Before inserting an image into your Blackboard course you should:1. Find/capture the image you wish to use.2. Ensure you have permission to use it (Copyright).3. Make sure the image(s) is in a usable Web format (ie gif or jpeg etc).4. Save the image

To upload your assignment (word doc, pdf etc.,) you need to enter the appropriate course, and find the point in the course where you need to submit (hopefully this is clearly sign posted in the course). Once you find the point, click on the "vie

Go to the discussion forum (either via the list of fora in Communication / Discussion board or via the content area which links to the forum).Click on the forum title to enter.To create a new thread click the Add New Thread button Enter your message

Powerpoint does not always automatically open when you click the link to the file in Blackboard. Simply save the file and then open it.

Blackboard discussion boards now allow you to subscribe to a thread and receive email notification of any updates or changes to it.Open the forumEnter the threadClick Subscribe 

Currently, there are many different ways to be enrolled on a Blackboard course, so the answer is not simple. You will need to work through the following decision tree to identify the likely problem and the person who can help.Please note that the lin

Discussion board: each Blackboard course contains a Discussion board area.It lists all the discussions or fora. It can be accessed from Communications / Discussion Board Forum: a forum is just an area that has been set up to house a set of discu

This problem is associated with the web browsers. The equation display from Blackboard uses Java, therefore due to potential security issues most browsers will ask if you want to run the Java, if you decline then the equations will display as red X&#

If a person wishes to see what they achieved on a quiz and also see what they selected then they can access the my grades area of the specific course - through the course tools area.  This will allow them to see a personalised gradebook view. Th

If there are courses on your Homepage that you do not wish to see you can hide them.Log in to BlackboardOn your Homepage (where it says Welcome!) look for the My Courses sectionClick the pencil icon (top right)Uncheck the boxes of the courses you no

Each page that you create in the wiki is listed within the wiki navigation. This is fine if there is a few pages, but not if there are 100's of pages then who are people suppose to navigate around?The problem is that it is a flat structure, so gr

Blackboard has the option to allow students to self-enrol onto courses, providing this has been set up by the course administrator or instructor. To enrol yourself onto a course that has been set up for student self-enrolment:Go to the Courses tabSea

As you maybe aware we have completed the academic roll over. This implications are that you maybe unable to access you previous years course(s). If this is the case, and you need access to material to prepare for your re-sits then please do the follo

As people are aware the discussion board has been upgraded in version 7.2. The outcome is that the strategy you need to adopt to read discussion board contributions in a thread has changed. If you want to bring all the contributions together on one p

FYI - we have heard reports that there has been an issue with data transfer from SITS to the Datahub which has meant that the students / units for the new academic year are still being updated. This may result in some of the data in your courses bein

Each wiki (team site) has an export site button at the bottom of the wiki navigation. So you simply need to access the wiki (team site) in the Blackboard course, and then click export site on the wiki navigation. This will then allow you to save to y

On some occassions you may want to include 3rd party podcasts in your course, such as programmes from the BBC. This is relatively easy to achieve by using a free third party piece of software called pageflakes (http://www.pageflakes.com). This softwa

To reply to a thread:Go to the forum (either via Communication /  Discussion Board / forum title or Content area / forum title)click the forum title to enter the forumClick the thread title to open the discussionTo reply to the thread (i.e. top

There are two ways in which you can bookmark a web resourse using scholar...1. You can bookmark a resourse from within scholar    * click 'add a bookmark'    * you will now need to enter some information into the

 * log into scholar and select 'settings' (top right hand corner)    * select 'install bookmarklet'    * In option two there should be a highlighted link called 'scholar it!'   

The scholar bookmarklet will allow you to to add web sites to your Scholar bookmarks directly from your browser, as you find them on the internet, rather than cut and pasting them into the scholar home page.Other faq's are available from the Blac

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You can import your bookmarks from either your browser or another social bookmarking site i.e. delicious.    * first you need to save your current bookmarks as .csv file, internet explorer, firefox and other bookmarking accounts such a

The scholar course page is a resource that allows you have a scholar home page for each of you courses, you can collate relevant bookmarks or ask your students to contribute to finding course relevant resources, only students registered on the releva

Some lecturers are releasing their material as a podcast from Blackboard. This means that you can use Juice (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php) or iTunes to subscribe and automatically receive the material (saving you a few clicks). The