Staff guide: A Sandbox is a course used for planning, testing and experimenting.
What is a Sandbox course?
Sandbox courses are used for personal testing, training and experimenting. Add other staff and use them for planning next year’s course and trying new tools and processes.
Don’t use Sandbox courses for teaching students. Any student accounts will be removed.
If you have an Nhs account raise a ServiceLine ticket to request a Sandbox.
Request a personal Blackboard Sandbox course
- Follow this link to create a personal Blackboard Sandbox course. The course will appear under the Sandbox term heading in your list of Blackboard courses.
- Follow this link to download an Ultra Example course to see an example of a working course. This example course has been provided by Blackboard.
Request multiple Sandbox courses
You can request as many Sandbox courses as you require, but you can only create one Sandbox using the link to our Sandbox CourseBuilder tool above.
- Follow this link to request a further Custom Course/Sandbox.
- In the section “What will this course be used for“: Select the option: “Sandbox: Personal use, testing, planning“. The course will appear under the Sandbox Term heading in your list of Blackboard courses.
- Custom Sandbox courses are created using the template used for teaching Banner modules. If you are using this Sandbox to plan a new Programme Course or Custom Course (for example, for staff/student training), let us know in the ticket, and we can use a different template.
Troubleshooting
Course Builder login: An unexpected error occurred
- Refresh your screen if you see an error when you try to log into the Course Builder tool.
