Monitor Student Performance
Self-Service
Category Connect Self-Service not found
Resources by Role
Instructors
Students
ISS
Professional Development
Connect Institute
Drop-ins
Other Resources
Archived Resources
Resources from previous websites:
Copyright
eLearning Toolkit
Known Issues
See also Resolved Issues:
FAQs
Migration
Miscellaneous Resources
Non-tool specific resources:
Project Information
Pages related to information on the LMS Project
Quicksheets
Pages intended as overviews to different tools and features.
Resolved Issues
See also Known Issues
Resources Index
Pages used as an index on http://elearning.ubc.ca/connect
Technical Information
User Interface
Resources to orient instructors and students with the Connect user interface:
Full List of Resources
- 10 Things to Know About Connect for ISS
- 10 Things to Know About Connect for Instructors
- 10 Things to Know About Connect for Students
- Access the Student View Tool (How To)
- Accessing Non-CWL Services
- Add Achievements in Connect(How to)
- Add Columns to the Grade Center (How To)
- Add Events to Your Calendar (How To)
- Add a Banner to Your Course Entry Point (How To)
- Add a Flickr Photo Mashup to Your Course (How To)
- Add a URL to Your Course (How To)
- Add a Weblink to your Course (How to)
- Add a Wimba Voice Authoring Mashup to Your Course (How To)
- Add a YouTube Video Mashup to Your Course (How To)
- Adding the Student Orientation to Connect course
- Announcements and Scheduling
- Assess Student Learning Resources Index
- Assess Student Learning Resources Index/Assignments
- Assess Student Learning Resources Index/Clickers
- Assess Student Learning Resources Index/Respondus Quiz
- Assess Student Learning Resources Index/Rubrics
- Assess Student Learning Resources Index/Tests Surveys and Pools
- Assess Student Learning Resources Index/ a Respondus Quiz (How to)
- Assessments
- Assessments Guide
- Assessments and Monitoring Student Learning
- Assign an External Column in the Grade Center (How To)
- Assignments
- Assignments Guide
- Assignments Guide/Strategies
- Attach Files to Content Items (How to)
- Attach a Rubric with a Course Activity (How to)
- Beginning of Term FAQ for Instructors
- Blogs Guide
- Blogs Guide/Tips for an Effective Blog
- Blogs and Journals
- Build a Content Area (How To)
- Build a Course Module Page (How To)
- Building Course Content
- Calendar Quicksheet
- Change Discussion Forum Settings (How To)
- Change Email Privacy Options (How to)
- Change Your Personal Information (How To)
- Change the Course Start Date (How to)
- Check Your Grades (How To)
- Clear a Student's Test Attempt (How to)
- Clickers
- Comment on a Blog Entry (How To)
- Comment on a Journal Entry (How To)
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Announcements
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Blogs
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Discussions
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Email
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Groups
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Instant Messaging
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Journals
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Messages
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Web Conferencing
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/Wikis
- Communicate and Collaborate Resources Index/iPeer
- Communicating with Students
- Complete the Copyright Form (How to)
- Complete the Copyright Form (How to)/Complete the Copyright Form
- Connect Migration FAQs for Instructors
- Connect Migration FAQs for Instructors/Is there training available for instructors
- Content Collection UI
- Content Editor Quicksheet
- Content and Community
- Copyright Metadata Template
- Copyright Metadata Template/Bulk Copyright Editor
- Course Content Resources Index
- Course Content Resources Index/Content Areas
- Course Content Resources Index/Content Collection and Copyright
- Course Content Resources Index/Content Items
- Course Content Resources Index/Course Homepage
- Course Content Resources Index/Course Menu
- Course Content Resources Index/Course Reserves
- Course Content Resources Index/Kaltura
- Course Content Resources Index/Manage Content
- Course Content Resources Index/Mashups
- Course Content Resources Index/Voice Authoring
- Course Environment for Instructors UI
- Course Environment for Students UI
- Course Management Resources Index
- Course Management Resources Index/Course Availability
- Course Management Resources Index/Global Navigation
- Course Management Resources Index/Grade Center
- Course Management Resources Index/Monitor Student Performance
- Create Assignments (How to)
- Create Average Calculated Column in the Grade Center (How To)
- Create Categories in the Grade Center (How To)
- Create Groups in iPeer (How to)
- Create Manual Enroll Groups (How To)
- Create Minimum or Maximum Calculated Column in the Grade Center (How To)
- Create Random Enroll Groups (How To)
- Create Self Enroll Groups (How To)
- Create Student Profiles (How to)
- Create Total Calculated Column in the Grade Center (How To)
- Create Weighted Calculated Column in the Grade Center (How To)
- Create a BlackBoard IM Account (How To)
- Create a Blank HTML Page (How To)
- Create a Blog (How To)
- Create a Blog Entry (How To)
- Create a Calculated Formula Question (How to)
- Create a Calculated Numeric Question (How to)
- Create a Calculated Weighted Column (How To)
- Create a Content Folder (How To)
- Create a Content Item (How To)
- Create a Content Pass
- Create a Course Link (How to)
- Create a Discussion Board Post (How To)
- Create a File Response Question (How to)
- Create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks Test Question (How To)
- Create a Fill-in-the-Blank Test Question (How To)
- Create a Grading Rubric (How to)
