ebrary: ebrary Books in BlackBoard

Your guide to ebrary - how to access ebooks, search, highlight and take notes within an ebook, add an ebook to your ebrary bookshelf, cite ebrary books, and share ebooks with persistent links

Placing ebrary links in BlackBoard Steps 1-5

1. Open your book of choice.

2. Click on 'Share Link to Book' link.

3. Press Control-C to copy the link in the popup window.

You now have the persistent URL for this ebrary book and can place it in a BlackBoard course of your choosing.

4. Log in to BlackBoard and select the Course in which you wish to place the link.

5. Once you have navigated to the location/folder to which you want to place the link, you will click on the Build Content drop down menu then select, Web Link.

Placing ebrary links in BlackBoard Steps 6-9

6. Place your cursor in the URL box and hit, Ctrl + V keys.

7. Fill out other fields as appropriate and hit Submit button.  TIP: If you copy a portion of the text and paste it into the Description Text box the citation will post automatically.

8. The link to your selected ebook has now been added as a web link in course site folder you chose.

9.  When students click on the link it will open to the webpage of that book.

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