E-Packs for your Blackboard CE 8 course
What is an e-Pack? An e-Pack is publisher-created online course material ready to be uploaded into your course site.
Save time developing your online courses!
E-Pack content gives you much more than text alone, making it easy for you to add compelling, interactive online material to your existing course. You won't have to spend your time learning new programs to develop media-rich materials because Blackboard CE 8's content partners have already done the work for you - giving you a broad range of options for dynamic course delivery. You can spend more time teaching and less time worrying about course development.
Give students instant access to high-quality, media-rich online content!
Innovative e-Learning begins with superior digital content. That’s why Blackboard partners with content creators and distributors to provide easy ways for instructors in the global Blackboard community to supplement and enhance their online courses with rich digital content.
Find Digital Content for your course
With the largest selection of online content available today, it's easy to identify digital content that is uniquely suited to your course or that coordinates with your textbook. You can search for digital content by discipline, title, author, publisher, or key features. Blakboard CE 8's selection of digital content is the most extensive in the industry, and we're adding new titles every day!
Locate digital content by going to http://www2.blackboard.com/content/viewpage?name=content_showcase .
Getting the e-Pack content
Check to see if your course textbook has an e-Pack. Go to the above address and simply enter the book's author's last name. If there is more than one author, just enter one of the last names.
If you find an e-Pack, select Request a Copy, and at the next window select
I would like to download and install the e-Pack on my institution’s Blackboard server.
Another form will come up. Fill it out and submit it. Here’s how:
Contact Information: enter your contact information
Designated Blackboard Contact Information: Derek Moore, 951-222-8694, derek.moore@rcc.edu Additional: vincent.alonzo@rcc.edu
Institutional Information: make selections for RCC
Blackboard Learning System (Vista or CE License) Version:
select Campus Edition 8
If you create an ID and password…you can skip this
Product Information: This will be filled out with your text information
Submit
After submission of the form, in a few days you will receive information from the textbook publisher. Derek and Vincent will also receive the message. Send the proper form from http://opencampus.com/faculty to tell Derek and Vincent where you'd like your course to be uploaded in your development sites.