Quick Start Guides

Podcast episodes are displayed within a course in chronological order. They can be played directly from the course page. If a student subscribes to the podcast feed, the episodes can be played in a podcatcher or on an mp3 player.

Note: Each course has only one podcast feed. Students are not be able to subscribe to the feed until you enable the RSS feed option on the Manage Podcast page.

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Steps

1. Enter a course.
2. Click a content area link in the course menu frame.
3. Click the Edit View link located at the top right of the page.
4. In the Select field, select Podcast Episode.
5. Click the Go button.

Episode Information

1. Enter the name of the episode in the Title field.
2. Enter the description of the episode in the Description field if applicable.

Podcast Media

1. If the content media is stored on your computer, click the Browse button for the Attach local file option and navigate to and select the file.
   
   If the content media is stored in the Blackboard Content System, click the Browse button for the Copy file from the Content Collection option.
   Navigate to and select the file in your Content Collection.
   Click the Submit button.
   
   If the content media is stored on another website, enter the address in the Link to an external URL field.

Supplemental Attachments

1. If you want to attach additional files to the episode, click the Browse button for the Attachment options and navigate to and select the files.

Options

1. If you want students to access the episode, select Yes as the Make the episode available option.
2. If you want to restrict access during a specific timeframe, select the appropriate Display After and Display Until options.

Submit