Most computer users, whether novice or experienced, have become dependent on the ability to spellcheck their compositions. Within Blackboard Learn, users who are working in English or Spanish are able to use the default spell check dictionaries by clicking on the Spell Check icon within the textbox editor. This checks the written work against a set of words uploaded to the instance. In the latest version, Blackboard now uses the .dic file format used in such word processing programs as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice.
Within these applications, we can create a customized dictionary or we can use a textbox editor to open a .dic file. Either way, we should add words that might be heavily used within our own instance such as our organization's name or location. Once our customizations have been saved in our text file or saved and exported from our applications, we can begin adding the dictionary file into our Blackboard environment.
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