SEARCH - do simple or more advanced search by tag, discipline, and/or institution. You set the parameters to get exactly what you need.

BROWSE - check out other users' resources and collections to help in your own courses and studies.

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.

HOW DO I CREATE MY OWN COLLECTIONS? To create your own bookmark collections, you need a Blackboard Scholar® account. Only users of the Blackboard Learning System™ (including former WebCT Vista and CE products) can create an account, and you do so through your Blackboard course or by clicking the Scholar tab within Blackboard if your institution has it enabled.

• My institution has Blackboard but can't see how to access Scholar through it.
  Access to Scholar is delivered through a Blackboard Building Block/PowerLink that is installed by the system administrator of your institution's Blackboard Learning System™ server. Talk to your system administrator or help desk about getting access to Scholar.
• My institution does not have Blackboard - can I still use Scholar?
  You can continue to SEARCH and BROWSE all the resources and collections and use them in your own courses and studies. And you can SUBSCRIBE to the collections and streams that are most relevant an valuable to you.

What else can I do with an account?

Not only can you continue to SEARCH and BROWSE resources, but once you have an account, you can also:

• FIND your own relevant, reliable resources to build your collection.
• SAVE & TAG your resources with the classifications that work for you.
• IMPORT resources from your browsers or other social bookmarking services.
• SHARE your collection with other scholars.

Blackboard Scholar is built right into the Blackboard Learning System, for easy integration of relevant, reliable resources and dynamic streams from Scholar, directly into the course.

INSTRUCTORS:
There are two ways Blackboard instructors can integrate Scholar resources directly into the course environment:

Scholar Course Tool - You can display customized Scholar resource collections as a new course tool. You can allow students to contribute to a course collection or set up custom streams to pull anything tagged with search parameters of your choice. (e.g. the most recent bookmarks tagged with DNA and discipline tagged with Nursing saved by instructors). Students in the course can access the Scholar Course Welcome Page by clicking the Scholar course tool and begin using the resources in their studies right away.

Course Documents Type - You can embed one of your Scholar Bookmarks or Saved Searches directly in the course as a new type of Course Documents.

STUDENTS:
Once the instructor has registered your course with Scholar, you can access Scholar resources that your instructor has chosen directly within your course. And now students can contribute to course collections as well! When you find appropriate resources, you can tag them for the course and dynamically add them to the course collection!