- Create a Hot Spot Question (How to)
- Create a Journal (How To)
- Create a Jumbled Sentence Question (How to)
- Create a Learning Module (How To)
- Create a Lesson Plan (How To)
- Create a Likert Question (How to)
- Create a Matching Test Question (How To)
- Create a Multiple Answer Question (How to)
- Create a Multiple Choice Test Question (How To)
- Create a New Discussion Board Forum (How To)
- Create a New Thread (How To)
- Create a New Thread in a Discussion Board (How To)
- Create a Quiz Bowl Question (How to)
- Create a Rubric (How to)
- Create a Short Answer Test Question (How To)
- Create a Survey (How to)
- Create a Syllabus (How To)
- Create a Test (How To)
- Create a Test Pool (How To)
- Create a Tool Link (How To)
- Create a True or False Test Question (How To)
- Create a UBC Blogs Course Blog (How to)
- Create a Wimba Voice Board (How to)
- Create an Announcement (How To)
- Create an Either Or Question (How to)
- Create an Essay Question (How To)
- Create an Ordering Test Question (How To)
- Create an iPeer Course (How to)
- Create an iPeer Event (How to)
- Create and Edit a Blog Entry (How To)
- Create and Edit a Journal Entry (How To)
- Create and Edit a Wiki Page (How To)
- Create and Edit iPeer Evaluations (How to)
- Create and Edit iPeer Surveys (How to)
- Create and Modify Sign-up Sheets (How to)
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)/About Section
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)/Accessing the Badges
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)/Achievements on Connect
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)/Define Triggers (for Achievements)
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)/Select Reward
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)/Why Using Badges
- Create and manage Achievements in Connect(How to)/Why Using Badges?
- Customize Connect Modules
- Customize the My Connect Page (How To)
- Date Management
- Delete a UBC Blogs Course Blog (How to)
- Delete a column from the Grade Center (How To)
- Delete and Copy Files in the Content Collection (How to)
- Discussion Board
- Discussion Board/Strategies
- Discussion Quicksheet
- Download Assignments (How To)
- Download Files to the Grade Center (How To)
- Download and Install Respondus Quiz (How to)
- Drop-In Sessions Schedule Okanagan
- Drop-in Sessions
- Drop-in Sessions Schedule Vancouver
- Edit Course Content (How to)
- Edit HTML Files Using Blackboard Drive (How to)
- Edit HTML Files Using Blackboard Drive (How to)/Access
- Edit Notification Settings (How to)
- Edit a Test Pool (How To)
- Edit the Copyright Status of Multiple Files (How to)
- Edit the Copyright Status of Multiple Files (How to)/Access the Edit Copyright Function
- Edit the Copyright Status of Multiple Files (How to)/Verify the Changes
- Effective Practices for Creating and Delivering Tests in Connect
- Effective Practices for Taking Tests in Connect
- Embed Objects in Your Course (How To)
- Embed Stylesheets into Course Content (How to)
- Enable BBIM in Your Course (How To)
- Enable Daily Email Digest (How to)
- Enable iPeer (How to)
- End of Term FAQ for Instructors
- Enter Grades in the Grade Center (How To)
- Examples
- Exchange Files in a Group (How To)
- Export Your Connect Calendar to External Calendar Applications (How To)
- Face to Face Drop-in Sessions
- Faculty Migration Plans
- Filter the Needs Grading Page (How To)
- Filtering Course Availability Report
- Freeze Columns in the Grade Center (How To)
- General Resources Index
- General Resources Index/Connect User Interface
- Generate Course Reports (How To)
- Get Started
- Getting Started
- Getting Started with Connect
- Getting Started with the New LMS
- Global Navigation Quicksheet
- Global Navigation Quicksheet/Overview of Features
- Grade Assignments (How to)
- Grade Course and Group Wikis (How To)
- Grade Individual and Group Blogs and Journals (How To)
- Grade a Discussion Board Forum (How To)
- Grade a Discussion Board Thread (How To)
- Hide Content (How to)
- Hide Unenrolled Students in the Grade Center (How To)
- Hide columns in the Grade Center (How To)
- How to Create Groups in Connect and sync to iPeer
- How to create an eportfolio
- How to use Anonymous and Delegated Grading in Connect
- How to use Self and Peer Assessment in Connect
- Import a Rubric (How to)
- Improved Student View Quicksheet
- Improved Student View Quicksheet 2015
- Install Blackboard Drive on Mac(How to)
- Instructor FAQs
- Instructor Print Resources
- Instructor Resources
- Item Analysis Quicksheet
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Adaptive Release Missing Important Conditions
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Add Users Link Does Not Work
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Administrator role and Course restores
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Alignments Options Not Disabled
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Auditor role has Builder role privileges to the Discussion Forums
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/BlackboardCollaborate
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Calculated Numeric Questions
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Can not access Grade Center
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Changing Quiz Names in Grade Centre
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Course Style Defaults to Black on Black Menu
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Creating Groups - Viewing Groups in Grade Centre
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Discussions adaptive release features
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Discussions file attachments
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Drag and Drop with Mulitiple Files
