Transcript Introduction to Blackboard - Lawrence Technological University

Adding HTML to Blackboard
http://www3.ltu.edu/~s_schneider/howto.htm
Adding HTML to Blackboard
 What is HTML?
 What are “tags”?
 Why add tags?
 What kind of tags?
– Center/ Bold/italics
– Bullet lists
– External links
 How to add tags?
What is HTML?
 HTML = the “code” for the Internet
 Browsers read this “code” and display things on
your screen in certain ways (bold, centered, put
and image up, etc.)
 Blackboard responds to HTML code (since it is
essentially a “web page” that we are seeing)
 Thus, we can add HTML to our Blackboard sites
to “spiff them up” a little
What are “Tags”?
 HTML has “tags” to enclose some text .. The
tags are interpreted by the browser
 Format is <tag> write something </tag>
–
Start and stop the tags (add the / to the end tag)
 Simple examples :
– <B> Bold </B>
– <I>Italics</I>
– <B><I>Bold and Italics both</I></B>
“nested tags”
Why use “tags”?
 To bold/center/italics/larger fonts
 To create bulleted lists (or numbered lists)
 To add a web link inside a paragraph
– Could also add to “links” page …
What kind of tags?
 Paragraph codes
<P align=“center”>Centered line</P>
<P align=“right”>Right aligned</P>
 “Headers” – easy way to get big titles
<H1>BIG TITLE</H1>
<H2 align=“center”>Not as big, and
centered</H2>
.. More tags?
 Bulleted list would be coded like this :
<UL><LI>First line</LI>
<LI>Second line</LI></UL>
And would look like this :
•
•
First line
Second line
 Ordered list would be coded like this :
<OL><LI>First line</LI>
<LI>Second line</LI></OL>
And would look like this :
1. First line
2. Second line
.. Still More tags?
 External links :
<A HREF="http://www.ltu.edu/">LTU Web Page</A>
Notice the text “LTU Web Page” is what will be
displayed as the link .. It would look like this :
LTU Web Page
How to add them to Blackboard?
 Use external “editor” (word or notepad)
 Have “template” of the tags (until you are
used the format)
 Add your text to the sample tag
 Copy and paste from word processor to
Blackboard
 Check the “display” in the browser
Word “Tag” Template