Blackboard – Edit course menu

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1. Check that Edit Mode is turned ON. This can be switched by clicking ON or OFF.

2. Look at your Blackboard course menu. Hover your mouse over the + (plus) icon.

3. You are presented with eight options for adding to your menu.

In this example we will create a new content area. However all these options work in the same way.

5. Click on Create Content Area.

6. Enter a Name.

7. If you wish for students to be able to access the menu, tick available to users.

You can re-position items by dragging the up and down arrow icon.

Content Area	This will create a new empty content area.
Module Page	This will create a menu item that links a user to a Blackboard module page. Module pages may be customised to contain a limited selection of course modules providing dynamic information taken from the Blackboard course.
Blank Page	This will create a single blank page to which the menu item will direct users.
Tool Link	This will create a menu item that links a user to a Blackboard tool. Types of tool link.
Web Link	This will create a menu item that links a user to an external website.
Course Link	This will create a menu item that links another part of the current Blackboard course.
Subheader	This will simply create a heading that can be used to organise your course menu.
Divider	This will draw a line that can be used to separate sections of your course menu.

Add a menu item