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Before you and your students can use Image Database, you must add it to your course. For more information, see Add Page or Tool.

Image Database allows you to create databases of images for your students. The following table describes the default fields for each image database and the suggested content. When you create an image database, you enter the content for each field. The only mandatory field is the Filename field.

Field	Content
Keywords	A required field that describes the image. Note: When students search the image database, WebCT searches this field.
Creator	The person who created the image.
Filename	A required field indicating the location of the image in your WebCT My-Files folder.
Title	The title of the image.
Description	The caption that students see when they view the image.
Thumbnail	The location of the thumbnail image in your WebCT My-Files folder. Note: Thumbnails are small versions of your image. They are useful because they provide a preview of the image and take less time to download than the image itself.

Once you have created an image database, you can hide fields from or release fields to your students, and you can add additional fields to assist you with teaching or organizing your course. For example, if you wanted to make specific images available during certain weeks of the course, you could create a field named Week. You could then release the image to students based on the information in the Week field.