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  1. *Introduction
  2. *Tools You Need
  3. *Methods to Put Online
  4. *Make Webpage Method
  5. *Save Slides as Images
  6. *Template of Webpage
  7. *Title Slide
  8. *Bullet-List Slide
  9. *Multiple Column Slide
  10. *Embedded Video Slide
  11. *Table Slide
  12. *Image Slide
  13. *Drawing Shapes Slide
  14. *Notes Slide
  15. *Chart Slide
  16. *Non-Outline Text Slide
  17. *Sound Slide
  18. *Animation Slide
  19. * Publish to Blackboard
  20. *Publish to WebCT
  21. *Resources

Publishing PowerPoint to Blackboard

Blackboard is a commonly used course management system that makes it easy to publish your course to the Web. In this section, we will walk through the steps involved in publishing your accessible presentation to an existing Blackboard course. This section presumes that you know a little bit about Blackboard and that you can navigate the "control panel" mode of Blackboard.

Organizing Your Presentations: Folders

Our first task in publishing our accessible presentation is to create a new folder (also known as a directory) within the Blackboard course; into this folder, we will place the presentation materials. Follow the following steps to create a new folder within a Blackboard course:

  1. Log into your course as the course manager (instructor)
  2. Select the "Control Panel" option in the navigation list (bottom left side of the screen)
  3. Depending upon where you would like to place the lecture material, select this from the control panel options. For this example, we will place the lectures into the "Course Documents" section. This section is listed under the "Content Areas" section of the control panel. Thus, select the "Course Documents" link.
  4. Select the "Add Folder" link/button
  5. When prompted, provide the new folder's name and any other text you want associated with the folder. For this example, we'll create a new folder called "Accessible HTML Lectures"

Description of Image 62: Showing Add Folder Option in BlackBoard



Description of Image 63: Showing How to Select Your New Folder in Blackboard



Description of Image 64: Showing how to create the Folder for Lecture 1 in BlackBoard


We recommend creating a folder for all your presentations (called "Lectures" or "Presentations". In doing this, you will create a common folder into which you can place all of your presentations. We also recommend that you create a new folder for each presentation. We recommend that you create a folder called "Lecture 1" for the first presentation, "Lecture 2" for the second, etc. It would be best to place all of these folders into one main "presentations" folder (as described in the preceding paragraph).

For this sample exercise, we create a "Accessible HTML Lectures" folder and then create a "Lecture 1" folder inside of the "Accessible HTML Lectures" folder.

(see Image 62) shows the screen within Blackboard for creating the new folder for the "Accessible HTML Lectures."

(see Image 63) shows the completed, new folder in which we'll place all the other lectures.

(see Image 64)shows us creating the new "Lecture 1" folder within the "Accessible HTML Lectures" folder.

Uploading Your Presentation Material

Once you've created your folders, you can then proceed to adding the lecture material into the Blackboard course.

The next step in publishing your presentation is to upload all of the HTML, sound, and video files that you created. Each of these files is needed to create the whole, complete accessible presentation, so you must upload each of these from your computer onto the Blackboard course (which most definitely resides on a different computer).

Follow the following steps to upload the presentation files onto the Blackboard course:

  1. Log into your course as the course manager (instructor).
  2. Select the "Control Panel" option in the navigation list (bottom left side of the screen).
  3. Browse to the location in which you created your "Lecture 1" folder. In our case, this is within the "Course Documents" section. Then select "Accessible HTML Lectures" and then select "Lecture 1." You should now be in the "Lecture 1" folder of your Blackboard course.
  4. Select "Add Item" at the top of the screen. This allows you to add a new item that will be displayed within the "Lecture 1" folder.
  5. This next page allows you to specify the title and text of the information that you're going to add. Since we're adding the first lecture, describe this lecture and then select "Browse" (as shown below) to upload the HTML presentation file for this presentation.
  6. When prompted, browse your local computer's hard drive to locate the file that you would like to upload to the Blackboard course. For now, select the main HTML document of the presentation (see Image 65).


    Description of Image 65: Showing how to select the main HTML Document in Blackboard

  7. Now select "Submit" at the bottom of the page. Blackboard will upload the HTML presentation, noticing that there are several image files that are associated with the presentation. In this case, the images for the slides are missing, and Blackboard is nice enough to point this out to us and provide a prompt for us to select and upload these image files too.  As prompted, browse your local computer and select a file for each of the missing image links; be careful that you select the correct image file for each link (see Image 66).


    Description of Image 66: Showing the Prompt for Images Associated with a HTML File

At this point, you have successfully loaded the accessible HTML presentation and the associated image links to the BlackBoard course. If you did not have any other content associated with the presentation, you're finished, but in this case, we also have the audio and video clips that are a part of the presentation. Thus we will also need to upload this content to the BlackBoard course too. The following steps describe how to add content to a BlackBoard HTML presentation.

  1. Select "Modify" that is to the right of the "Lecture 1" content link. This will allow you to edit/modify the existing presentation link that was just created in the previous set of instructions.
  2. Once in the "Modify" screen, you want to add the media files to the presentation. To accomplish this, select "Browse" in the "Content Attachments" section of the page. Then browse you local computer and select the file that you want to upload to the BlackBoard course. In this case, we want to upload the video clip, which is called "HCI.AVI". Browse to this file and select "OK". Then select "Submit" at the bottom of the "Modify content" page.
  3. The file will be uploaded and added to the content module. Depending upon the side of the file that you're uploading, it could take a few minutes to upload the file to the BlackBoard course.
  4. Once the File is added, you should see confirmation. If you browse to page that shows the content module, you should see that a link to the new file has been added.
  5. Repeat this process for any other file that needs to be uploaded that is associated with your presentation. In this example, we still need to upload the audio clip, "closing_remarks.wav".

Description of Image 67: Prompt for Adding Multimedia Files in Blackboard



Description of Image 68: Final Presentation displayed in Blackboard


Once you've completed this process, you should see the three files associated with the presentation: the main HTML file, the AVI (video) file, and the WAV (audio) file (see Image 67).

Congratulations! You've successfully completed uploading and publishing your accessible HTML presentation to BlackBoard. If you select the link to the HTML presentation, you will see your presentation viewed within the BlackBoard course (see Image 68).

The next page will present information on publishing a PowerPoint presentation to the course management system, WebCT.

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