Blackboard Content
- Content Basics
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A Blackboard course is organized like a File Cabinet:
- The cabinet contains drawers. The drawer names are the titles from the menu
- Each drawer contains information that is conected to one of the titles from the menu
- Each drawer can contain folders and/or other content types
for example:
- Cabinet Structure (Menu)
- An individual drawer
- Sample Drawer Contents
- Containing folders
- Containing different types of content
- Content Types
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The Learning System contains content and tools for teaching and learning. Here is a brief description of the main components of a CNU Blackboard course:
- Content Items—contains information from the instructor. Generally, no action is required
- Discussion Board—contains messages and replies from other members of the course
- Folders—contains other items
- Assignments—contains assignment information, and a link for submitting the assignment
- External Links—contains a link to other web sites
- Internal Links—contains a link to other places in the course web site
- Tests—contains an online test. Note: not all tests are online, follow your instructor's guidelines
- Equation Editors
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The WebEQ and MathML Equation Editors provide a means of adding scientific and mathematical notation to content items, assignments, tests, quizzes and surveys.
- WebEQ Equation Editor is a Java-based graphical interface whereby scientific and mathematical symbols are selected via graphical buttons.
- MathML Equation Editor allows the input of MathML, a markup language designed to represent mathematical/scientific equations, which can be displayed on screen or read by a screen reader.
- Equations can be created and edited in either editor.
- Links to Tutorials