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Attaching files

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Attaching files

Between the last movie and this one I deleted Unit 1 from the course menu. I'm going to stick with the default content menu item. I also created within that content menu item some sub folders for structure. Now, I'd love to pretend that we're all going to log into Blackboard and create brand new content, but the reality is we're not going to do that. We're going to take files that already exist on our computer, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Adobe Acrobat files, and upload them from our computer to our Blackboard course. Remember that when you're doing that, you're actually copying the file from your computer. You're not giving your students access to your hard drive, you're just making a copy of the file on Blackboard. What that means, though, is if on your hard drive you make a change to the file, you actually need to re-upload that file to Blackboard. There are three ways for you to add files to your Blackboard course. The first is to attach a file into the Content…

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