how to make course available to studetns in learn blackboard

How do students access Blackboard courses?

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 enroll students in a Blackboard course?

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?

Click "Open to students" to make your course immediately available. In card view: Hover over the top right of the desired class to expose the three horizontal dots (course menu) and then click. Click "Open course". You will be prompted to confirm your decision. Click "Open to students" to make your course immediately available.

How to create and add a course on Blackboard?

Mar 04, 2021 · You can make your course available to your students immediately by: 1. Log on to your course. 2. In the left hand navigation menu, click on Customization and then on Properties. 3. In step number 3, select the YES radio button under Make Course Available. 4. In step number 4, you can further refine your availability.

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:

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.

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.

How to contact Blackboard at USC?

Call our Blackboard Help line 24 hours a day, every day at (213) 740-5555 and choose option 2. Faculty can request help and training from USC’s Enterprise Learning Technologies group by submitting a request to [email protected].

When does the summer semester end?

Student access to summer semester courses ends on October 1. Student access to fall semester courses ends on February 1. Student access to spring semester courses ends on July 1. If students would like to see their final course grades for previous semesters, they can view their official grade reports on OASIS or MyUSC.