When attempting to paste a picture into a Blackboard question you may see this message: "Local image paste has been disabled. Local images have been removed from pasted content."


Due to a bug this functionality has been disabled. To work around this, follow these steps:



  1. Upload your image to the course content collection (go to Course Management > Content Collection > *yourCourseID* > Upload > Upload files)
  2. After uploading the file to your content collection, click the "edit" icon to the right of the picture and select 360 View. Look for an entry called Permanent URL (should be 4th from the top). Copy that URL and paste it for use later.
  3. Go into your test and edit the question. On the text editor look for an icon that looks like this: "<>" This icon opens the source code of the question text. At the bottom of the HTML view, enter this line of HTML:

<p>
<img src="PASTE_URL_HERE" alt="" style="border: 0px solid #000000;" />
</p>

Paste your permanent URL in the code where it says "PASTE_URL_HERE". Keep the quotation marks. For example, mine looks like this:

<p>
<img src="https://bblearn.atu.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-16178255_1" alt="" style="border: 0px solid #000000;" />
</p>