{"id":4510,"date":"2020-08-18T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernc.on.ca\/lit\/?page_id=4510"},"modified":"2020-08-18T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T18:35:02","slug":"customizing-looks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/customizing-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing the Look of Your Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2><strong>Video Tutorial<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4510-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Customizing-the-Look-of-your-Course.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Customizing-the-Look-of-your-Course.mp4\">\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Customizing-the-Look-of-your-Course.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Instructions<\/h3>\n<p>Blackboard allows for further customization of your course by allowing you to change the \u201cCourse Theme\u201d or the color of the course and change the links on the left hand side. As well as the entry point into the course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. Changing the course theme with the palette<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The quickest way to change the theme if you don\u2019t need to preview the colors, is to click the color palette at the top right. Then scroll through and choose the theme you are looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you changed your Theme to Night, it would automatically change the color scheme. Using this method, doesn\u2019t allow you to view the color first, so you already need to know what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>B.Changing the course theme through the Course Management Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another way to change the color theme as well as the look of the links on the left and your entry point, is to navigate down on the left under \u201c<strong>Course Management Menu\/Customization\/Teaching Style<\/strong>.\u201d In here, you can change the course theme. Scroll down a bit to find the themes under \u201c<strong>Select Course Theme<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you do it this way, you are able to preview each of the colors so you can choose the one that is best for your course. Some will just change the colors and links while others may add graphics to the background.<\/p>\n<p><strong>B. Changing links on the left hand side<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other thing we can do in Course Management is to change the links. By default, they are text links.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. If you would like to change the style to a button base, click on the radio button next to Buttons. The links now change showing you a preview of what the buttons can look like as an image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. You can click on the plus sign next to the \u201c<strong>Button Library<\/strong>\u201d to see more choices. Here you are allowed to search and choose a new color for your buttons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. When you click <strong>Submit <\/strong>on the bottom right, this new style you choose, will be reflected in your course. Say you picked Orange for the button color. It would look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: if you wish to return to the original design, click on \u201c<strong>Teaching Styles<\/strong>\u201d under \u201c<strong>Course Management<\/strong>\u201d. Then scroll down and choose \u201c<strong>Default<\/strong>\u201d. Then <strong>submit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>C. Changing what landing page you\u2019d like your students to see<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you click your home button at the top left, the default navigates back to the <strong>Announcement<\/strong> page. For this example, let\u2019s change <strong>Announcement to Instructor Contact<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Instructor Contact link is hidden in this case. You can see this by the line in the box beside the link. Click on the arrow next to the link and choose \u201cShow Link\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then return to \u201c<strong>Course Management\/Customization\/Teaching Style<\/strong>\u201d where we just were. It is defaulted to <strong>Announcements<\/strong>, as seen below. Click the drop down arrow beside it and choose Instructor Contact. Then click <strong>Submit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now when you click on the home button at the top left, you navigate to the Instructor Contact:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And those are just a few ways that you can customize your Blackboard course.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"\/leid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Customizing-the-look-of-your-course.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instructions &#8211; Customizing the Look of Your Course (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncollege.ca\/leid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}