Scholar

What is Scholar?

Scholar is a free academic resource sharing, or social bookmarking, service that is customized for education, and integrated with the Blackboard Learning System. Built on the principles of Web 2.0, Scholar provides students and faculty with an exciting new way to store, share and discover educationally valuable resources on the Web and use them in their everyday teaching, learning and research.

How does Scholar work?

1. SEARCH - do simple or more advanced search by tag, discipline, and/or institution. You set the parameters to get exactly what you need.
2. BROWSE - check out other users' resources and collections to help in your own courses and studies.
3. SUBSCRIBE - choose search terms or a user's collection that is relevant to you and sign up to receive the most recent bookmarks via RSS.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking offers an increasingly popular way to find, save, classify, evaluate and share Internet resources. Users can save or bookmark favorite Web sites and classify, or tag them anyway that works for them. These bookmarks are then added not only to their personal list, but also to the overall repository where others can see them. (That's the social part!) Students and instructors can then use each other's classifications, as well as any of the other information they now have on those resources (who saved it, how many people saved it, etc.) to evaluate and find what they are looking for.

Social Networking

Students and faculty can not only share resources with other users with similar interests, but also build deeper relationships and networks within Scholar. This empowers users to further collaborate and leverage expertise with colleagues and peers across institutions, across the globe.

Blackboard Scholar is customized For Education

Scholar customizes social bookmarking for education  making it even more valuable to Blackboard instructors and students in a number of ways.

• 1. Users can find resources based on the academic credentials and disciplines of the people sharing them.
• 2. Instructors can use the social bookmarking as a course tool by pulling dynamic information into the course, as well as allowing students to add to the collection of course resources.
• 3. Scholar is integrated directly into the Blackboard Learning System  right at the fingertips of instructors and students for instant use in research, studies, or courses.

Support

At anytime you can click the Help Button in the upper right hand corner for detailed support information, here is direct link to those support pages:

• Scholar

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Related FAQ's

Q: Can I take my account with me if I move to another institution?

Yes, you can take your information from your Scholar account with you.

Q: Do I need to create an account?

Yes, first you need to create an account to use Scholar.

Q: Can I add tags for my bookmarks and are they public or private?

Yes, once you add a bookmark there are options available to add either "tags", "discipline tags" or "course tags". You can also change the radio button from Public (selected by default) to Private.

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