how to make a course on blackboard

Create a course

• On the Administrator Panel, in the Courses section, select Courses.
• Point to Create Course and select New. You can merge existing sections, allowing instructors to manage multiple sections...
• Provide the course information. This table describes the available fields. [r] indicates a required field. Course...
• Provide a color value in hexadecimal code.

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How to put your course on Blackboard?

33 rows · Create a course On the Administrator Panel, in the Courses section, select Courses. Point to Create Course and select New. You can merge existing sections, allowing instructors to manage multiple sections... Provide the course information. This table describes the available fields. [r] indicates a ...

How to create and add a course on Blackboard?

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.

How to access your course in Blackboard?

However, you may want to make a course unavailable during the building process or after a scheduled course has finished. 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 ...

How to make a course available?

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.

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.

How to change course availability on Blackboard?

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".

What does "unavailable" mean in Blackboard?

"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:

Merge courses

You can merge courses in two ways. One method is to select courses and merge them into a new parent course.

Separate courses

Separation removes a child course from a merged set of courses. The course itself is not deleted, but becomes a distinct course. The course is no longer associated with the merged set, and contains no material from its former parent course. The separated course retains both its content and enrollments from the moment it was separated out.

Option 1

Courses can be made available by accessing the course, then clicking the lock icon located on the top right of the course.

Option 2

On an instructor's Courses page, click the More Options three dots next to a course and choose Open Course.

Option 3

On the course menu, go to the Control Panel and select Customization . Select Properties from the options.