{"id":77372,"date":"2014-04-30T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=77372"},"modified":"2014-04-30T11:32:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:32:49","slug":"copypaste-into-blackboard-learn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/teaching\/lms\/blackboard\/how-to\/copypaste-into-blackboard-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy\/Paste into Blackboard Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bbvista8\">\n<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a>In Blackboard Learn, you may find that copying and pasting does not work as expected.  Below you will find a workaround for this issue.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong> you may need to format the text after it has been inserted, as the following method strips out all formatting specified in other programs.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First you&#8217;ll want to compose the text you want to copy.  We recommend doing this in a text editor and saving your work locally so you will not have to re-create your work in the event of data loss during transmission.  Once composed, copy the desired text and proceed to the next step.\n<li>From the content editor, select the inverted chevron icon in the upper right corner.  This should generate two new rows of formatting icons.<br \/>\n<img class=\"screenshots\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2014\/04\/expand.png\" alt=\"expand content editor\"\/><\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>HTML<\/strong> button on the right side of the bottom row.<br \/>\n<img class=\"screenshots\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2014\/04\/htmlbutton.png\" alt=\"HTML Button\"\/><\/li>\n<li>A new pop-up window will appear entitled <strong>HTML Code View<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Paste your text into this new window<br \/>\n<img class=\"screenshots\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2014\/04\/htmlcodeview.png\" alt=\"HTML Code View\"\/><\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Update<\/strong> button. You can now use the built in formatting tools to adjust the text as desired.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END div id=bbvista8 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Blackboard Learn, you may find that copying and pasting does not work as expected. Below you will find a workaround for this issue. Please note: you may need to format the text after it has been inserted, as the following method strips out all formatting specified in other programs. First you&#8217;ll want to compose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6621,"featured_media":0,"parent":53310,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77399,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77372\/revisions\/77399"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}