How to Upload Something to Black Baud

KB147: Uploading a PowerPoint File into Blackboard (Versions: PowerPoint 2002; Blackboard version 5.)


To make a PowerPoint presentation available to students on your Blackboard site,  information technology is recommended that it be uploaded as an HTML/Web file that can open within the Blackboard window. This method eliminates the need for students to download and open up a split up PowerPoint file to their local PC (which is often a lengthy download time on older, slower machines and volition also exist a problem for students who practise not have PowerPoint on their computer).

Please note that HTML presentations do non hold transitions or special effects.

Function one:
Salvage the PowerPoint presentation as an HTML/Web file
1. Open the PowerPoint file.

2. Choose "Relieve as Web Page".

three. Within the Save Equally Spider web Page" dialog box, select "Tools", then "Web Options".

4. On the "Full general" tab, click "Add Slide Navigation Controls". You lot can play with text and background colour here for the navigation bar outline view that volition appear in Blackboard or have the default of white text on blackness background

5. From the "Pictures" tab, select "800 x 600" as the target screen size.

6. Select the location where you will temporarily store the file in grooming for uploading (It is recommended that you save it to the aforementioned binder as the original PowerPoint presentation, so yous will have both formats, PPT and HTML, easily bachelor should you afterward demand them).

7. Click "Save".


Delight note:
When a Power Betoken file is saved as a spider web page, ii items are created:

1. An HTML alphabetize file is created which has the same name as the original presentation file.

2. A folder is created, containing associated files, with the aforementioned name as the presentation.

For example, if a Power Signal presentation entitled "Lecture 1.ppt" were saved as a Web Folio, an alphabetize file entitled 'Lecture 1.htm" would be created and a folder (containing associated files) would be created entitled "Lecture 1_files". These two items - the alphabetize page and the file binder - need to exist moved into a new folder in preparation for uploading into Black Board.

8. Go to the location where the files have been saved to. Create a new folder and drag and drop both the HTML index page of the presentation, and the binder with all the associated files for that presentation, into the new folder. Give the new binder an hands recognizable name - this is what you will exist first zipping (compressing), then uploading to your Blackboard site.

9. Nothing the folder using a plan called WinZip. If this is not installed on your on-campus computer, y'all can contact the Assistance Desk-bound  to arrange installation or install the demo version yourself from the  WinZip website.

Office 2:
Uploading the File into the Blackboard course
i. Log into your Blackboard class site.

two. Click on the "Command Panel" button

three. Click on the link to the content area where yous wish to place the material (eastward.thou., Assignments, Class Documents, Course Information, etc..)

four. Click on "Add Item".

5.In the Blackboard window (see screen-shot on right),  enter a proper name for the file that you are about to upload or keep the default name. Add text/instructions at your discretion.

half dozen. Click on the "Browse" button to upload, and locate the zipped file. The zipped file will have a .ZIP file extension (e.thousand. "Lect1.zip")

7. Click on the file to select information technology, so click on "Open".

viii. The file path volition announced in the "Browse" field in the Blackboard window. Enter a meaningful link name for the file.

9. Select, "Unpackage this file" in the Special Action field.

x. Click on "Submit".

11. Blackboard will prompt you to select an entrance point for the presentation. Select the index.htm file created during Office 1 of this process.

12. Click on "Submit".

Your presentation tin now be easily accessed and navigated through by your students.


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