Adding a Learning Unit

This guide will walk you through the process of adding a Learning Unit into a content area of your Blackboard course. Blackboard Learning Units enable you to set a structured path for progressing through the content within a course. You will find that the development of self-paced learning is intuitive with Blackboard Learning Units. Your students can now access content, including Assessments, in a sequential order. You may either allow your students to access content nonlinearly within a Learning Unit or enforce a sequential path.

Learning Unit content is managed in the same way as other information that appears in content areas. Items and files may be added, arranged, and modified to create a sequential learning path.

Step 1: Click on the Control Panel link and choose the Content Area that you would like to add the Learning Unit in.

Step 2: Select the Learning Unit option from the drop down box. Then click on Go.

Step 3: Type in the name of your Learning Unit or you may choose a title from the drop down box. You may also give it a different color.

Step 4: You may add text to describe your Learning Unit. This will be shown directly underneath your Learning Unit. You may click Preview to look at your description of your Learning Unit.

>> Note: There is a difference between Smart Text, Plain Text, and HTML . Smart Text automatically recognizes a link entered in the text box. Smart text recognizes the ENTER key as a paragraph tag and accepts HTML tags as well. Smart Text will also prompt to load images if an image source text is used when adding smart text as part of a content item. Plain Text displays text as written. HTML displays text as coded using HTML tags. We would recommend that you leave it selected as Smart Text .

Step 5: Set the options you want to your learning unit.

>> Note: Enforcing sequential viewing means students will not be able to advance to a page without having viewed the previous page.

>> Note: Metadata is data about the added item, such as ownership, resource format, and copyright information. If this option is selected Describe will appear next to the item in the Content Area .

Step 6: Click on the Submit button to Add your item. You will receive a timestamp receipt. Click the button to close the window.