how to make courses available blackboard

by Mona Toy 9 min read

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.

How to put your course on 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 create and add a course on Blackboard?

Optionally, when you make a course available, you can choose one of these options in the Set Course Duration section: Continuous (default) to leave the course available without a specified start or end date. Select Dates to choose a start and/or end date. The start and end times are set automatically. The start time is midnight and the end time ...

How to access your course in Blackboard?

Sep 04, 2021 · Blackboard courses are always accessible to instructors and teaching assistants; however, a course must be made available before students can access it. 9. Make your Blackboard course available to students – askIT

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.

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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:

Option 1

From within your course, you can click the lock icon in the top right menu.

Option 3

If your course is set to Private, you can make it available to students by clicking the three dots (…) and choosing Open Course. You do the same thing to make it Private. If a course is Private, students see it in their course list but they are unable to enter it. This prevents student emails.

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