My Teaching Library Toolkit
Getting Your Teaching Library Page into Blackboard
There are three options:
Direct Link
Upload HTML File
Copy HTML into Blackboard
Direct Link
Link directly to your Teaching Library Page from your Blackboard Course Site.
1. Click on the "External Link" button.
2. Type in the name, URL, and description of your page.
3. Blackboard creates a link to the page (stored on the Library's server).
Upload HTML File to Blackboard
Save the page as an HTML file and upload it to Blackboard.
1. Click the "View HTML" button on your My Teaching Library page.
2. When the HTML code pops up:
Click ctrl + a to select all.
Click ctrl + c to copy.
3. Open a text editor (notepad, wordpad) and click ctrl + v to paste.
4. From the text editor, save the file to your computer or removable media.
5. Go to the Course area and select "Create a link to this file."
6. Blackboard will automatically upload the file.
Note: Blackboard will detect images in the file and prompt you to upload those as well. To save those images before uploading them to Blackboard, right click on the image and save to your computer.
Copy Code into Blackboard
Copy and paste the HTML code into a Blackboard text box.
Save the page as an HTML file and upload it to Blackboard.
1. Click the "View HTML" button on your My Teaching Library page.
2. When the HTML code pops up:
3. Highlight all of the HTML tags between but not including the <BODY> and </BODY> tags. Blackboard dynamically generates the HTML above and below the BODY tags, so this portion of the HTML source must not be copied. Click ctrl + c.
4. From Blackboard choose the "Add Item" button.
5. Choose the HTML text-formatting option.
6. When the "HTML View" box pops us, click ctrl + c to paste your HTML code and click "submit."
7. Click the "submit" button on the main form to finish.
Note: If there are <IMG> tags in the HTML, Blackboard will automatically detect them when the page is submitted.
