Course Site Availability
When are students added to course sites?
Making a course site available to students
When are course sites made unavailable to students?
Hiding old courses from My Blackboard homepage.
When are students added to course sites?
Students are automatically enrolled in Blackboard course sites as soon as they register for the class with the Registrar and their information entered into the management system, Jenzabar. It can take 24 hours for student enrollments to show up in Blackboard.
N.B. If you need to email students before they show up in your Blackboard course site you can email students through Cougar Connection.
Making a course site available to students
Blackboard course sites are default created as unavailable. As the instructor you will need to go in and make the course site available prior to the start of semester or whenever you wish for the course site to be available to students
- From the 'Control Panel' click on ‘Settings' located under 'Course Options'.
- Click on 'Course Availability'.
- Select 'Yes' and click 'Submit'.
When are course sites made unavailable to students?
Course sites will automatically become unavailable to students approximately two weeks after the semester ends.
Hiding old courses from My Blackboard homepage.
- At the top right hand corner of the My Courses section there is a pencil icon.
- Click on it.
- Uncheck the boxes under 'Display Course Name' and 'Display Course ID' next to those courses that you no longer want to show up on your homepage; it's recommended to hide all of those except current courses. This does not remove a course, it simply hides it. You can go back and unhide it at any time and continue to go into the course.
- Click ‘Submit' and ‘OK'.
