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Cook Book Guide to Blackboard

How to upload videos into Blackboard

/ Before You Start
Before you complete this step, you should have logged on to Blackboard, either from home or from college. Please refer to guides:-
·  How to Log on to Blackboard from Home
·  How to Log on to Blackboard from College
  1. Navigate to where you want to put the resource

Click on the Courses tab at the top of the page.

Click on the link to the course site where you want to add the video.

Navigate to the content area where you wish to place the video then click Edit view in the top, right corner of the screen.

  1. Add Item

Go back to your Blackboard course site. Click on Add Item in the menu bar

Enter a title for your video in the text box beneath Name

/ If you don’t know what type of file your video is, you can find out by right-clicking on the file, view properties and the file extension (the part of your file name after the dot) tells you the file type. E.g. MyVid.wmv . If you still have problems, contact the ILT Unit

In the text box editor, click on the relevant icon for your video file-type.

A new dialogue box should open up :-

Click Browse and navigate to your file.

Set the width and height attributes of your movie – usually, 400 pixels is a good size.

It is not good practise to have the movie auto start when the page loads so we recommend you leave the default Autostart settings to No.

Click on the arrow head next to Controls to select either full, mini or no controls (this displays the start, pause, fast-forward, etc controls).

Click Submit .

A new dialogue box will open showing your video file in the player as it will appear in Blackboard. Click Submit .

Now scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Submit again to save the item in to your content area.

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