This document outlines the transition from eCompanion to Blackboard and includes detailed information on how to download your eCompanion Content and Documents to Blackboard.

Moving your eCompanion content to Blackboard

There is currently no feature that allows direct export from eCompanion into Blackboard. To move course content from an eCompanion course shell (i.e. word, documents, excel files and images) into Blackboard you will need to do a few simple steps. We recommend that you create a folder on your Desktop and save all eCompanion course content and documents to that folder. Let’s get started.

Create a folder on you desktop

1. Right click an open area on your Desktop, select New and then Folder – a new folder will appear on desktop. Rename folder “New Bb Documents”

Downloading Course Content

1. Log into your eCompanion course at http://rutgersonline.net
2. Click the Academics tab and go to the Instructors Templates sections.
3. Click the link of the desired course (i.e. Biology MaryAnn Smith (Professor) - eCourse).
4. Click the Author tab to switch to the Author mode and then click the desired content area.
5. Click the Content Unit link, and then click the Download a copy of this file. You will need to download each Content file separately. This is where you will make use of the “New Bb Documents” folder that you save on your Desktop.)
6. The File Download window will open asking if you “Would like to open the file or save it to your computer?”, click Save.
7. Locate the “New Bb Documents” folder on your Desktop by clicking the down arrow in the Save in box.
   Click Save. You may or may not see the file Download complete dialog box – if box appears click Close. Then close the blank Internet window.
8. You can download each additional document by repeating steps 5 through 7

Downloading Course Documents

1. Log into your eCompanion course at http://rutgersonline.net
2. Click the Academics tab and go to the Instructor Templates section.
3. Click the link of the desired course (i.e. Training MaryAnn Smith (Professor) - eCourse).
4. Click the Author tab to switch to the Author mode. In the upper left corner of your screen click the Course Home button.
5. Click the File Managers button.
6. In the Course Files section, click the first folder that you would like to download files from.
7. In the Select an Action section, click the down arrow and select Download a File, then press GO. You will need to download each file separately. This is where you will make use of the “New Bb Documents” folder that you save on your Desktop.)
8. To download a file, select the file in the folder tree and click the Download File button.
9. The File Download window will open asking if you “Would like to open the file or save it to your computer?”, click Save.
10. Locate the “New Bb Documents ” folder on your Desktop by clicking the down arrow in the Save in box. Click Save. You may or may not see the file Download complete dialog box – if box appears click Close. Then close the blank Internet window.
11. You can download each additional document by repeating steps 8 through 10.

Downloading Documents in the Doc Sharing Folder

1. Log into your eCompanion course at http://rutgersonline.net>
2. Click the Academics tab and go to the Instructor Templates section.
3. Click the link of the desired course (i.e. Training MaryAnn Smith (Professor) - eCourse).
4. Click the Author tab to switch to the Author mode. Click the Doc Sharing tab.
5. To download a file, click file in the File/Description section.
6. The File Download window will open asking if you “Want to open the file or save it to your computer?”, click Save.
7. Locate the “New Bb Documents” folder on your Desktop by clicking the down arrow in the Save in box. Click Save. You may or may not see the file Download complete dialog box – if box appears click Close. Then close the blank Internet window.
8. You can download each additional document by repeating steps 5 through 7.

Saving Your Webliography links

1. Log into your eCompanion course at http://rutgersonline.net
2. Click the Academics tab and go to the Instructor Templates section.
3. Click the link of the desired course (i.e. Training MaryAnn Smith (Professor) - eCourse).
4. Click the Author tab to switch to the Author mode. Click the Webliography tab.
5. Right click link, select “Save Target As…”. Click Save.
6. Locate the “New Bb Documents” folder on your Desktop by clicking the down arrow in the Save in box. Click Save. You may or may not see the file Download complete dialog box – if box appears click Close. Then close the blank Internet window.
7. You can download each additional link by repeating steps 4 through 5.

Uploading Course Document into Blackboard

Once you have set up your Blackboard Course and decided which Content Area will be available to students, you can start uploading your content from eCompanion.

1. Log into your Blackboard 6 course at http://blackboard.newark.rutgers.edu (Log in using your Andromeda NetID and password).
2. Click the Courses tab. Under the Courses you are teaching, click the desired Blackboard course.
3. In the left hand pane of the window, click Control Panel.
4. In the Content Area, select the area that you would like to add a document to. This will bring you to the page where you can add an Item, Folder, External Link, Course Link or Test.
5. To Add one of the above options, click the name of the option (i.e. Item). This will bring you to the Add Item window.
6. In the Content Information section - enter the name of your Course Document and then enter your desired text in the Text box.
7. In the Content section - click the Browse button to attach the appropriate document from the “New Bb Documents” folder on your Desktop.
8. Click the down arrow in the Look in box, select Desktop, double click the “New Bb Documents” folder and locate document.
9. Name the Link to File and then select Special Action for file.
10. In the Options section – select appropriate course options.
11. Click Submit to finish, and then click OK.
12. This will bring you back to the Content Documents area. To add additional documents, repeat steps 5 through 11.
13. If you would like to get back to the control panel to add documents to a different Content Area, click the Control Panel link at the top of page.
14. Repeat steps 4 through 11.