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Research Guides For Teaching & Learning

Blackboard Course Menu Link

Add link to a Research Guide in Blackboard course menu:

  1. Click plus sign to add content to menu area
  2. Select "Web Link"
  3. Add title, such as "Research Guide"
  4. Add url found on Research Guide page 

Embed Research Guide Content in Blackboard Course

To embed a portion to an entire guides in the Blackboard course environment, ask your liaison to generate a "widget" for a specific part of a guide, or an entire guide. Your liaison will send you a snippet of code that you can use to embed the content in your course.

To embed a portion of a guide on a content page:

  1. On content page, create an Item
  2. From text editor box, select HTML option 
  3. Paste widget code and save
  4. Embedded content will display once saved

To embed an entire guide [pictured]:

  1. In Blackboard, generate a Blank Page
  2. From text editor box, select HTML option 
  3. Paste widget code and save
  4. Embedded content will display once page is saved and published