Adding Content To Your Blackboard Course
Adding content to a course is usually one of the first activities for which instructors use Blackboard.
A variety of content can be added, often in Microsoft Office formats, and organised into folders. Staff profiles give students information about the staff instructors. Links can be made between areas of the Blackboard course, and a glossary may be added including common terms and definitions.
Once content has been added sophisticated rules may be used to make content items available to students once they have fulfilled certain criteria.
Use the guides listed below to find out how to add content to your course.
How to Add Content to your Blackboard Course
Use this guide to find out what's involved in adding content to your Blackboard course.
How to Add a Folder to your Blackboard Course
Keep your course organised by using folders to store your content.
How to Add a Picture within your Blackboard Course
A picture is worth a thousand words - find out how to add one to your Blackboard course by reading this guide.
How to Add an Announcement to your Blackboard Course
Announcements can be used to pass on news and reminders about your Course.
How to Add a Staff Profile to your Blackboard Course
Let your students know who you are and add a staff profile to your Blackboard course.
Embedding a YouTube video within a Blackboard Content Item
It is possible to embed a YouTube video within a content item that you add to your Blackboard course. Note that this method may stop working if YouTube changes the way their videos work. YouTube is a third party web site and iSolutions cannot be held responsible for the content held on it. Users should read the YouTube terms and conditions.
How to add a sign up list to your Blackboard course
This set of guides explains how to use sign up lists within your Blackboard course.
You may wish to place a link in one content area to another within your course. Use this guide to find out how.
How to Use the Glossary Manager
The Glossary Manager can be used to create a list of terms and definitions for your course.
The Syllabus Builder allows you to create a simple course syllabus using a Blackboard template.
How to add a link to your "Reading Lists Online" reading list in Blackboard
If your course reading list has been entered into Sentient Discover you can place a link in your Blackboard course menu to take students directly to the reading list.
How to add content from EdShare to your Blackboard course
You may wish to add a link to a piece of content held within EdShare so that it is accessible from your Blackboard course. These instructions show how to take the link and put it into a piece of content within your course.
How to add a SCORM Learning Object to your Blackboard course.
This guide explains how to add SCORM based learning objects to your Blackboard course.
How to use Blogs within your Blackboard course
Weblogs, known as Blogs can be used within your Blackboard course. Full step by step instructions are available.
How to use Wikis within your Blackboard course
Wikis allow for collaboarative creation of content by any member of your Blackboard course. Full step by step instructions are available.
How to use Podcasts within your Blackboard course
You may add podcasts to your Blackboard course. You may also allow students to subscribe to your podcasts using aggregator software such as I-Tunes. This set of guides explains how.
Using the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Text Editor in Blackboard
You will find this Text Editor on most Blackboard screens, this guide explains how it works.
The quick edit function allows you to quickly edit materials from the student point of view on your course without needing to go back through the Control Panel.
How to set the language in which your Blackboard course appears, and how to enforce the selection.
It is possible to set your Blackboard course to appear in a number of available languages. You can enforce this selection so that students cannot change it back to a language of their choosing.
It is possible to set content items to have a "Mark Reviewed" button beside them. This allows students to click on the button which then turns to "Reviewed". You can check which students have marked materials as reviewed, and this feature can be used to form part of an adaptive release rule.
Adaptive Release allows you to control what content is viewable by a student based on certain rules. Criteria that can be used to form such rules are: username, group membership, gradebook score, and review status.
How to Copy / Move Items Within and Among Your Blackboard Course/s
You may wish to copy or move material within your blackboard course, or to another course. This guide explains how to do this.
How to use Search within Blackboard
These pages explain how you can use search technology with Blackboard.
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