An observation is that many people are finding web based resources that describe innovative uses of Blackboard in teaching in Higher Education. A problem that we all encounter is sharing these peer reviewed resources amongst ourselves. Therefore, I w

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

A "scholar" stream is a saved search which is continually updated. Each time you access your Scholar account you will see the most recent resources that meet your saved search criteria - helping you get to the most relevant and valuable inf

    * In scholar click on ‘add a stream’    * click on ’start new search’    * complete the ‘advanced search’ form with the desired criteria and a name for the search.&n

"Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks on to help you organize and remember them. Tags are a little bit like keywords, but they're chosen by you, and they do not form a hierarchy. You can assign as many tags to

There are three different tag types within scholar.  You can tag by keyword(s) of your choice, and also by discipline (selected from a dropdown list) and course code (which is also selected built from your Blackboard by course list).This allows

    * find relevant, reliable resources more easily    * update your course automatically with dynamic content feeds    * enable student contributions to course collections    * share resour

Briefing Paper 2 on Scholar Tool and Blackboard    * 16th March, 2007     * Version 1.0IntroductionThe aim of this briefing paper is to introduce the Scholar tool that is available through Blackboard. The briefing paper