how to make a course available in blackboard

by Gennaro Labadie 7 min read

Making Your Blackboard Course Available

  • Navigate to the homepage of your course in Blackboard
  • Scroll down and click Customization, then click Course Properties
  • In the Set Availability section, select the Yes option
  • Click Submit, and your course is made Available

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.

Full Answer

How to put your course on Blackboard?

Open a course card's menu to change your course availability. You can also change your course's status on the Course Content page. You can make your course private while you add or experiment with content, and then open it to students when you're ready.

How to create and add a course on Blackboard?

Locate the course you want to make available/unavailable on your My Courses list and click the link of the course ID. After entering the course, scroll down and click “Customization -> Properties”. Scroll down to the SET AVAILABILITY area of the page and change the “Make Course Available” to “Yes” Then click Submit to save the change.

How to access your course in Blackboard?

You can adjust the availability by: Clicking the menu button for the course from either list view or grid view and then clicking "open course." Click "Open to Students" in the subsequent dialog to confirm your choice.

How to make a course available?

column of Blackboard’s Home Tab. The Qwickly Module is visible ONLY to individuals with the Instructor Role in a course. To make your course(s) available: 1. Click on the Course Availability link. 2. A list of all courses that you have an Instructor role in will expand, showing you which courses have been made available (ON) and which are unavailable (OFF).

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Why is my course not showing up on blackboard?

Courses may not appear in the My Courses module in Blackboard for a few reasons: The instructor has not yet published the course for student view (most common reason). The student has not yet successfully registered and paid for the course. ... The student may have a hold on his/her record.

How do you make a course visible to students?

Make course topics visibleGo to the topic you want to make visible and click on the closed eye icon to make it an open eye icon.Course content is now visible.

How do I make my course visible in canvas?

Please contact your Canvas administrator or Canvas Support for assistance.Open Settings. In Course Navigation, click the Settings link.Open Course Details. Click the Course Details tab.Update Course Details. Click the Update Course Details button.

How do you make a course visible to students in canvas?

By default your Canvas course is not visible to students. To make it visible, click the Publish button in the upper right corner of the Home page: Publishing the course does not mean all the individual content will be visible.Jan 4, 2022

Instructions for USC Instructors Using Qwickly (current semester courses)

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,

Instructions for USC Instructors NOT Using Qwickly (current semester courses)

Locate the course you want to make available/unavailable on your My Courses list and click the link of the course ID.

Instructions for USC Instructors NOT Using Qwickly (while in current semester course)

From inside the course you wish to make available to students, in the upper right corner of the course, locate “lock” icon.

Instructions for USC Teaching Assistants

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.

About Course Availability

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.

What is course availability?

The Course Availability setting allows Instructors to make a course available or unavailable to students. Unavailable courses are not accessible to students, but are visible and accessible to instructors, teaching assistants, course builders and graders.

Where is the lock icon on Blackboard?

With Edit Mode on, there is a lock icon in the upper-right corner of your Blackboard Course as of March 2018. During an active semester, clicking the lock icon will change the course's availability to students.

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