Uploading Wimba packages to Blackboard

Here are instructions on how to create Wimba packages and upload them to Blackboard. They should take you through the entire process.

Starting Wimba Create

  1. Open Word document
  2. Start Wimba (Add-Ins > WimbaCreate > Start Wimba Create > OK)

Add Styles to your Word document

  1. Select Home
  2. Highlight text in document that you want to style
  3. In the 'ribbon' at the top of the screen select the arrow that points down to the bottom right in the Styles section (in between Paragraph and Editing)
  4. Select the style from the drop-down list
  5. Repeat until you've added all the styles you want

*Wimba styles tend to start with cg (e.g. cgPageTitle)

Generate a multiple choice question

  1. Select Add-Ins > Multi Choice > Multi Choice 2
  2. Enter the Question Title, Instructions, Answers and corresponding their Feedback
  3. Press OK
  4. The question will be automatically generated.
  5. Repeat steps 1 to 4 for each question that you want to create.

Make sure that you are in blank part of the Word document when you start a question. (If your cursor is still in a previous question and you create another one, you will ovewrite it).

Editing an existing question

  1. Place your cursor with the previously generated question
  2. Select Add-Ins > Question > Edit
  3. Make your amendments
  4. Press OK
  5. The changes will be made

Choose the Settings to make a standard HTML Wimba package

  1. Select WimbaCreate > Settings
  2. Select the Content tab and make sure that Normal HTML pages is selected
  3. Press OK
  4. Select WimbaCreate > Generate Course
  5. This will generate and save the course

Uploading the Wimba package into the content collection

  1. You will need to upload the package to either the course, field, or your own personal content collection.
  2. You will then need to make sure that the permissions are set so that the relevant people (e.g. the students on a particular course) are able to access it
  3. You will then need to create a link to the package from that course to the content collection - and point specifically at your uploaded Wimba package.

Please see Blackboard Support's guidance on how to upload, link, and set permissions for your zipped Wimba package.

Page last updated 2 April 2012

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