The Portal Areas section of the System Control Panel manages all aspects of the portal. The portal consists of the tabs appearing in the header frame that link to the common areas and the modules, links, images, and tools that make up the content of those common areas.
This part of the Blackboard Academic Suite Administrator Manual includes the following chapters.
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This chapter details the tools for administering portal tabs, also called common areas. | |
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This chapter details the tools for administering modules. | |
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This chapter details the tools for administering channels of content for modules. | |
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This chapter details the features for administering the Tool Panel. | |
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This chapter details some of the settings for controlling the portal. |
The Blackboard Learning System and Blackboard Learning System – Basic Edition include basic common areas. The Blackboard Portal System includes basic common areas, advanced common areas, and tools for building common areas for specific sets of users.
Blackboard Learning System includes several common areas as part of the portal. The basic common areas included with Blackboard Learning System are:
· My Institution: This tab acts as a gateway to the portal and provides users with content from within and outside the Blackboard Learning System environment.
· Courses: An online area dedicated to learning. From this tab, users access the Web sites for their courses.
· Academic Web Resources: Links to the Blackboard Academic Web Resources Web site. By default this tab is disabled.
· System Admin: Only accessible by users with Administrator privileges.
The Blackboard Portal System also includes advanced common areas and the ability to create new common areas. The advanced common areas and common area templates are:
· Community: An online area dedicated to clubs, organizations, and other extracurricular activities.
· Services: Typically used to connect users to other institutional offerings.
· The Web: A tab that can be set to access a URL and display the content within the tab. By default this tab is disabled.
· Module common area: Administrators can create additional common areas that include modules similar to the My Institution common area.
· Tool common area: Administrators can create additional common areas that point to a tool within the Blackboard Learning System.
· Link common area: Administrators can create additional common areas that point to a URL.