Adding Headers & Footers in Blackboard
-A tutorial for UH College of Education faculty and staff-
Blackboard Vista 8—
The grade center is a new and easy-to-use smart grading tool built to save
teachers time, provide ultimate flexibility and offer powerful analysis. This tool
provides students and appropriate stakeholders with insight into the student’s
academic progress. By dramatically simplifying the grading process, the grade
center is a powerful instructional tool. http://www.uh.edu/blackboard
Requirements— Active Blackboard course, Internet connection, Internet Explorer or Mozilla
Firefox browser
What do you want to do?
I am the Instructor of Record for a University of Houston course. I have already requested my
course to be on Blackboard Vista. I would like to…
1. Add a header and
2. Add a footer to my course homepage.
Adding a Header
1.1
Within the “Build” tab
(toward the right side of the
page), click on
“Page Options” and
“Edit Header.”
1.2 A
A “Create or Edit Header”
window will appear.
If you would like to add a
plain header, type your text
in the textbox.
Example text:
CUIN 3121: Educational
Technology for Adolescents
Instructor: Velvette
Laurence
Click the “Save” button.
NOTE: If you plan to reuse the blackboard course shell next
semester, I would suggest to not include the current
semester. Keep the header as general as possible.
Created by, Velvette Laurence 2010
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Adding Headers & Footers in Blackboard
-A tutorial for UH College of Education faculty and staff-
1.2 B
If you would like to bold,
add color, or change the
text size of the header, click
on the “Enable HTML
Creator” button (located at
the top right of the text
box).
Text editing tools will now
become available. Use the
tools to change the format
of the text.
When ready, click on the
“Save” button.
NOTE: If you plan to reuse the blackboard course shell next
semester, I would suggest to not include the current
semester. Keep the header as general as possible.
1.3
Congratulations! You have
successfully added a header
to your Blackboard course.
If you would like to edit the
header, repeat steps 1.1 to
1.2.
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Adding Headers & Footers in Blackboard
-A tutorial for UH College of Education faculty and staff-
Adding a Footer
2.1
Within the “Build” tab (toward
the right side of the page), click
on
“Page Options” and
“Edit Footer.”
2.2 A
A “Create or Edit Footer”
window will appear.
If you would like to add a plain
footer, type your text in the
textbox.
Click the “Save” button.
Example text:
For Blackboard technical
assistance please visit the
Student Help section at
http://www.uh.edu/blackboard
NOTE: If you plan to reuse the blackboard course shell next
semester, I would suggest to not include the current
semester. Keep the header as general as possible.
Created by, Velvette Laurence 2010
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-A tutorial for UH College of Education faculty and staff-
2.2 B
If you would like to bold, add
color, or change the text size of
the header, click on the “Enable
HTML Creator” button (located
at the top right of the text box).
Text editing tools will now
become available. Use the tools
to change the format of the
text.
When ready, click on the “Save”
button.
NOTE: If you plan to reuse the blackboard course shell next
semester, I would suggest to not include the current
semester. Keep the header as general as possible.
Created by, Velvette Laurence 2010
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-A tutorial for UH College of Education faculty and staff-
2.3
Congratulations! You have
successfully added a footer to
your Blackboard course. If you
would like to edit the footer,
repeat steps 2.1 to 2.2.
If you have any questions regarding the content of this tutorial please contact
Blackboard (http://www.uh.edu/blackboard) or the CITE Lab Help desk (713-7439833 / http://www.coe.uh.edu/cite).
Created by, Velvette Laurence 2010
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