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Enrolling Users/Instructors to your Blackboard Course

Manually enrolling users is not common, as student enrollments are loaded automatically. This process is most frequently used to add another instructor to a course.

View Enrolling Users to learn more

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Selecting a Menu Style

In Blackboard, you can customize your course menu style including the font and color.

View the Select the menu style article for additional information.

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Menu Icons in Blackboard

You may see the following two icons next to items in your Course Menu.

The square icon with a rising diagonal slash indicates a Menu Item is hidden from students.

Hidden menu links

The square icon with a dashed line border indicates a Content Area contains no content. An empty Content Area will not appear for students.

Content area with no content

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Overview of the Home Page

Each course site includes a Home Page by default. This module page is similar to the Notifications Dashboard, but it displays only notifications relevant to the current course and is customizable by the instructor.

For additional information, view the Overview of the Home Page article.

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Accessing the Global Navigation Menu or the My Blackboard Menu

This menu provides quick access to your notifications, posts, other courses, the Retention Center, calendar, etc.

To learn more click, Accessing the My Blackboard Menu to read the article.

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Turning On/Off Edit Mode

When you need to make changes to your Blackboard course site, Edit Mode must be turned on.

View Turning On/Off Edit Mode and locate the blue circle with the letter “D” in the article.

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Updating Your Course Structure

You can browse course structures, predefined course materials such as menu links, instructions, and content examples that can jump-start your course organization.

Click here to read the article: Updating Your Course Structure.

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Adding a Course Banner

Adding a banner can add some personalization to your course and is done in the Course Style Options menu.

To learn more click, Adding a Course Banner to view the article.

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Flagging Posts in Blackboard

Within a Forum conversation thread, you can flag posts you want to review again, later, or indicate as important.

To learn more, under the following Create Threads page,  see the “View a Thread” section.

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Setting Course Availability

The availability setting of your course determines whether or not students will be able to access your course site. A course listed as (unavailable) will not appear in the students’ course menu. You change course availability in the Course Properties menu.

To learn more refer to the Course Properties article.

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