Your Blackboard course is your virtual classroom and YOU hold the key. When you are ready to enable student access to your virtual classroom, simply "unlock" it by making it available. When you do so, the course will be available to students beginning 2 weeks before the first day of classes for the term.
If your course is unavailable, access is determined by course role. Blackboard administrators, instructors, course builders, teaching assistants, and graders can see and access unavailable courses from the My Courses tab and the course list, but they're marked as unavailable. Students can't access unavailable courses regardless of the course duration.
Set course availability You can set your course availability in the Control Panel. Control Panel > Customization > Properties > Set Availability In the Set Availability section, select Yes or No. Use Term Availability only appears if your administrator added your course to a term.
Click "Open to students" to make your course immediately available. Option three: Log into Blackboard Learn and enter the course. In the Course Management menu under Customization, click Properties. Under Set Availability, check the radio button next to " Yes " for Make Course Available. Click the Submit button.
From the Blackboard Home screen, navigate to the Tools module on the left side of the screen and click the “Qwickly (Faculty/TA’s)” link, Click “Course Availability”, Click “ ON ” to allow students to access the course, or Click “ OFF ” for each course you want to “hide” from students.
"Unavailable" means that an instructor has access to the course, but students will not be able to enter the course. Instructors have to make the course "available" to allow students access to the Blackboard Learn course. There are three options to make your Blackboard Learn course available:
In either view, open the course card's menu to change the course availability by clicking the three horizontal dots. Click the three horizontal dots (course menu) to change course availability. Click "Open course".
From the Blackboard Home screen, navigate to the Tools module on the left side of the screen and click the “Qwickly (Faculty/TA’s)” link,
Locate the course you want to make available/unavailable on your My Courses list and click the link of the course ID.
From inside the course you wish to make available to students, in the upper right corner of the course, locate “lock” icon.
Under My Courses on the Home tab, click the name of the “NOT AVAILABLE” course that you want your students to be able to access.
ITS automatically creates a Blackboard course for every course that is listed in the Schedule of Classes. All Blackboard courses are automatically hidden from students.