Ingredients:
- Computer with an Internet connection
- Google Drive
- Google Document
- Blackboard course shell
Directions:
- Upload your file to Google Drive if it is not already there(need help? Click Here).
- Go to the file location in your Google Drive and double-click on the file to open it.
- Open another tab and go to The NI Embedder.
- Select your file type (Google Document) from the left.
- Select the radio button to the left of Google Document or PDF.
- Go back to the tab with your file and click File at the top.
- Select Publish to the web.
- Be sure that Link is selected.
- Click Publish. Then OK.
- Copy the highlighted Link.
- You may now close out of the tab with the Google Document.
- Now paste the copied Link in the Paste link to file: box.
- Click Submit.
- In the box the embed code should appear: (below is an example of a proper looking code)
- <div style="cursor: pointer; color: blue; text-decoration: underline; margin-bottom: 10px;" onclick="fF=document.getElementById('vid_0.24701791214008972');if(fF.style.display=='none'){fF.style.display='block';this.innerHTML='Hide video player';return false;}this.innerHTML='Show video player';fF.style.display='none';">Show video player</div><div id="vid_0.24701791214008972" style="display: none;"><iframe src='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6sc_qAbvERK_EsFlgknLl9RKwXUdGaTWite7Q2jUOI/edit' width='640' height='390'>Loading...</iframe></div>
- Click Copy code to Clipboard.
Embedding the Item into Blackboard
- Open another new tab in your browser and browse to the Blackboard course shell into which you would like to embed the Google Document.
- In the content area where you would like to embed the file, hover your mouse over the Build Content button.
- Under Create, choose Item.
- Give the item a name
- Click the HTML button in the third (bottom) toolbar above the content text box. [Don’t see three toolbars? Click here]
- In the box that pops up, paste the embed code you copied.
- Click the Update button.
- Set any remaining options on the item (e.g., track number of views, dates/times for display, etc.)
- Click Submit.
All done!
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