Did you know that you can embed PowerPoint presentations (and other media) into your Blackboard courses, allowing learners to view material without downloading it?
Here’s how you can do it!
For PowerPoint, you will first need to create a web version of your presentation. It’s really easy… just upload it to your Google Drive, open with Google Slides, and publish to the web.
To add your PowerPoint presentation to Google Drive:
Log in to your Google Drive. If you have never used Google Docs/Sheets/Slides/Drive, you can create a FREE account. To access the Google Drive, the url is https://drive.google.com
| Upload your PowerPoint presentation Click the +NEW button Select File Upload |
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Open the presentation with Google Slides Right-click on the presentation you uploaded (It will have a P icon as in the image to the right. Select Open with from the menu that appears, and Choose Google Slides from the next menu that opens. |
| In Google Slides, click File, and select Publish to the web which gives you the ability to publish the presentation to the web. |
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Click Embed tab and select settings options (timing to advance slides, and size. NOTE: Small fits best into the Blackboard frames)Select Start Publishing or Publish |
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Grab the embed code, by clicking the EMBED tab (select the code, and CTRL C to copy) |
Note: You can also do this with Slide Share (http://www.slideshare.com) Voice Thread (http://www.voicethread.com), and many other web-based tools!
To add to your Blackboard course:
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In your Blackboard course, access the content area where you want the presentation to be visible to students.Click the Insert/Edit Embedded Media button from the toolbar (it’s the 4th from the left on the bottom row of tool bar buttons). |
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In the Insert/Edit Embedded Media window, click the Source tab |
| and paste the embed code (CTRL V to paste)
Click back on the General tab and then click UPDATE |
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Remember… you will see a yellow block where your media will be until you click the SUBMIT button!
If you’ve created something on a website like Quizlet.com…
Using Quizlet.com, you can create flash cards and games to help your learners understand key terms and vocabulary. These can also be embedded into your Blackboard course shell
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Click the More button (…) for more options, including the Embed . |
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Select the mode (Flash Cards, Matching, etc.) from the dropdown menu, then click Copy HTML |
To add a PDF so that students can read it directly from the content area (without being required to download),
Add an Item in your content area.
Upload the item to your course content area. Access the item and copy the URL.
Click the Insert/Edit Embedded Media Button.
Change Type to Iframe
Paste the URL for the item into the File/URL
Click Insert