Basics: The Text Box Editor

Throughout Blackboard, the Text Box Editor allows users to add content. 

Icons defined:

Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout

Paragraph - dropdown menu allows selection of headings

Arial - dropdown menu allows selection of fonts

14px- dropdown menu allows selection of font sizes

Bullet point choices

Numbering choices

Font color choices

Background (highlight) color choices

Remove formatting (clears color choices)

Cut

Copy

Paste

Find & replace

Undo

Redo

Alignment options

Increase/decrease indent

Superscript and subscript 

Hyperlink/unlink

Show more/less tools

Left to right, Right to left

Horizontal line

Non-breaking space

Spellcheck (English and Spanish)

Insert Math equation (MathType)

Show invisible characters

Block quote

Special characters

Emoticons

Anchor

Tables

Source code (opens window to display source code)

Accessibility checker - verifies ADA compliance 

Insert/Edit code sample

The plus sign opens a menu for adding media content:

This is how YouTube and My Media (Kaltura videos) are added.

NEVER ADD MEDIA FILES DIRECTLY TO BLACKBOARD.

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