Blackboard (Faculty) - Course Availability: Make Course Available
Blackboard administrators, instructors, course builders, teaching assistants, and graders can see and access unavailable courses from the My Courses tab and the course list, but they're marked as unavailable. Students can't access unavailable courses regardless of the course duration. Unavailable courses don't appear in the course catalog.
On the Administrator Panel in the Courses section, select Courses. Search for a course. On the Courses page, open a course's menu and select Edit. Edit the course properties. You can't change the course ID. Select Submit. In the course search results, Blackboard Learn indicates unavailable courses with a red X.
When you create a course, Blackboard Learn requires only two course properties: a course name and a course ID. However, several other course properties control important aspects of courses, such as when they're available. You can edit course properties and add settings that weren't included when the courses were created. You can also merge courses.
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.
Under Course Management, click Users and Groups. Then click Users....To make the course available:Under Course Management click Customization.Then click Properties.Scroll down until you see Availability. Click the radio button next to Yes to make the course available. Then click Submit.
From the course panel on the left of the screen, select the “Customization” drop down menu. Scroll down to “Set Course Duration”, click the “Select Dates” button, and select the date that you wish to open/extend your course visibility for your students.
Under Course Management, click on Customization, then Properties. Scroll down to Set Availability....From the Blackboard dashboard, navigate to the Tools module on the left side of the screen and click the Qwickly Faculty & TAs link.Click Course Availability.Click OFF for each course you want to “hide” from students.
Tool availability settings On the Control Panel, expand the Customization section and select Tool Availability. Select or clear the check boxes of the tools you want to use in your course and which users will have access to these tools.
Make a course unavailableGo to the course you want to make unavailable.In the Control Panel (at the bottom of course menu on the left-hand side) Click Customisation. Click Properties.Under section 3, Set Availability, select No.Click Submit.
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The note “private” in your course title means that the course has not yet been made available to your students. To make your course available, follow the How to Make Your Course Available to Students instructions.
Changing Tool AvailabilityFrom the Control Panel, click Customization. Click Tool Availability.To make a tool Available, select the tool's check box under the Available column. To disable a tool, clear the tool's check box.Click Submit.
The Course Management menu is located on the lower left menu bar on the Course Home Page. The course management menu provides instructors with tools to create, manage and modify the course. Files, Course Tools, Evaluation, Grade Center, Users and Groups, Customization, Packages and Utilities, and Help are available.
Adding Tools to the Course MenuMake sure Edit Mode is ON.Click the (plus sign) icon above the Course Menu.Select the Tool Link.Enter a Name for the link.From the Type drop-down list, select the tool to add.Select whether the tool will be Available to Users.Click Submit.
Select Filter by to sort the table based on availability status for the tool and for the role users have in a course. Filtering makes it easier to see which tools are available and visible, and change settings based on those criteria.
If your institution has licensed any building blocks, they appear in the list of tools on the Tool Availability page.
When you create a course, Blackboard Learn requires only two course properties: a course name and a course ID. However, several other course properties control important aspects of courses, such as when they're available.
A complete course is in a read-only state. Enrolled students can open the course and access the course content as normal, but are not able to interact in the course, such as participate in discussions or submit assignments.
Course themes add a background image to the course display and change the color of the user interface, including the course menu, buttons, and controls. The theme can be changed again at any time. Applying a theme doesn't affect course content or a chosen course structure.
You may find it most useful to bulk delete course materials at the end of a course. You can select the materials you want to delete and keep the rest for use in the future. For example, you can delete students and grades from a course, but keep the content.
Only instructors can set a course to complete from the Courses page. Administrators can control course availability from the Administrator Panel, but can't mark a course as complete in this area. On the Courses page, instructors can control availability for the courses that they teach.
Remove users from a course. When you remove users from your course, the action is permanent and irreversible. All of the information associated with the users, such as Grade Center information, assessment and assignment information, and course statistics are also deleted.
Batch Enroll Users adds multiple users to your course and assigns them a course role. Users that don't exist in the system will be created in the system and added to your course. User data is defined in a batch file that must be created outside the system. Common creation tools are text editors and Microsoft Excel.
The Users page lists all enrolled users in your course and allows you to manage their settings. In many cases, your institution handles course enrollments for registered students and manages their accounts.
You will now see a list of users who are enrolled in your Blackboard Learn course.
You will now see a screen similar to the image above labeled Change User's Availability in Course. Under Role and Availability, Available (this course only) select the desired availability status from the menu. When finished, click the Submit button to update the user's role.
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.
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.