Word can be used to make HTML (web-page) documents for Blackboard. You can choose to save any Word document as HTML, and most special formatting such as bulleted lists or tables will be preserved.
- Open a Word document that you have already created and saved.
- From the File menu, choose Save as HTML.
- Mac Users: Give your file a name and a file extension: e.g. lecture1.html.
- PC users: Give your file a name: e.g. lecture1. Word will save the extension for you.
- Click SAVE.
- From the View menu, choose View HTML source.
- Select everything between, but not including, the <BODY> and </BODY> tags - the <BODY> tag will be near the top, and the </BODY> tag will be near the bottom. Copy the information to your clipboard choosing Copy from the Edit menu.
- In Blackboard's Control Panel, click on the area that you want to add the information to (like 'Course Documents'). Click on Add Item.
- Give your new item a name. Click in the text box, and then choose Paste from the Edit menu. The HTML tags that you copied from Word should now appear in the text box. Click on the HTML option underneath the text box.
- Click Submit at the bottom of the page.
NOTE: If your document contains any images (such as
photos or diagrams), Word will save these as separate images, called
'image1.gif', 'image2.gif', etc. After you click Submit, Blackboard
will ask you where these images are - they will be saved in the same
folder as where you saved the HTML document. Click Browse to locate
each image, then click Submit.
This document created by BBsupport at University of Otago.
