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 available. As the instructor you will need to go in and make the course site unavailable prior to the start of semester, if that is your desire. If you neglect to do this, just remember that students will automatically be able to see the course one week prior to the start of the semester (and not before). So, if you're still tweaking your course, you may want to go in and change the availability settings.
- From the 'Control Panel' click on ‘Properties' located under 'Customization'.
- Section 3 Allows you to "Make Course Available".
- Select 'No' and click 'Submit' to make the course unavailable to students
- Or, so you don't forget to go back and click 'Yes' at a later point, leave the availability as 'Yes', but chose a specific date for your course to become available. N.B. You are only allowed to set available within the Jenzabar assigned running dates of the course. Setting the dates outside of the Jenzabar assigned running dates will not make the course available to students any earlier or later than one week prior to or following the semester.
When are course sites made unavailable to students?
Course sites will automatically become unavailable to students approximately two weeks after the semester ends. Please note that courses will only remain in Blackboard for one additional semester following the end of the course. It is the instructors responsibility to back up or archive their course.
Hiding old courses from My Blackboard homepage.
- At the top right hand corner of the My Courses section there is a gear 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'.
