INTRODUCTION TO BLACKBOARD SCHOOL SITES

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1 INTRODUCTION TO BLACKBOARD SCHOOL SITES Working URL - Click your school from the Our Schools dropdown menu Layout of the site MY START BAR CHANNEL BAR HEADER GLOBAL ICONS Logging In Use your (fname.lname@d11.org) and password

2 SITE MANAGER Under User Options, Click Site Manager Click Homepage from Current Pages to open the page The page has regions A,B,C,D,E There is a graphic on the page that shows you how those regions layout. It s not 100% accurate. This one is better.

3 Your slideshow: Each school site already has a 930x500 slideshow in the A Region. To add photos to your slideshow, click the APP Click UPLOAD PHOTOS. You can browse for photos to select or drag and drop photos onto this page. Once your photos are uploaded click EDIT The Photo Title and Caption (which is optional) will display below the photo. Try and keep these captions are short as possible because it may end up covering too much of your photo. You can also link your photo to a URL if you like. OTHER SLIDESHOWS You can add a photo gallery app to other pages within your site if you like. There are 2 types of slideshows. Simple and Advanced. The one on the homepage is Advanced. Click OPTIONS in the app and you can change the Gallery Type. DO NOT CHANGE THE ONE ON YOUR HOMEPAGE. LEAVE IT AT ADVANCED.

4 To create an app click Manage Apps and Layouts in the Actions Menu Now you can add new apps and delete apps Click Add App You get a choice of Apps to add. We are going to create an Announcements App Click Create New Give it a name like Announcements > Click Create It will always go in A but you can move by clicking and dragging it **Note: your app is invisible until there is come content in it *** Click I m done to leave the design mode. Now you can no longer drag and drop your apps around or delete. You can now add content to the App. Click the App to open it. The title of the App doesn t show on the site unless you want it to. This works for all apps. Click Options. Check Show the app name on my page. This is like showing the Chrome in SharePoint.

5 SAVE Click NEW ANNOUNCEMENT The TITLE is the only required field. Required fields are marked by a red corner.

6 Add some text to the Announcement. Click Display Duration. You can set a time for the Announcement to start showing on the site and when for it to stop showing. On the Viewers tab you limit who sees this announcement by assigning users or groups. By default the whole world will see your announcement.

7 To activate/deactivate the Announcement on your site check the box. It is checked by default, meaning it will show. Click SAVE. You can click VIEW WEBSITE at the top of the page to view your changes on your site at any time. It opens in a separate window. You can close that window and be back in the Site Manager. Breadcrumb your way back to homepage. Click Manage Apps & Layouts and Add App again This time we will add a HEADLINES & FEATURES App. Create New > Give it a Name > SCHOOL NEWS Click I m Done and then click to open the app

8 Click New Headline HACK: If you want your headline to go to a webpage and not to the details of the headline, you can put HTML code in the TITLE BOX. Example: <a href= Visit the District Homepage. You can add attachments, designate an Author, limit views, and/or add Tags (advanced) Click Save Go back to the Homepage using the Breadcrumbs. Click Manage Apps & Layout Add a Site Shortcuts App call it Quick Links Click I m Done Create a new link

9 Under the Parent Link section you can nest your links under a + menu. You can check Auto Expand if you want it to show all the links by default. Otherwise users will click the + to expand the links. Under the Imagery tab you can make your link an image instead of text (it won t do both). Under the Viewers tab you can limit viewers just like you can in all Apps. Also the Activate on my page is there as it is in all Apps. Go back to the Homepage using the Breadcrumbs. Manage Apps & Layout Add App > Upcoming Events Click I m Done Open the App Give it a name (required)

10 You can select to Show the app name on my page. This will put UPCOMING EVENTS on the top of the App. on your page. If you have more than one calendar you can select which calendar to connect to this app. Choose how many days into the future to show and the max number of events to display at once. The rest will be shown when clicking View Calendar.

11 You can Share this app with others. This will allow them to put your calendar on their site. Don t worry about that right now. Adding Events to your Calendar Back on the Site Manger screen, under Homepage, is Calendar. Click Calendar to open the Calendar page. Click the Calendar App to update the Calendar. Click NEW EVENT

12 On the EVENT tab you will give the event a title (required), a description, and a category.

13 On the Recurrence tab you can make it a recurring event.

14 On the Registration tab you can allow people to register for the event and limit on how many people can register. You can also ask them about Special Accomodates, Dietary Needs or create a custom questions in preparation of the event.

15 On the Location tab you can set a location and have it automatically add a map. You can designate a contact person for the event and include a URL, , and phone number.

16 You can submit a request to have your item posted to other calendars, for example, you want your school event to show on the District Calendar as well. You can limit viewers as you can in other Aps. And lastly, you can add attachments.

17 UPDATING YOUR TEMPLATE: This feature is only available until August 1 st. After that you will need to call Pat Crosbie to alter your template. Next to your school name click SETTINGS Under the Advanced tab, click CHANGE On the left side is where you can add more GLOBAL ICONS. There is a max of 5 and there are 3 District level icons so you can add 2 more. Under SCHOOL INFORMATION you can change your school s tag line. You can t change the logo because SharePoint stores them all in a District level template library. If you want your logo changed, it to Pat Crosbie. Under HEADER OPTIONS AND CHANNEL BAR OPTIONS you can change your colors. Under SLIDESHOW OPTIONS you can change your slideshow from smaller to larger if you want your homepage slideshow to take the entire width with nothing to the right of it. USE CAUTION IF YOU DO THIS. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE PLEASE.