Fixing Font Resize Error in Announcements

Engineering-LAS Online LearningVersion 1.0

Last Revision 7 January 2016Reviser Tom Schnieders

Original Author Tom Schnieders

This document provides guidelines for properly removing highlighting in Blackboard Announcements. Previously, changing highlighting from yellow to white/clear changes the highlight visibly, but would affect the style of the text; this lead to a font size change when the Announcements are sent out via email.

**Note: This affects anything that has been highlighted in the announcement

Step 1:Go to ELO Template -> AnnouncementsSelect the dropdown chevron next to the announcement and select Edit

Step 2:Select the HTML button

A new window that looks similar to below will appear.

Step 3:Remove the following pieces of code: background-color: #ffff00;(Highlighted in the code block below)

<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Welcome to your online Blackboard course! </span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Getting Started</span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">To get started, be sure to click <b>Course Intro</b> link from the left nav pane<br /> </span></p><p style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Technical Help</span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">For technical issues related to video recordings, annotated notes or Blackboard Learn, contact <b>elotech@iastate.edu.</b> Be sure to mention the <b>course name</b> in the subject. We will respond within <b>1 business day </b>(24 hours) on weekdays 8:00-5:00 PM Monday-Friday CST.</span></p><p style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">For assistance with Blackboard or other technical assistance issues on evenings and weekends, please contact<b> <a href="https://www.it.iastate.edu/services/blackboard" target="_blank">ITS Support </a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #aa0000;"></span></span></b>which provides <b>extended Blackboard support hours</b>.</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding:

0in;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Discussion Board</span></b></span></p><p style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; background-color: #ffff00;">The discussion board is a space reserved for online discussion.  Online discussion boards may be made available for students to answer each other’s questions, and to give and receive feedback.</span></p>

Step 4:Click Update

Step 5:Verify that the Discussion Board section is no longer highlighted yellow and then select Submit.