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To remove an instructor from your Blackboard course, follow the following steps: On the Control Panel, expand the Users and Groups section and select Users. On the Users page, access a user's menu Change the User role from Instructor to Student Next, select Remove Users From Course. A pop-up window warns you that the action is final.
Export and archive your course. You can export your course content for use in the future. This content is included in an export/archive package: On the Course Content page, open the menu on the right side above the content list. Select Export Course Package. The system asks if you want to include student activity data in your export, which is ...
To make the course available, open the course's menu and select Make Available. To make a course unavailable, open the course's menu and select Make Unavailable.
Blackboard Learn provides several reports to help you monitor user activity in forums, groups, and content areas associated with courses. You can also view reports to see which course items are aligned with specific course standards or objectives.
On the Administrator Panel in the Courses section, select Course Settings. On the Course Settings page, select Course Menu and Structures. On the Course Menu and Structures page, select the check box for Enable Course Structures. To disable them, clear the check box.
Child courses have limited options in the menu and need to be managed from their associated master courses. On the Administrator Panel in the Courses section, select Courses. Search for a course. On the Courses page, open the menu and select Edit.
Instead, it becomes a distinct course. The course no longer is associated with the merged set, and it contains no material from its former master course. The separated course retains both its content and enrollments from the moment it was separated out.
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, whether guest users are permitted, and where the course appears in the course catalog.
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.
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.
You can't recover materials you choose to bulk delete. If you choose to bulk delete "Users," all users with the role of Student are removed from your course. The roles of Teaching Assistant, Grader, and Course Builders aren't removed.
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.
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.
In the Select Content Materials to Delete section, select the check boxes for the content areas in the course that you want to delete.
The course ID must be unique and remain static. After you create the copied course, you can't edit the course ID. If you chose Copy Course Materials into a New Course or Copy Materials into an Existing Course, select the course materials that you want to copy over.
You can only copy materials into a course if you have the role of instructor, teaching assistant (TA), or course builder. Copy Course with Users (Exact Copy): Copy user records, such as grades and discussion posts, to the new course. Everything in the course is copied to the new course exactly as it appears in the existing course.
The course menu specified in the source course will replace the default menu in the new course. Copy Course Materials into an Existing Course: Copying course materials into an existing course will add content to a course, but it won't remove existing content. You can only copy materials into a course if you have the role of instructor, ...