Students can create a personal profile page for each course in Blackboard. If you have any questions about these tutorials or would like further assistance, please contact the UWB IT Help Desk at it@uwb.edu.
Creating a Homepage
- To set up your own personal homepage for a course, go to Course Tools > Homepage.
- Fill out the Introduction text box for your website.
- Share things about you in the Personal Information text box.
- Current Image displays a preview of an image if you have already uploaded one.
- Upload a New Image by clicking Browse... and selecting a picture.
Note: Blackboard doesn't resize photos, so it's recommeded that you don't upload photos larger than 200 pixels width or length.
- Check Remove image if you have previously added an image and want to remove it from your profile.
- You can fill out link forms for up to three websites at Favorite Websites.
Viewing Homepages
- To view your own and everyone else's homepage, go to Communication > Roster.
- You can either:
- use the Search tab to look for specific people if you know their name
- go to the List All tab and click the List All button to see everyone.
- Click on someone's name to see his or her personal page.
- You will see a page similar to this one:
