Teaching Tools

Quick Tips: creating and curating content for your Blackboard course unit

Blackboard Quick Tips FSE eLearning

Use these quick tip videos to help curate content and create new content for your Blackboard course unit.

How to use Item Statistics in Blackboard

Using Item Statistics in your Blackboard space is a good way to analyse your current content to check whether your students are using it as you expect.

How to record a Powerpoint presentation and export it as a video

This video shows you how to record a Powerpoint presentation with a voiceover, and export it as an mp4 video, ready to upload to your Blackboard space. This is a particularly quick and effective way to provide engaging content to supplement your teaching materials.

How to import an MP4 video in Blackboard

It is important not to upload videos directly into Blackboard but use the video portal to embed them in the course space, as shown in this video.