1. 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)

2. Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services  About us  What is Blackboard?  How we use it?  Demonstration  Resources  Questions & Answers

3. Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services About us

4. Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services What is Blackboard?

5. 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 )

6. Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services How we use it? 1.First contact your on-campus Blackboard administrator to set you up 2.Create the course [ACCESSING HIGHER GROUNDS (DSS-901- F2009] 3.Login/Password 4.Very Important: Set restrictions | Select Control Panel | Select Manage Course Menu | Recommended user modify not remove.

7. Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services How we use it? 6.Select Enroll User 7.Select List/Modify Users 8.Select Course Document | Select Edit View (located top right corner) 9.Select Add Item or Folder (these can be combined) 10. Set Adaptive Release restrictions ASAP. 11. Adaptive Release | Scroll to Membership | Select Browse | Pop up window will open

8. Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services How we use it? 12. Use Search options to find student(s) | Select Submit (top right corner) | Window will close 13. Returns you back to Adaptive Release options screen | Scroll to the bottom of the screen | Select Submit 14. A message will appears “The Rule was updated successfully” | Click OK 15. When you return back to Course Documents | Edit View “Enabled: Adaptive Release “ will now appear below the file name 16. Use Advanced Release option to remove all Adaptive Release messages

9. 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..

10. Office of Campus Life - Disability Support Services Questions & Answers