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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

By : William Rice
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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

By: William Rice

Overview of this book

Blackboard is the world's most popular commercial learning management system. With Blackboard you can construct and deliver professional quality elearning courses with ease. Its many features, which allow you to manage courses, grading and assessments, and social collaboration, are the standard against which other learning management systems are measured. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers shows you how to use Blackboard's most essential features by guiding you through the development of a demonstration course, built on Blackboard's free site for teachers, coursesites.com. You will also learn more about Blackboard's most important features, such as the gradebook, using clear instructions to guide you every step of the way. By following an example course, this book will guide you, step-by-step, through creating your own Blackboard course. Start by adding static material for students to view, such as pages, links, and media. Then, add interaction to your courses, with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. Most importantly, engage your students in your course by communicating with them, assessing them, and putting them into groups. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers will enable you to take your elearning course from inception, to construction, to delivery.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Blackboard Essentials for Teachers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding a web link to your course


You can add two types of links to a course. As with other Learning Management Systems, you can add links to websites. Blackboard also offers a fast and easy way to add links to other material in your course. This makes it easy to reuse content from your course.

Adding a link to an external website

Use the following procedure to link to a website or resource outside of your Blackboard course:

  1. 1. From the Course Menu, select the Content Area to which you will add the file.

  2. 2. From the Build Content menu, select Create | URL.

  3. 3. The Create URL page is displayed.

  4. 4. The Name: field that you enter will be displayed on the page to which you are adding this link.

  5. 5. The URL is the link itself. It will not be displayed.

  6. 6. The Description field that you enter in text editor will also be displayed on the page. Notice that this is a full-featured text editor. You can add anything to the description that you put on a web page.

  7. 7. You can add an Attachment field; it will get...