Advanced Academic Courses Only: Typing Hebrew
Note: Hebrew classes use different methods for submitting homework, so modern Hebrew study does not involve needing to type or write vowels. Hebrew students should rely on the instructions in their course information for doing and submitting homework. Only students who would like to type Hebrew into online discussion boards need this information.
Use the Right Browser
According to our testing, when Hebrew is coded as special characters for HTML viewing, the only browser that currently displays Hebrew with nikud correctly is Firefox, which you can download for Mac or PC at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/. Opera, for the Mac, will also display correctly.
Why do you need a browser that displays HTML Hebrew, even if you have Hebrew fonts installed? Because if you and your classmates discuss Hebrew terms by typing them into the Blackboard discussion board, they will be converted into HTML special characters for you.
Enable Your Computer's Hebrew Typing Capabilities
Why is this important? Because, though you can use a word processor like Davka or MS Word to type in Hebrew fonts even without this capability, those fonts are treatments of normal English text to display differently. That’s why that trick only works inside that specific software. Instead, you need to type text in Hebrew using the Hebrew keyboard in order to create real Hebrew text that you can enter or paste into the Blackboard discussion forum.
These two links lead to instructions on enabling and using the Hebrew typing feature:
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