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Editing Migrated Rubrics
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Email - Faculty and Staff who are Alumni
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Error Message Cannot Be Copied
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Exporting test file to Content Collections Folder
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Exports with a Sub Header and Content Area with Same Name Import Incorrectly
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Extra Spaces at end of HTML pages
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/File Permissions
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Firefox 19 and Grade Center Column Reordering
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Grade Center download - Graded Items do not appear in Multiple attempts scenario
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Grade Center download only contains "in progress" instead of student grade
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Grade Center download only contains in progress
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Grading Quiz Questions
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Group Assignment Submission Downloads
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Group Wiki Listed Multiple Times
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/HTML in Assessment Answers
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Hiding a Grade Column from Student's view in My Grades Tool
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Highest Grade Setting Impacts Attempt Statistics and Download Results
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Images in Test pool question
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Instructor Email
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Mass Course Creation and SIS sections status
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Message Email Tool
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Missing Permissions for Secondary Instructors
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Multiple Answers
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Multiple attempt assignment submission
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Needs Grading error message
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Node selection is forgotten when you return to the "Courses" screen after editing a course
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Node selection is forgotten when you return to the Courses
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Opening Grade Center in separate tab or window
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Ordering Questions
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/PDFs in Firefox 8
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Printing from Grade Center
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Process for Merged Enrollment Courses
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Removing Adaptive Release
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Reordering Courses in My Courses Module
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Replies are not visible in Discussion thread
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Reusable Object
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Rubrics Export
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Save as Draft
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Saving in the Grade Centre
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Secondary Display for Grade Centre Column cannot be cleared
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Secure Content Warning (Internet Explorer)
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Self Enroll Group Sets
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Send Email to Teaching Assistants
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Showing Quiz Dates
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Sort Users
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Statistcs for Question Sets
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Statistics Tracking for Content in a Content Area
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Student View
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Students to do Notification do not show for migrated assignments or tests
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Synching the Grade Centre with a Spreadsheet
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/System Admin Course Styles Edit Defaults to Black on Black Menu
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/System Caching
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/TA Course Access
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Themes
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Unread Blogs in What's New Module
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Updating Open Quizzes)
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Uploaded files are not saved in order
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Voice Authoring
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Voice Email Tool
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/Web links tool not working in Learning Modules
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/ Text Editor (VTBE) issues
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/audiitorrole
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/file dates not updated
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds/login issues
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds for ISS and Support Staff
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds for Instructors
- Known Issues, Gotchas and Workarounds for Students
- LMS for Faculty
