• Prepare Your Computer
• Prepare content in a course Migrated from OLD RamCT
• Request a Development Course
• Request a RamCT Course
• Change Course Language (e.g. Spanish, French, Japanese, etc.)
• Overview (Workshop Handout)
• Course Life Cycle
• Instructor Teaching Assignments in Aries
• Copy Content to Another RamCT Course
• Enroll a TA, Assistant Instructor, etc. to a RamCT Course
• Create and Add a Test Student Account to a Course
• Open/Make a Course Available or Unavailable to Students
• Standard Course Menu

Training Workshop Handouts

Getting Started Documents from Blackboard.com

• Getting Started with the Course Environment
• Getting Started with a Course Moved from CE8
• Getting Started with Groups
• Getting Started with Assignments
• Getting Started with the Grade Center
• Getting Started with Building a Test

• Academic Integrity TILT website
• Add a Banner to a Course - see page 9 of How To Add Content
• Add and Present Content (Workshop Handout)
• Adaptive Release - control access to content, tests, etc.
• Paste from Word - preserve MS Word formatting in the text editor.
• Backups
• Change Course Order or Hide a Course on the Course List
• Make Course Available to Students
• Icons - this zip file contains many of the images CSU used in old Web and Ram CT.
• Compress Images in PowerPoint and Word
• Video recommendations
  For best performance, please follow TILT's video recommendations.

Announcements

Assignments

• Getting Started with Assignments (Blackboard.com)

Blogs

Communications

• Communication Basics (Workshop Handout)

Discussions

• Discussions and Wikis (Workshop Handout)

Echo360 Lecture Capture

• CSU Echo Help
• Working with Echo360 in RamCT

Email

• Communication Basics (Workshop Handout)

Grade Center

• Grade Center Basics (Workshop Handout)
• Create Weighted Columns & Drop Lowest Score
• Getting Started with the Grade Center (Blackboard.com)
• Add Student Course Section Information to Grade Center
• Hide Unenrolled Students in the Grade Center

Groups

• Getting Started with Groups (Blackboard.com)

Journals

Messages

• Communication Basics (Workshop Handout)

SafeAssign

• How To Use SafeAssign in RamCT Blackboard

Tests, Surveys and Pools

• Getting Started with Building a Test (Blackboard.com)
• Test Basics (Workshop Handout)
• Advanced Tests (Workshop Handout)

Wikis

• Discussions and Wikis (Workshop Handout)

Instructors who teach fully online courses can add a link to the online course survey for their class to their RamCT course.

• Learn more about RamCT and the student course survey.
• Instructions on how to add the student course survey to a RamCT Course.

• EZIP Grader - How to move CSU testing services exam scores to RamCT.
• Final Grades from RamCT Blackboard to ARIESweb - How to move final grades from RamCT into the ARIESweb final grade input form.
• iClicker – How To Upload iClicker Scores into the RamCT Grade Center
• SafeAssign for Instructors - How to identify possible plagiarism and teach students to cite source materials properly
• Final Grade Import - How To import final letter grades from the RamCT grade center to ARIESweb.