Blackboard – Types of content you can add to your course Staff Guide: An overview of the types of content you can add to pages in your Blackboard course.
Blackboard – Copy course content (rollover) Staff Guide: Courses created for the new academic year will contain no content. Use the course copy (rollover) tool to re-use course materials from another course.
Blackboard – Using course announcements and email to communicate with students Staff Guide: Adding course announcements and how the announcement settings affect when and where course users view the content of the announcement.
Blackboard – Adding Items and Content Folders to your Course Staff Guide: How to add and edit course content and other materials such as handouts and presentations.
Blackboard – Adding a file, image or video to your course Staff Guide: How to add files, including videos and images, to your Blackboard course. Different methods and how these are stored in the course files area.
Blackboard – Adding a Course Link Staff Guide: The Course Links tool is useful for adding links to other areas of the Blackboard course. This type of link is relative to each Blackboard course and does not need updating when course content is rolled over.
Blackboard – Creating Discussion Boards Staff Guide: What are Blackboard Discussion Boards? How they are structured and how to set them up for your course.
Blackboard – Using Discussion Boards How to use a Blackboard Discussion Forum. Finding the Discussion Boards page, creating a new thread, and replying to a message.
Blackboard – Creating Blogs Staff Guide: What are Blackboard Blogs? How they are structured and how to set them up.
Blackboard – Using Blogs How to use Blackboard Blogs. Create blog entries. View blog drafts. Comment on a blog entry.
Blackboard – Creating Journals Staff Guide: What are Blackboard Journals? The different types and how to set them up.
Blackboard – Creating Wikis What are Blackboard Wikis? How to create course and group wikis in your Blackboard course.
Blackboard – Update Staff Information Staff Guide: How to update the Staff Information area of your Blackboard course.
Blackboard – Adding an Web Link (external) to your course Staff Guide: Add a single web link as a content item to your Blackboard course. You can add some contextual information and decide whether or not the link should open in a new browser window.
Blackboard – Adding a SCORM Learning Object to your course Staff Guide: SCORM (Sharable Content Objective Reference Model) is a standard for learning objects .
Blackboard – Mathematical notation How to use the Maths editor and tips on how to add mathematical notation in Blackboard.
Blackboard – Creating Learning Modules Staff Guide: Learning Modules allow you to put a number of pieces of content into a linear order.
Blackboard – Using the Syllabus Builder Staff Guide: The Blackboard Syllabus Builder can be used to provide a useful template to outline learning objectives, materials required, and details of lessons.
Blackboard – Creating a Module Page Staff Guide: A Module Page does not hold traditional content, instead you can add modules to the page which dynamically pull pertinent information from your Blackboard course and present it to users.
Blackboard – Add a Blank Page Staff Guide: Blackboard allows you to add a “page” to your course. Student users must click on the link to view the page. “Pages” are different from “items” in that the text of items is shown within the parent folder while the text of a page is shown only once the page is opened.
Blackboard – Create a Blackboard Lesson Plan Staff Guide: This Blackboard tool allows you to create online lesson plans complete with accompanying content resources.
Blackboard – Add Riipen Staff Guide: Instructions on how to link Riipen to your courses (only available to School of Management on request).
Blackboard – Add Pearson Seamless Staff Guide: If you have an arrangement with Pearson to use their products using their Seamless integration into Blackboard you will first need to enable this feature in your course.
Blackboard – Add Matlab Staff Guide: If you have an arrangement with Matlab to use Matlab Grader within Blackboard you will first need to enable this feature in your course.
Blackboard – Changing your Course Banner Staff Guide: If you do not have a course Banner, Blackboard will automatically add a thumbnail image to the course tile on the Courses page. You do not need to customise your course banner. If you wish to do so, please see this guide and ensure you choose an image with the appropriate licensing agreement.
Blackboard – Copy or move material It is possible to Copy or Move material within your Blackboard course or between your Blackboard courses. 1. Check that...
Blackboard – Bulk uploading course files Staff Guide: Using Course Files you may add a batch of files to your Blackboard course at once.
Blackboard – Change the appearance of a Folder Staff Guide: You can control whether only icons are shown, only the text, or for both icons and text to be shown.
Blackboard – Embed Facebook content Staff Guide: Embed content from Facebook into your Blackboard course.
Blackboard – Embed social media content (SnapWidget) Staff Guide: Use third party service SnapWidget to create embed codes of social media content, which you can add to your Blackboard course.
Blackboard – Embed Twitter content Staff Guide: How to embed a Twitter feed, into a content item or announcement into your Blackboard course.
Blackboard – Add Pearson to your course for academic year 23-24 Staff Guide: How to enable the Pearson tool on your Blackboard course, and add links in the course content.