Blackboard Support Resources

• 2020 Training PPT
• Getting Started with BlackBoard
• BlackBoard Training Resources (Beginner)
• BlackBoard Training Resources (Advanced)
• BlackBoard Help Website
• Nittanyville: Blackboard's Demo Website

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Blackboard Accessibility Training Resources

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

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

Blackboard Accessiblity Training Video

Homepage and Website Graphics

Resize your images for the Homepage BB image editor

• Homepage Main Banner: 1192x518
• Latest News: 330x205

Image Editing with Blackboard's Creative Services Image Editor

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

Using Canva to Create Latest News and Homepage Banner Graphics

Blackboard's Virtual Training on Homepage layout and graphics (Feb 2022)

Image Resources

How to take good photos using your iPhone

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Finding good images

• Webmaster Homepage Banner and Latest News Graphics: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MZYmgOKhO4C0J3iw00gmNeYNIhj49mwt?usp=share_link
• 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/

Website Page Elements

Headers, banners, images, and layouts: We use header text in order to make layout look more natural, organized, and accessible.

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.