There are two options for posting text into a Blackboard course.
The first is smart text which will understand carriage returns and
paragraph breaks, but not formatting such as bold and italics.
If you want bold, italics and different fonts you have to mark the
entire text up in HTML and one of the easiest ways to do this is to
save a word file as HTML. But then word doesn't write good HTML,
for instance, replacing a line break with a paragraph break, which
gives the HTML document a totally different look from the original
word doc.
If we use Blackboard we will probably import documents like our
degree program handbooks, which are typically word documents,
around 70-80 pages long and containing lots of tables. What's the
solution to getting these into Blackboard easily, while retaining the
original format?
One suggestion I have heard is to save them in word as HTML then
take the files into Dreamweaver and use their clean HTML option.
Another is to have a production line facility whereby one person
does all the markup/conversion.
Neither of these options is feasible in our case. Does anyone have
any other ideas or experiences whereby they tackled this problem?
Thanks
Pauline
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Pauline McCormack
Learning Technology Co-ordinator
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
www.ncl.ac.uk/ltan
191 222 5183
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