Online Learning icon Editing your homepage

Use the following guide to create your homepage in Blackboard®.

Click on the Course Tools button. Tools

Click on the Homepage link.

Digital Drop Box

1. Homepage InformationEdit homepage screen: Homepage information and Upload a picture

Homepage Information allows you to add text under two headings – Intro Message and Personal Info.

The Introduction is for a welcome message or a greeting to other learners. Personal Information is stuff about you that you are happy to share with others.

Simply type text into both of the boxes and continue to scroll down to Section 2.

2. Upload Image

To add a picture to your homepage obtain a suitable photograph of yourself. The photo needs to be saved as a gif or a jpeg file. You will have to either scan a real photograph or take a photograph with a digital camera. You will need to save your photo file somewhere you can easily access it.

Keep the size of the photograph in the ratio 3:4 (width:height) so a photograph 90 pixels wide by 120 pixels high is a good size.

Click on the Browse button located next to the New Image: text box to find the picture file you have saved.

Browse window
Click on the Open button when you have selected the file containing your photo. The file name should then appear in the New Image: text box. Scroll down to Section 3.

3. Favourite Websites

This section provides you with the opportunity to share your favourite websites with other learners. You may have websites of your own that you would like to point others to. There are three fields to be completed under this section.

Website Name : simply means a short title that explains the website, i.e. My Modern History site.

Website URL: enter the address (eg http://education.qld.gov.au/happyss/index.html)

Description: provide a bit of detail about the site so that others can find out the main thrust or features of the site.

When you have completed each of the three sections above, all you need to do is submit your information to be published. Simply click on the Submit button.

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