You’ll find your lecture notes, learning materials in Course Content view, the default page in your Blackboard course.
The majority of your learning content will be saved in folders or Learning modules, they will most likely be arranged by week.
Types of learning content
Folders and Learning modules will contain different types of content, represented by different icons:
Documents (web pages containing text, images and video)
Images
Downloadable files such as PDFs/PowerPoint slides
Weblinks that will link to web content outside Blackboard
In addition you will see assignments or tests
Another symbol you will see is this represents integrated non-Blackboard software e.g. Turnitin (assignments), Vevox (polls & quizzes) or Matlab (data)
Folders, documents and files
Click on a folder to expand the content, this folder contains lecture notes in a file (PDF) that can be downloaded and a document a web page that contains a recording of a lecture:
Click on a file, it will open in a layer above the course content area.
The following is a downloadable pdf, use the Ally button to generate an accessible version,
the download button to download the file
and to close the file
Clicking on a document will also open it in a new layer above the Course content. Documents may contain text, images and video, they may also contain some downloadable files as well.
Use the Ally button to generate an accessible version
and to close the file
Learning Modules
Learning modules are used as containers to organise collections of content (folders, documents, links, files, videos, etc) in sequence. The following are examples of Learning modules in Course Content, one has an image the other the icon , the one on the left has forced sequence enabled.
Clicking on the Week 2 workshop learning module reveal a list of documents with a chain of circles and lines. This means forced sequence is activated and you must complete each item in order in the list. The circle shows the status of each item, grey circle = current, padlock = locked, green tick = complete.
You need to click on the first (current item) in the list
The document will open and you’ll see that the link to the next item is greyed out, this means you need to complete reading the document to enable the link.
When I read to the bottom of the document the link will become activated and then I can progress to the next page.