Banners for Your Online Class

by Sally Kuhlenschmidt, Western Kentucky University

• Background
• Banner Links

Background

Our Course Management System gives you the capacity to change the "banner" that appears when a student first enters a class. This website provides a variety of banners that you can download and use. Some pertain to class business (e.g., a paper is due!) and some are quotations to set a tone or to prompt discussion. I've also included some "blanks" that you can modify using Paint to be a personalized banner.

Making these banners is a hobby for me so I'm open to suggestions. At some times of the year it will take me longer to fulfill requests than at other times and I will give precedence to WKU faculty. I do retain copyright over these images as they are my creations but you may use them for non profit educational purposes. My reward is hearing from you so let me know which ones you are using so I make more of those.

Caveat: In Blackboard course management system, the default "alt tag" for the banner is "<your course name> Course Banner". If you have students who are visually impaired, they will not know what the banner says unless you tell them in the Announcements.

Banner Links

How do you 'get a copy'?

Click on the link of the collection in which you are interested, for PC's in Internet Explorer right click on the image, select Save Target As... and save it to your harddrive in a place you can find it. Then in Blackboard 6.2 ...go to Control Panel....Settings...Course Design...Course Banner and follow the directions.

• Templates to Make Your Own, General Themes
• Templates to Make Your Own, Arts and Cultural Themes
• Class Business
• Quotations with Image of Person Making the Statement
• Quotations with miscellaneous images.

Copyright: copies of materials begining with this URL, http://www.wku.edu/teaching/online/, may be made for teaching and research purposes free of charge without securing permission, as allowed by United States Copyright Law, provided copies are not resold. For all other purposes, permission must be obtained from the website manager or the particular submitter.

I try to use only images that are copyright free or ones I create. These are sources used so far:

• Dover Design Sampler: To sign up for weekly free images: http://www.doverpublications.com/signupdesign/
  • And some from Dover collections I own. (No more than the allowed number per book, however.)
• Wise Gorilla http://www.wisegorilla.com/clipart.html

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