In the course search results, Blackboard Learn indicates unavailable courses with a red X. 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.
You can make courses unavailable with the same process by choosing "Make course private" instead of open to students. With Edit Mode on, there is a lock icon in the upper-right corner of your Blackboard Course. Clicking the lock icon will change the course's availability.
A course must be made available before students enrolled in the course can view or access the course and its content. 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.
You can't make a course private during an active term. If a user needs access to a private course, contact your administrator about a course's settings. You can choose to set your course to Complete when the course has ended, but you can no longer make changes to it.
After a course has a category, Blackboard Learn automatically adds the course to the course catalog. You can assign categories in the course properties when you create or edit a course or open the course's menu and select Categorize.
To make a course unavailable, follow these directions:Click on the name of your course in the My Courses module.In the Control Panel on the lower left-hand side, select Customization, then Properties.Scroll down to Set Availability. ... Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Submit.
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.
Locate the user whose availability you wish to change, hover over the username and click on the chevron that appears. Click on Change User's Availability in Course to change the user's availability.
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.
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.
Why are my students saying that the Blackboard course is “private” but I am able to access the materials? The note “private” in your course title means that the course has not yet been made available to your students.
About course availability A course must be made available before students enrolled in the course can view or access the course and its content. However, you may want to make a course unavailable during the building process or after a scheduled course has finished.
Availability, in the context of a computer system, refers to the ability of a user to access information or resources in a specified location and in the correct format.
From the "My Blackboard" page in the My Courses list, click the course you'd like to make available. On the left menu look for the "Control Panel", expand the Customization section and select Properties. In the Set Availability section, click Yes to make the course available to users.
Courses may not appear in the My Courses module in Blackboard for a few reasons: The instructor has not yet published the course for student view (most common reason). The student has not yet successfully registered and paid for the course. There may be an issue with the student's enrollment.
Your profile updates won't show up in the blocked person's My Blackboard stream, and the blocked person's profile updates won't show up in your My Blackboard stream. The blocked person won't be able to follow you or send you direct messages. If you decide to block people, you can unblock him or her later.