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• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4


• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C

• Advanced Course Building
• Manage Course Menu
• Organization Guidelines
• Groups


• Active Learning Design Guidelines
• Using PowerPoint in Blackboard
• Impatica


• Compressing & Uploading Files
• Multimedia Guidelines


• Adding Multimedia Content
• The Text Edit Box
• Using Course Cartridges

Chapter 6

Adding Multimedia Content

Multimedia files are added to a Blackboard course site as attachments. The files can either be displayed in the page or set up as linked files. Multimedia files can also be added to certain areas using the text edit box.

To Add a Multimedia File as an Attachment:

• From the Content Areas of the Control Panel, choose where to place the material (for example, Course Documents).
• Click "Add Item.".
• Give the item a name in the appropriate text box.
• Scroll down to the second section of the Add Item page and click the "Browse" button to locate your multimedia file.
• Select the file and click the "Open" button.
• Select the appropriate "Special Action" from the pull-down menu.
• Click the "Submit" button.
• Click "OK" to acknowledge the receipt of your changes.
• Click "OK" to return to the Control Panel.

There are three choices in the "Special Action" pull-down menu.

• "Unpackage this file" is used to un-package compressed files, which was discussed earlier in this chapter.
• "Create a link to this file" uploads the file to the Blackboard server, as we saw in Chapter 3 when we added a course syllabus. Students simply click on the link to open the item. This is the suggested action for a media file type not supported by Blackboard, or for long lists of multimedia items in the same area of a course.
• The "Display media file within the page" option displays directly on the webpage. For example, if you attach a .jpg photo in Course Documents and choose the second option in the pull-down menu, students will see the photo as soon as they click on the Course Documents button.