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Blackboard makes it easy to create a website for your school.
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BLACKBOARD AS YOUR SCHOOL
WEBSITE
Peggy Lawson
Instructional Technology Consultant
South East Cornerstone
South East Saskatchewan
Teachers’ Convention
November 9-10, 2009
WHY USE BLACKBOARD? No school web presence yet?
ParentsCommunityProspective teachers
Why Blackboard?Easy to learnEasy to update and have multiple people
responsible for content
SOME SPECIAL FEATURES Can have all or only some portions open
to the public with other areas only accessible to enrolled users
Groups can be created to further limit access to some areas according to criteria you set
SECSD School web sites are given custom URLshttp://www.cornerstonesd.ca/manor for
example
A FEW KEY QUESTIONS Home Entry page – what shall it be?
School Information page?Announcements?
Content AreasThe main part of your site. Subdivide into
foldersHow will you structure?
Web LinksLink to Teacher Logic? Weather?
GETTING STARTED In order to edit your site you must
Log into BlackboardBe enrolled as an Organization Leader or
Assistant
Turn Editing mode On
ADDING SECTIONS TO YOUR SITE Most commonly you’ll create:
Content AreasExternal Links
To external websitesDividers
For appearance only
ADDING NAVIGATION MENU ITEMS Create Content Area
Give your button a nameMake available to users
ADDING NAVIGATION MENU ITEMS
Drag and
drop to
reorder
menu items
UseContextualMenu toMake changes
Empty content areas will not be visible to visitors
CREATING CONTENT From the navigation menu, go to the
area where you want to add content Be sure editing mode is turned ON
Common Options:
• Create Item• Build > Create Folder• Build > External Link
CREATING ITEMS Follow prompts to create items The default option is often your best
choice The Help system is actually very helpful!
CREATING ITEMS
UPLOADING FILES
There is always a Submit button!
EXTERNAL LINKS Links to external web sites
Must type in the entire URL, including http://Open in a new Window, or not?
ANNOUNCEMENTS Go to your Announcements page Be sure editing mode is turned on Click Create Announcement and complete the
wizard Announcements appear in the order that they
are posted, with the most recent appearing first.
Note: Pictures are not easily added to announcements at the moment Will be easy once we enable our content system Can be accomplished by coding html
Attachments cannot be added until content system is enabled – coming soon!
CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS Enrollment Options Guest & Parent Access
Allow Guests (default = yes) Properties
Change Organization name Style Tool Availablility
CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS - STYLE Where you’ll make most of the changes
to your site’s look & FeelNavigation menu – text or buttons?Organization Entry PointUpload a banner (appears on Entry page)
CREATING A BANNER Dimensions
depends on screen resolution of computer visiting your school site
600 x 100 pixels as a suggested size – trial & error
Create in Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop Elements, or other graphics program
Create in PowerPoint
CREATING A BANNER USING POWERPOINT Start a new PowerPoint Go to Design Ribbon and select Page
SetupSelect Banner.
Leave Width set at defaults
CREATING A BANNER USING POWERPOINT Change background colour from Design
ribbon Add text boxes and graphics from the
Insert ribbon
CREATING A BANNER USING POWERPOINT Use SAVE AS . . . Other Format.
Save as a jpg
Prompted to Save Every Slide or Current Slide Only – select Current Slide Only
ENROLLING USERS Organizations are typically “open” –
visitors do not need a Blackboard account to visit your site
You may make sections “closed” to visitors & visible only to enrolled users
Enroll users from the Control Panel > Users and Groups > Users
Click the green Enroll User button to add users who already must have Bb accounts
SOME RANDOM NOTES IMPORTANT! Consider the document
type!• Not everyone has the newest version of Office!
• “Print” documents as PDFs select PrimoPDF as the printer
Content items can be easily moved within your site
BRAINSTORMING SESSION What will you want to include on your
school website? How will you organize your site? Who will be responsible for, or allowed
to, post content?
BRAINSTORMING NOTES
EXAMPLES33 Central Macoun School
Alameda Manor **
Assiniboia Park Oxbow Prairie Heights **
Carievale School Pleasantdale
Carlyle Elementary School Queen Elizabeth
Carnduff Education Complex Radville Regional High School
Gladmar Regional School Rocanville
Haig School Stoughton
Hillcrest School ** Wawota Parkland
MacLeod Elementary Westview School **