Dear faculty,
Your students are curious about you as a person. You can share some of your interests and history in Blackboard. Along with your contact information and professional experience, tell them a little about yourself. You can use the Contacts tool – by default there's a link to the Contacts in your course menu. It's called Faculty Info in older Blackboard shells and Contact Faculty in the Summer 2013 Blackboard shell. It's easy to add a picture, too – just make sure it's 150 x 150 pixels.
The contacts tool in Blackboard has a very limited format and the text boxes are very basic unlike the text editor in the rest of Blackboard. If you want more flexibility, instead of using the Contacts tool, add a content area to the course menu and call it Faculty Info or Meet Your Instructor or whatever is appropriate for you. In the folder, create an item and add all your information, images, etc. You can even add a little video about yourself. Here's one I did in 2007.
Resources:
· Create a Course Contact in Blackboard
· Getting Started with Blackboard (if you aren't sure how to add items to the course menu)
Here's a tidbit to make you more efficient in Blackboard: Course to Course Navigation
New in Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 8 is Course to Course Navigation. Note that our Blackboard uses the house icon rather than the course name. You can quickly navigate to different courses - the action link takes you to the same area of the new course that you are currently in. If you are in the Grade Center, for instance, when you use the Course to Course Navigation, you will go to the Grade Center of the course you select from the action link. Pretty neat.
Warm Regards,
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