Blackboard – Embed social media content (SnapWidget)

It is possible to use SnapWidget, a free third party service, to create an embed code to add your instagram photos into your Blackboard course. SnapWidget and Instagram are a third party services that are not provided via the University. Users should read SnapWidget’s and Instagram’s terms and conditions.

• Go to SnapWidget and follow instructions to create your embed code.
• Navigate to your Blackboard course and identify where in your Blackboard course you would like to place the feed, and add the item, announcement etc.
• Click on the HTML button within the text box to open HTML mode.

• Paste the text you copied into the clipboard from SnapWidget into the Blackboard text box.
• Change the http text to https.
• Click on Update to close the HTML box, and then on Submit to finish.
• Your content now embedded within your Blackboard course

Thanks to the Instructional Support & Training team (also known as the iTeam) at the University of San Diego for the tip of using this method.

Examples