Blackboard Support Resources

• 2020 Training PPT
• Getting Started with BlackBoard
• BlackBoard Training Resources (Beginner)
• BlackBoard Training Resources (Advanced)
• App Showroom
• App Examples
• BlackBoard Help Website

Blackboard Accessibility Training Resources

• How to format accessible documents
• Captioning video content
• Write accessible content
• Accessibility Training Resources

Accessibility training video with Ben, Ashley, and Ron

Blackboard Apps for your Websites

Using the Document Viewer to embed PDFs on your website (video tutorial)

Image Resources

How to take good photos using your iPhone

• View presentation
  
  

Finding good images

• Webmaster Resources folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1s3ROMqp55GXFfeX8ppan12bRRS7cpvk5
• Google images: https://images.google.com/
• Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/
• Burst: https://burst.shopify.com/
• Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/
• Photos for Class: https://www.photosforclass.com/

Resize your images for the Homepage BB image editor

• Main Banner: 1192x518
• Featured Story: 330x205

(click "Select New Image" and find your photo, then click "Download Cropped Image") 

VIDEO TUTORIALS 

• Using Canva.com to create banner and latest news graphics

Image Editing with Blackboard's Creative Services Image Editor

• https://templatelibrary.schoolwires.net/imageeditor?w=1192&h=518

Resize Images using MS Publisher

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Resize your images using Be Funky

• Visit website
• How to resize images using Be funky

Snapseed image editing tools for iPhone & Android

• Download the app for iPhone
• Download the app for Android
  
  

Web Accessibility Resources

• View Accessibility information for all mediums
• MS word Accessibility information - in-depth review
• How to add alt tags to MS word documents- cheat sheet
  
  

Spelling & Grammar Resources

Grammarly inline spellchecker

• Chrome: Open Google Chrome and visit the Chrome Store to install the Grammarly browser extension. Click Add to Chrome to start the download.
• Firefox: Open Firefox and visit the Firefox Add-ons page to install the Grammarly browser extension. Click Add to Firefox to start the download. Open Safari, visit the Safari Extensions page and click Install now to install the Grammarly browser extension.
  
  

How to write for the web

• Writing for the web
• Writing accessible content 
  
  

HCS Website Best Practices

• Always have 3 featured stories.
• Always use an image with your feature story.
• Always have 3 top main rotation banner images.
• Always have a page title and content on pages (we can help you write this).
• Don’t use font tags use H1, H2, H3.
• Always use pdf, no word docs, and ppt (people don’t always have access to MS products) If you need to show a ppt place it on the google drive and link to it.
• Use the directory app.
• Never use dates in links
• Add Meta descriptions to all pages.
• Create pages and media with Accessibility in mind.
• Use Grammarly inline spellchecker.