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=Blackboard – Advanced=

Advanced Instructor Skills Text Box Editor Changing the Background Color HTML in Blackboard Other Customization Features ClassTop

Also see Blackboard Basics, Blackboard E-Portfolios, How To... Blackboard

ADVANCED INSTRUCTOR FEATURES
//NOTE: Also see Blackboard Basics - What one person considers a basic skill, another may think is advanced....)//

Safe Assign http://wiki.safeassign.com/display/SAFE/home

Quick Tutorials Go to the Quick Tutorials page at http://www.blackboard.com/viewlets/ and click links to a variety of videos including Adaptive Release, Assignments, Gradebook, or Assessment

**TEXT** **BOX** **EDITOR**
WYSIWYG Text Box Editor (Delaware Tech) http://www.dtcc.edu/edtech/blackboard/pages/faculty/wysiwyg.html Describes the features of the text editor in Blackboard

Text Box Editor http://library.blackboard.com/docs/r6/6_3/en_US/student/bbas_r6_3_user/text_box_editors.htm This also has a list of keyboard shortcuts.

**CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOR**
//NOTE: See the// Web Tools //list for links to Web Colors//

HTML Code for e-Portfolio: Changing Background Colors / Making An Image a Background / Patterned Backgrounds [MS WORD] http://tech.shu.edu/eportfolio/resources/HTML%20Code%20Tutorial.doc (The contact people are Danielle Mirliss and Heidi Trotta, but they don’t give their affiliation…)

Personalising your e-portfolio background (Canterbury Christ Church University) [PDF} http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/support/learning-teaching-enhancement-unit/blackboard/blackboard-support/communication/personalising-e-portfolio-background.pdf

QUICK TIPS SHEET: Using HTML to customize your Blackboard course [PDF] http://www.icto.vu.nl/bbsupport/docenten/docs/HTMLForBlackboard.pdf (They don’t give themselves credit….)

**HTML IN BLACKBOARD**
//NOTE: See the// HTML //list for links to a lot of information about HTML//

Basic HTML for Enhancing Blackboard Documents [NC Conference of English Instructors] [|http://www.nccei.org/blackboard/basichtml.html]

Teaching with Blackboard – HTML Tags (Northern Illinois University) http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/resources/htmltags.shtml

Materials for HTML in Blackboard http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/rwhittaker/lol/RW_Notes_basic_html.htm

**OTHER CUSTOMIZATION FEATURES**
Universal Design (in Blackboard) http://blackboardsupport.calpoly.edu/content/about/accessible.html

Using Stylesheets and Banners (in Blackboard) http://www.deakin.edu.au/itl/dso/guides/tg-stylesheets-banners.html

**CLASSTOP**
ClassTop http://classtop.com/index.htm “ClassTop is a simple to use software application that makes it easy for instructors to update course materials and announcements in the school LMS [Learning Management System, such as Blackboard]. …With ClassTop, instructors have the flexibility to work offline and then synchronize their work later when connected to the Internet. Files or nested folders can be moved into ClassTop through a simple drag-and-drop function. These files are then synchronized into the correct areas of the LMS.”

ClassTop Instructor Support http://classtop.com/instructorsupport.htm