Images can easily be uploaded to Blackboard for students to review. Most of the time you will need to have saved the images to your hard drive before uploading. However, you may also embed a link from an Artstor Image Group or save a web page of up to 100 images from Art & Architecture Images and upload the web page to Blackboard.
Upload a single image
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Click on Course Documents
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Navigate or create a folder if necessary
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Click on Create Item
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Name the Item and add any other information
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Scroll down to Attach Local File
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Click the Browse button and navigate to the image on your hard drive and click Open
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Click Submit
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The image will appear as a link and will not automatically load unless you choose Display media file within page under Special Action before Submitting.
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Upload a group of images
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Put all of the images you want to upload into a single folder
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Zip the entire folder using the software of your choice. The resulting file must be in .zip format
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Click on Course Documents
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Click on More
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Choose Add Document Package
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Click Browse under Select package file and navigate to the .zip file on your hard drive
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Click Submit
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Blackboard will unzip the file into a new folder named the same as the .zip file. The images will be named by their file names. You may edit each image to rename or add other information
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Embedding Links to Artstor Image Groups
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Go to Artstor and log in
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Click on the Organize menu > Open an image group. A new window will pop-up
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Highlight the image group and click Open
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Click the Share menu > Generate image group URL. A new window will pop-up
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Highlight the URL. MAKE SURE you highlight the entire URL, which runs longer than the display box!!
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Hit Ctrl / Apple + c to copy the highlighted URL
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In Blackboard, Click on Course Documents
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Navigate or create a folder if necessary
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Click on Create Item
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Name the Item
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In the Text field enter the name of the Artstor image group
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Click on the hyperlink button (globe). A new window will pop-up
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In the URL field, erase the "http://" and hit Ctrl / Apple + v to paste the URL
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Click Submit
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The link will not open Artstor. It will open a pop-up window exactly like the Artstor Image Viewer. You can navigate back and forth through the Image Group using the arrows at the very bottom of the window.
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Saving a web page of images from Art & Architecture Images using My Favorites
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Find images you want to save and click the check boxes next to the titles to select
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Click on the Add to favorites link above the image thumbnails
Items selected using the Add to favorites button are temporarily stored in the browser. Items selected on one computer do not transfer to another, nor will they remain after the browser clears its cookies. My Favorites is limited to 100 items at a time. You will receive a warning when My Favorites is full. Items are stored in the order they were selected.
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When you are finished selecting or My Favorites is full, click on the My Favorites button at the top of the page
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Name the web page in the Save as Web page dialog at the bottom of the left-hand menu
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Click the Create button. A new page will open in your browser
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Go to the Files menu and choose Save As... Make sure you choose Web Page, HTML only in the Format pull-down menu under the file name
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In Blackboard, Click on Course Documents
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Navigate or create a folder if necessary
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Click on Create Item
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Name the Item and add any other information
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Scroll down to Attach Local File
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Click on the Browse button and navigate to the web page file and click Open
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If you want to have the page of thumbnails display rather than Blackboard simply adding a link to it, choose Display media file within page under Special Action
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The web page has thumbnails and links to the images in AAI. It does not save the full size images. Users accessing the page must be on computers connected to the UO network or using the VPN to see the images.
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