Creating Content

Blackboard tools to help instructors create, import, and edit content for their courses.

Blackboard Tools for Creating, Adding, and Editing Content

• Create Content
  • Learn to add, edit, delete, organize, and manage different types of content such as learning modules, folders, documents, assignments, discussions, and more. Check out the new AI Design Assistant as well. In order to activate and use AI tools in Blackboard, instructors are required to register and complete a TTaDA Live Training Session on Blackboard Ultra's AI.
    • Create Course Materials such as videos, documents, web links, files, and more.
    • Add Content from External Sources through the Content Market for tools such as McGraw Hill, Cengage, and more.
    • Edit and Manage Content by reordering items, deleting unused files, and improving content accessibility.
       
• Reuse Content
  • Once content is created, it can be reused for future courses. Learn how to do this through exporting archived courses, importing course packages, and copying content from previous/other courses. Instructors can also check on the copying status by accessing Course Tasks and Logs. 
     
• Batch Edit
  • Update settings on all copied or imported content in one location for easy course setup and maintenance. Learn how to access, navigate, edit/change dates, edit visibility of content, and more with Batch Edit. 
     
• Release Conditions for Content
  • Set visibility and access to content for students with rules on who, when, and how they can access content in a course. Learn to set rules to open content for groups, on specific dates, based on student performance, forced sequencing of content, and more.
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• Content Collection
  • Store, share, and publish content outside of Blackboard courses. Learn how to manage and use this storage space as well as how to create and edit content in the Content Collection.
     
• Best Practices for Presenting Content
  • ​​​​​​​Review Blackboard's information for presenting content to students to make it more engaging.  Learn about accessibility, writing for the web, creating effective layouts, enhance the visual appeal, and reducing the size of a course for ease of navigation.
     
• Mobile-Friendly Courses
  • Get assistance with optimizing content to display as you intend in Blackboard Mobile App. Learn how to get started, create mobile-friendly content, supported files, and more.​​​​​​​