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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

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Page 1: Blackboard As Your School Website

BLACKBOARD AS YOUR SCHOOL

WEBSITE

Peggy Lawson

Instructional Technology Consultant

South East Cornerstone

South East Saskatchewan

Teachers’ Convention

November 9-10, 2009

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WHY USE BLACKBOARD? No school web presence yet?

ParentsCommunityProspective teachers

Why Blackboard?Easy to learnEasy to update and have multiple people

responsible for content

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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

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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?

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GETTING STARTED In order to edit your site you must

Log into BlackboardBe enrolled as an Organization Leader or

Assistant

Turn Editing mode On

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ADDING SECTIONS TO YOUR SITE Most commonly you’ll create:

Content AreasExternal Links

To external websitesDividers

For appearance only

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ADDING NAVIGATION MENU ITEMS Create Content Area

Give your button a nameMake available to users

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ADDING NAVIGATION MENU ITEMS

Drag and

drop to

reorder

menu items

UseContextualMenu toMake changes

Empty content areas will not be visible to visitors

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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

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CREATING ITEMS Follow prompts to create items The default option is often your best

choice The Help system is actually very helpful!

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CREATING ITEMS

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UPLOADING FILES

There is always a Submit button!

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EXTERNAL LINKS Links to external web sites

Must type in the entire URL, including http://Open in a new Window, or not?

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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!

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CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS Enrollment Options Guest & Parent Access

Allow Guests (default = yes) Properties

Change Organization name Style Tool Availablility

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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)

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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

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CREATING A BANNER USING POWERPOINT Start a new PowerPoint Go to Design Ribbon and select Page

SetupSelect Banner.

Leave Width set at defaults

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CREATING A BANNER USING POWERPOINT Change background colour from Design

ribbon Add text boxes and graphics from the

Insert ribbon

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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BRAINSTORMING NOTES

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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 **