Adding Staff Information to Blackboard
The Staff Information area of a Blackboard course can be useful to let your students know who you are, what you look like, and how you may be contacted.
Access the Control Panel
1. Access your course's Control Panel.
Access Staff Information
2. Click on Staff Information, it is located in the Course Tools area of the Control Panel.
Add Profile
3. There are two buttons. You can add a folder or a profile. Folders can be used to group items together, like directories on your hard drive.
4. Click on Add Profile to add a staff profile.
Enter Profile Information
5. In the first section a number of fields are listed into which you may type the relevant information. The first four fields are compulsory. When entering your email address remember to add @soton.ac.uk to the end of it e.g. abc123@soton.ac.uk.
Options
6. The second section begins by asking if you want to make the Profile visible? Stating Yes means that Students will be able to see the profile. If you state No, then the profile will not be visible to students. This can be useful if you want to add lots of staff, but make them visible week by week (for example guest lecturers).
7.Next you can upload a photograph. Click on Browse to open an Open File box. Locate the picture file you wish to add and click on Open.
8. The next box Personal Link allows you to put the web address of a home page if you have one. Remember to type the full address with http:// at the beginning, e.g. http://www.iss.soton.ac.uk/.
Submit
8. Click on Submit when you have finished.
9. A receipt screen will appear, click on OK.
Profile Created
10. The profile has now been created. The Modify button allows you to go back and edit the profile that you have made. The Remove button will remove the profile.
Note: when the image was added , it took a copy from the local machine and placed the copy on the Blackboard server. If you delete, move or change the original picture on your local computer it will not affect the copy on the Blackboard server. This applies for any file you upload into Blackboard.
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