Category Archives: Build / Add Content

Copyright Refresher

General Information Work published on or before December 31, 1922 is in the public domain.1 Work published between January 1, 1923 and December 31, 1978 is protected for a term of 95 years from the date of publication.1 Work published between 1923 and December 31, 1963 may or may not be in the public domain.  You should check Stanford Determinator to determine renewal status.1 After 1978, copyright runs for 70 years from the date the author dies, whether the work...

Create a Banner for Your Blackboard Course Site

In this short video, we use the popular photo sharing site Flickr to find an image we have permission to use, then we edit that image in the free photo editing software PhotoScape and post it on a Blackboard course site. Though this video focuses on creating a banner for a Blackboard course site, the principles can be applied to finding and editing Creative Commons images....

Saving your Wimba archives / Uploading videos into a course

Saving your Wimba archives Wimba & associated archives will not be available come Term 1 of the 2013-2014 fiscal year. If there are any archives you wish to save, you will need to download & save the MP4 file to your computer. To start, go into the course where the archives are, then go to the “List of Rooms and Archives” page. This can vary depending on how you set up your course, but you should be able to find...

Copying from MS Word & Pasting into Blackboard

Applicable to both students and faculty . Although we highly encourage you to write in a word processor such as Microsoft Word and save a local copy of what you post in Blackboard, copying / pasting from Word into any Blackboard text field can cause problems. This issue may arise when pasting into announcements, items, test questions, discussion boards, blogs, journals, Grade Center feedback — anywhere you find a text editor box (with options like bold, italic, etc), this issue...

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