Teaching Tools

Adding content to Blackboard

Blackboard Quick Tips FSE eLearning

Below you will find instructions on adding four different types of content to Blackboard.  (Content Folders, Files, Items and Web links).

Types of content

Below are some common types of ‘content’ that you can add to Blackboard.

  • Content Folders (virtual folders used to organise and store documents).
  • Files (Upload a single file, name the file link, users click on the file name to open the file).   
  • Items (Upload multiple files, which will appear in a list under the item name.  Users click on a file name to open the file.)
  • Web link (Create a web link, which users can click to access online content).

Adding content

  • Check that Edit Mode is set to ON.  If Edit Mode is off click to toggle from OFF to ON.
Image shows the Blackboard menu item Edit Mode, which is set to on.

Open the area within Blackboard that you’d like to add the content to. For example, Course Content, Assessment and Feedback.

Image shows a Blackboard menu list, which includes the menu options course content and assessment and feedback.

Hover over the Build Content tool menu to reveal menu options.

Image shows the Build Content menu in Blackboard, with relevant sub menu items.

Next, select the type of content that you wish to create:

  • Content Folder
  • Item
  • File
  • Web link

The options that you will see next will depend on the type of content you have chosen to one of the links below: