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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
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Preface

Adding an image to your course


There are several ways to add an image to your course. You can create a new Blank Page and add the image to that. Essentially, you are giving the image its own page. If you do this, a link to the page will appear in the Content Area to which you added the page. You can keep the name of the link and its description short. This enables you to add an image to a Content Area without taking up much room on the Content Area page.

Also, you can add an image directly to a Content Area. If you do this, the image will appear on the Content Area. It will take up more room than a link to another page, but your students won't need to click on a link to see the image.

We have already covered how to add a Blank Page, earlier in this chapter. In the following procedure, we will cover how to add an image directly to a Content Area.

Adding an image to a Content Area

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

  2. 2. From the Build Content menu...