- LMS for Faculty/Adding External Media
- LMS for Faculty/Before You Start Your Course
- LMS for Faculty/Blackboard at UBC
- LMS for Faculty/Overview
- LMS for Faculty/Support
- LMS for Faculty/Technical Requirements
- Learn 9.1 Instructor and Student Resources
- Link Groups (How To)
- Link Wiki Pages (How To)
- Log in (How to)
- Make Reusable Objects Visible to Students (How to)
- Make a Course Available to Students (How to)
- Manage Course Files (How To)
- Manage Discussion Forum Roles (How To)
- Manage Discussion Thread Actions (How To)
- Manage Grade History and Reports (How To)
- Manage Group Tools (How To)
- Manage Messages (How to)
- Migrated Course Checklist
- Migrated Course Checklist/Get Acquainted with Connect
- Migrated Course Checklist/Introduction
- Migrated Course Checklist/One Last Look
- Migrated Course Checklist/Review Your Communications and Discussions
- Migrated Course Checklist/Review Your Course Content
- Migrated Course Checklist/Review the Assignments and Assessments
- Migrated Course Checklist/Review the Grade Center
- Mobile Testing
- Moderate Forums (How To)
- Monitor Student Performance via the Performance Dashboard (How To)
- Monitoring Student Achievement
- Move Content (How to)
- Move a Course Item (How to)
- Navigate between Courses (How to)
- Note on File Security and Protection of Privacy
- One Last Look Before Class Starts
- Organize Your Discussion Board Posts (How To)
- Organizing Grade Center
- Overwrite files in Content Collection(How to)
- Perform a Course Copy (How to)
- Performance Dashboard Guide
- Performance Dashboard Guide/Strategies
- Personalize Your Course List Module (How to)
- Post a File (How to)
- Printing in Connect(How to)
- Program Roadmap
- Project Roadmap
- Questions About Copyright
- Rate Posts (How To)
- Recommended System Requirements
- Release Content (How to)
- Rename Links on the Left Menu (How to)
- Reorder Columns in the Grade Center (How To)
- Reorder Links on the Left Menu (How to)
- Reply to a Discussion Board Thread (How To)
- Resolved Issues
- Resolved Issues/Copy and Paste From Word
- Resolved Issues/Editing Grades in Grade Centre
- Resolved Issues/Editing Migrated HTML Files
- Resolved Issues/Smart Views
- Resolved Issues/Square Brackets in Calculated Questions
- Resolved Issues/Wikis
- Resources
- Resources Index
- Review and Grade Material from the Needs Grading Page (How To)
- Run an Item Analysis on a Test (how-to)
- SP10&11 Global Navigation Quicksheet/Best Practice
- SP10&11 Global Navigation Quicksheet/Intro
- SP10 Errors
- Search and Collect Discussion Board Posts (How To)
- Self Enroll (How To)
- Self Enroll (How To)/How to find
- Self Enroll (How To)/What is
- Send Early Warning Notifications based on a Due Date Rule (How to)
- Send Early Warning Notifications based on a Grade Rule (How to)
- Send Early Warning Notifications based on a Last Access Rule (How to)
- Send Email (How To)
- Send Email (How to)
- Send a Message (How to)
- Set Adaptive Release for Course Content (How to)
- Set Privacy Options (How To)
- Set the Course Home Page (How To)
- Set up Piazza in Connect (How to)
- Setting Your Preferences and Controlling Your Environment
- Setup Your Email (How to)
- Setup the Connect Server in Respondus Quiz (How to)
- Stay Organized by Managing Your Tasks (How To)
- Staying Organized and Communicating
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Adding Removing Modules
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Community Tab
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Copyright Message
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Course List
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Global Navigation
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Info on Persnalization Button
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/My Announcements
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/My Messages
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Tools Module
- Student's My Connect Homepage UI/Whats New
- Student Collaboration
- Student FAQs
- Student Resources
- Student Resources/Before the Course Starts
- Student Resources Index
- Student Resources Index/Before the Course Starts
- Student Resources Index/Communicate and Stay Organized
- Student Resources Index/Course Activities
- Student View iPeer Events (How to)
- Submit Assignments (How To)
- Subscribe to Discussion Board Threads or Forums (How To)
- Sync iPeer Roster to Connect Roster (How to)
- Take a Test Online (How To)
- Teaching Focused Resources
- Teaching Focused Resources/strategies
- Tests Surveys and Pools
- Tips
- Tools in Connect
- Top 10 My Connect Modules for Instructors
- Track Students and View Statistics (How to)
- Transfer Student Groups between Connect and iPeer (How to)
- Transitioning from Vista to Learn 9
- UBC Blogs Quicksheet
- Update Your Email Address in the Student Service Center (How To)
- Upgrade Testing/2014-04 Release
- Upgrade Testing/2014-10 Release
- Upload Files into the Content Collection (How to)
- Upload Files into the Content Collection (How to)/Choose the File Options
- Upload Files to Your Course (How to)
- Upload Files to the Grade Center (How To)
- Uploading Student Grades to Faculty Service Centre(How To)
- Use Inline grading(How to)
- Use Smart Views in the Grade Center (How To)
- Use a Wimba Voice Board (How to)
- Use the Content Editor (How To)
- Use the GroupBuilder Tool
- Uses and Benefits
- Using Wikis in Your Course (How To)
- Using the Discussion Board
- View Your Discussion Board Grade (How To)
- View iPeer Evaluation Results (How to)
- Virtual Drop-in Sessions
- Virtual Drop-ins Schedule
- Vista-Connect Comparison Chart
- What is it
- Where's My Course
- Wiki Guide
- Wiki Guide/strategies
- Wikis
- Work in Groups (How To)
- Working in Your Course
- Working in the Course Environment
- eLearning