{"id":3736,"date":"2014-09-09T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2014-09-09T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:54:04","slug":"bb-tip-102-content-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-102-content-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bb Tip #102: Content Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly designed Content Editor vastly improves your experience for adding text and other forms of digital content to your course.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_RrfRzWLw7M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Content Editor provides instructors and students with content processing tools that help users create text, tables, hyperlinks, embedded multimedia, and file attachments. The Content Editor can be accessed throughout Blackboard to create lesson content, announcements, discussion posts, assignments, test items, and more!<\/p>\n<p>The new Content Editor improves your ability to enter text, paste from Microsoft Word and add content to all areas of your courses and organizations. Gone are the prior formatting problems of cutting and pasting text from Word. The Content Editor retains the formatting of the pasted text.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-81-video-everywhere\/\">Video Everywhere<\/a> is a new feature in the Content Editor that allows instructors and students to record short YouTube videos on the fly using a webcam and seamlessly embed the video into course materials, interactions, and feedback.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more information?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Content Editor\" href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/en-us\/Learn\/9.1_SP_10_and_SP_11\/Instructor\/010_Blackboard_Learn_Environment\/002_Working_with_Text\/001_Using_the_Content_Editor\">Using the Content Editor<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Video Everywhere\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-81-video-everywhere\/\">Using Video Everywhere<\/a><br \/>\nExplore Blackboard\u2019s <a title=\"On Demand\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/\">On Demand Learning Center<\/a>.<br \/>\nTry these <a title=\"Bb How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackboard How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit the <a title=\"Bb FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackboard FAQs<\/a> for additional blackboard information<br \/>\nor <a title=\"Schedule 1-on-1\" href=\"http:\/\/jflorent.youcanbook.me\/\">schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, <a title=\"Send email\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a>, or <br \/>call Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly designed Content Editor vastly improves your experience for adding text and other forms of digital content to your course. The Content Editor provides instructors and students with content processing tools that help users create text, tables, hyperlinks, embedded multimedia, and file attachments. The Content Editor can be accessed throughout Blackboard to create lesson <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-102-content-editor\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bb Tip #102: Content Editor\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[81],"class_list":{"0":"post-3736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blackboard","7":"tag-content-editor","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-Yg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1686,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-72-whats-new-in-bb-learn-9-1-sp13\/","url_meta":{"origin":3736,"position":0},"title":"Bb Tip #72: What&#8217;s New in Bb Learn 9.1 SP13?","author":"Janice Florent","date":"July 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"During the break between summer and fall semesters Blackboard will be upgraded to version 9.1 service pack 13. 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