Over the summer I designed and created a series of subject guides, giving students and staff an introduction to their electronic resources.
This was born out of frustration, as our version of Blackboard would not allow us the ‘tab’ feature that other University Libraries provide to give students access to Library content. Therefore I had to create a Blackboard course, before adding content and enrolling all staff/students at the University on it.
The guides were written in HTML/CSS, but have some Flash and Javascript to get the videos running. I was worried about hosting files within Blackboard that went beyond HTML as I thought the system might reject embedded scripts. However as you can see, there has been no problem at all and students have been very impressed with the support we have given them for their course.
My next job is to create a library full of videos, including induction videos for new students that are too hungover to attend our original sessions.
Tags: blackboard, e-learning, vle