Category Archives: Build / Add Content

Adding SCORM quizzes to Camtasia lectures

Did you know you can add quizzes to your Camtasia Studio recordings? When using the SCORM format for uploading your presentation to Blackboard, students’ results will even be added to the Grade Center automatically. You can choose to also receive the results via email in case you want to collect results outside of a Blackboard course. To get started, open an existing Camtasia Studio project (.camproj) or create a new project by opening a Camtasia Recording file (.trec). Opening the...

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Build / Add Content, Content Area, Create Assessment, For Faculty Updated: May 21, 2017

Optimize video for online delivery using Handbrake

If you’ve used your phone, tablet, or digital camera to record video for your students to watch, you may find the resulting files large and take forever to upload. This means they’ll also take a long time for your students to download. Fortunately, you can pretty easily optimize your video using the free software HandBrake. First, you’ll need to download and install HandBrake. Go to https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php to get the latest version that’s appropriate for your computer. We’ll be using the...

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Build / Add Content, For Faculty Updated: February 2, 2017

Embedding Facebook videos

Facebook has been lauded as a new mainstream media outlet. If you find a Facebook video you’d like to share with your class, you can embed it into your Blackboard course site so your students don’t have to visit Facebook to view it. A. Getting the embed code from Facebook 1. Click the down arrow menu in the upper right of the Facebook post and choose “</> Embed.” Note: If Embed is not an option, click on the “video” or...

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Build / Add Content, Content Area, For Faculty Updated: January 4, 2017

Create and Edit Tests

Assessment helps faculty members evaluate student understanding of course material.  Tests in particular can provide a way of measuring student performance, and enhance the overall effectiveness of your course.  The Assessment section of your Blackboard course site in the Content area allows you to create three different types of student assessment: Test, Surveys, and Assignments. This tutorial will focus on the basics of test creation.  While tests are held in a Test Manager portion of your course site, individual tests...

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Build / Add Content, Create Assessment, Tests Surveys & Pools , , , , , , Updated: September 12, 2016

Install Audacity on a Mac

Audacity is free, open source software that makes it simple to record and edit audio on your computer. Installing Audacity on a MAC isn’t difficult, there’s an extra step that’s often overlooked if you want to save your recordings as MP3s, rather than much relatively large WAV files. To download Audacity, go to the Audacity downloads page (http://www.audacityteam.org/download/) and choose the appropriate version. In this walkthrough, we’ll be looking at downloading and installing Audacity on your MAC.   There are...

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Build / Add Content, Computer Tips , Updated: March 30, 2016
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