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by Jakayla Zemlak 4 min read

Instructor - How do I save my Course Material to use at a later date?

From your course's Control Panel (on the left side), click on " Packages and Utilities ".

Instructor - How do I add another user to my course?

Students are automatically enrolled in Blackboard courses based on class rosters in Merlin. If a student adds a class after the start of the term, it may take up to 24-hours after he/she appears in your Merlin roster to be enrolled in the Blackboard course.

Instructor - How can I change the role of a user in my Blackboard course?

Identify the user whose role you wish to change and click on the action button (inverted caret). The action button will appear on the right of the username when you hover the mouse pointer in the row that contains the student’s name.

Instructor - Why am I unable to add a student to my course?

The student must have been previously assigned to this course at some point in the past. Once a person is added to a course by Datatel Datatel "owns" their user status in the course, and doesn't allow instructors to subsequently alter that status (regardless of whether the person is still assigned to the course).

Instructor - Where can I find more information about building a course in Blackboard?

Blackboard.com offers several training videos on course creation and specific features of the product. To view the training videos, please visit Blackboard's official help website at:

Instructor - Why is extra text appearing in column headers when Grade Center is downloaded for offline use?

Symptom: A Grade Center that has been downloaded to work offline will include extraneous text in the column heading (usually "instructor.download.column.total"). Unless this text is removed before the file is reuploaded, the extra text will be added to the column headers within Blackboard.

Instructor - I am not able to scroll horizontally in the Grade Center on a Mac

This issue is due to OS X’s different settings for scrollbars starting with Lion. The workaround for Lion and Mountain Lion users is as follows: