Title: Managing the Course Menu
Course: Introduction to Oracle SQL and PL/SQL (10610) > Section: Instructors - Getting Started

- Content Area - This is an area where you will place some kind of content. Content can be Word documents, PDFs, Web Pages, assessment links, anything really. The important part is that a content area is a place to put stuff (exactly like a folder).
  - Control Panel > Manage Course Menu > Add: Content Area

- Tool Area - A tool area will link to a Blackboard feature that does something. Examples of Blackboard tools include grade checking, discussion boards, the virtual classroom (aka live chat room), e-mail, Calendar, etc. A tool area will link to a function within Blackboard.
  - Control Panel > Manage Course Menu > Add: Tool Link

- Course Link - A Course Link will link to a specific place within your Blackboard course. For instance, a course link can link directly to a specific discussion forum within your course, or it could also link directly to Unit 3 Homework (which is really in Course Documents > Unit 3 > Homework > Homework for Unit 3). You could consider a course link as, "creating a shortcut to something in my course."
  - Control Panel > Manage Course Menu > Add: Course Link

- External Link - External links are simply links to web sites outside of Blackboard. For instance, you could add a link to the library's MLA documentation site, or your personal website, directly from your course menu.
  - Control Panel > Manage Course Menu > Add: External Link

More information is available in the Bb1 Workshop Guide.