School of Education
DEPARTMENTSTeacher Education
Blackboard Portfolio Resources
Getting Started with your Teacher Education Portfolio
Blackboard Portfolio Setup
This document will walk you through the process of how to get started with your Teacher Education portfolio.
Reading Program
New! Reading Program Portfolio Setup
Master of Arts in Curriculum & Instructions
Tutorials and Guides
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Editing Text
Video: Adding Text to a Blackboard Portfolio Page
PDF: Maintaining Consistent Formatting While Editing Text
This video shows you how to avoid the incorrect formatting that results from copying and pasting text directly from a Word document or web site into your portfolio. A solution is to paste the text from Word into an intermediary program such as Notepad to remove the formatting and then to re-copy the text from Notepad and paste it into the portfolio editor.
[Note: If you are using a Mac you would use a program called TextEdit rather than notepad, which is found inside the Applications folder.]
Public Permissions
Video: Giving Public Permissions to Portfolio Documents
PDF: Giving Public Permissions to Content Collection Area Documents
The second video deals with a very important component of the portfolio - adding public permissions to all artifacts. Every file that is linked in your portfolio page should have the permissions set to "public". The following video will show you how to make sure that is the case for each embedded file. This is vital to make sure that our all of the systems related to the portfolio run smoothly.
Adding Images
Video: Uploading an image to the Blackboard Portfolio Home Page
PDF: Resizing and Uploading Images for the Web
How to upload your image to the Blackboard Portfolio Home Page without causing any untentional stretching or distortion of the image.
Document Scanning
PDF: Guidelines for Scanning Documents
This guide will show you how to create high quality scanned documents, while maintaining small file sizes.
Downloading your Blackboard Portfolio
PDF: Downloading your Blackboard Portfolio
This guide will show you how to download your portfolio to a local drive when it is complete.
