{"id":775,"date":"2013-01-26T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/?p=775"},"modified":"2013-01-26T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:46:00","slug":"adding-a-banner-to-a-blackboard-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2013\/01\/26\/adding-a-banner-to-a-blackboard-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a Banner to a Blackboard Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A course banner brightens up a course home page and helps users identify the course they&#8217;ve entered. Any image can be made into a banner, but the ideal dimensions are shallow and wide.* Text can be added to an image using editing software, such as Photoshop, or an online image editing tool such as <strong><a title=\"Photo editor | PicMonkey: Free Online Photo Editing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.picmonkey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">picmonkey.com\/<\/a><\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The CTL provides pre-made banners and instructions <strong><a title=\"CTL Blackboard banners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/ctl\/blackboard\/banners.html\" target=\"_blank\">on this page<\/a><\/strong> or come to the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/ctl\/doctor\">Dr. Is In<\/a> <\/strong>for help.<\/p>\n<p>*If you use the announcement tool in your course, you\u2019ll want to make sure your banner isn\u2019t so tall that it pushes the announcement area out of sight. Read more about that <a title=\"CTL Blackboard banners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/ctl\/blackboard\/banners.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A course banner brightens up a course home page and helps users identify the course they&#8217;ve entered. Any image can be made into a banner, but the ideal dimensions are shallow and wide.* Text can be added to an image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2013\/01\/26\/adding-a-banner-to-a-blackboard-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackboard-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}