Blackboard Original– 2024-25 Prepare for the new academic year
Staff Guide: This is a quick guide to finding and preparing your courses for the next academic year, including a new course checklist.
Course set up
What you need to do to prepare your course for the next academic year.
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Blackboard – Copy course content (rollover)
Staff Guide: Courses created for the new academic year will contain no content. Use the course copy (rollover) tool to re-use course materials from another course. -
Blackboard – Make your course available to students
Staff Guide: Making your course available/unavailable to students. -
Blackboard – Change the course landing page.
Staff Guide: The default entry point is Announcements and this is the first area course users will see. This guide shows you how to change the entry point to a different menu item and correct issues you may have if you delete the Announcement section. -
Blackboard – Change language of a course
Staff Guide: How to change the language of your Blackboard course. -
Blackboard: Create a shareable link to your Blackboard course
Staff Guide: you can create a "deep link" URL to your course (or a content item) so that anyone enrolled on the course can follow the link directly even if they are not logged into Blackboard. -
Blackboard – Updating your course description
Staff Guide: How your course description appears to students and how to update it.