Introduction

Welcome to the Blackboard Content System! The Blackboard Content System is a feature-rich, fully integrated system for storing, sharing, and publishing content.

This manual is a reference for all end-users of the Blackboard Content System including students, teachers, librarians, and other members of an educational community.

The Blackboard Content System allows users to manage learning content, digital assets, and ePortfolios in an enterprise learning environment. It is fully integrated with the Blackboard Learning System and the Blackboard Portal System—making use of a similar interface as well as creating repositories for Blackboard Learning System courses and users.

The Blackboard Learning System is a robust course management system (CMS) that is licensed with several different options. The Blackboard Learning System includes not only the course management system and advanced integration and data management tools.

Adding the Blackboard Community System introduces a customizable portal designed to support several different groups of users with specialized content.

Blackboard Inc. develops, licenses, and supports enterprise software applications for the global education market. Working in concert with over 2,600 client-institutions and dozens of technology partners, Blackboard is committed to enabling client innovation and enriching the educational experience through information technology and offers the industry’s leading e-Education platform. Blackboard’s suite of enterprise applications includes the Blackboard Learning System ™, Blackboard Community Portal System ™, and Blackboard Transaction System ™.Through the use of Building Blocks SM technology, Blackboard’s suite of applications has been architect and designed to deliver a flexible, customizable, and seamlessly integrated operating environment for e-Education.

This manual is best read as a reference, rather than as a book read cover to cover. If the manual is viewed online, the embedded links enable the user to navigate quickly through topics. For readers that prefer to print out and read a paper copy of the manual, refer to the table of contents to locate topics that are referenced in the text.

To make this manual easier to use a number of conventions appear throughout. These conventions are detailed in the table below.