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Courseware tools at UT

University-wide, UT provides the courseware development tool Blackboard to build and serve Web course components. Learn more about how this tool works and what support services the university provides.

Why use a courseware tool?
Courseware tools are specialized software programs set up to work with Web servers to enable faculty or assistants to create an educationally oriented Web site without prior knowledge of HTML or how to prepare files and put them on a server.

Privacy in online courses
Learn who has access to your course, and how students can protect their personal information.

Blackboard at UT Austin
Blackboard is the course management software integrated with UT Direct that allows you to quickly publish a syllabus, create links to Web resources, and add other course components. Chat capabilities and online discussions are already built into the course site.

CLIPs—Class Information Pages
The Registrar's Office provides this electronic service, integrated with UT Direct, to get class rosters and photo rosters, upload class materials, use eGradebook, submit final grades, and more.

UT's eGradebook
Created specifically for UT Austin, eGradebook allows instructors and their designated proxies to view and maintain graded class assignments online. Students may also view their own graded class assignments. Integrated with UT Direct.

Course development resources
Selected resources with an educational and pedagogical focus to help you build online features into your courses, plus practical guides, reference tools, and utilities.