Bb 9.1 October 2014
The Online and Distance Learning Office has long recommended to faculty that, when they create word-processing documents for use in their Blackboard courses, they save those documents in Rich Text Format (.rtf). Our recommendation was based on the fact that, like Portable Document Format (.pdf) documents, documents saved in .rtf format can be opened in any of the commonly used PC and Mac-based word-processing applications, such as MS Word, Word Perfect, Google Docs, Pages, or OpenOffice.
However, our recommendation has, by necessity, changed. A number of word-processing applications (including the web-based MS Office 365, and Pages), no longer allow users to either save documents in .rtf format or open files in that format. Fortunately, all of these applications enable users to save files in either .pdf format or MS Word (.docx) format. In view of this, we now recommend that, if you are creating a word-processing document for use in your Blackboard course(s), you save your document in either .docx or .pdf format.
Whatever standard word-processing program you may be using, the steps for saving a document in .pdf or .docx format are very straightforward, as you will find when you read the tutorial that the following link points to: Saving Word-Processing Docs in Different Formats.
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As always, please do not hesitate to contact the Distance and Online Learning Office (629-7070/DLHelp@hvcc.edu), if you have any questions, or if you would like to receive training on this topic.
Published: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:53:48 +0000 by m.petersen