Manage Blackboard Courses

Renaming Blackboard Courses and Course Requests

1. Login to Blackboard with your username and password.
2. Under the My Courses heading, click on the name of the course that you wish to delete.
3. Click the Control Panel link in the lower-left corner of the page.
4. Under the Course Options heading, click the Settings link.
5. Click the Course Name and Description link on the Settings page that appears.
6. Under the Course Name and Description heading, replace the contents of the Course Name text box with the desired name.
7. Verify your decision, and click the Submit button at the bottom of the page. Click the OK button on the confirmation page that appears to return to the Settings page.

Hiding and Restoring Courses from View

Courses may be hidden from view to prevent clutter on the main Blackboard Screen. However, this will NOT hide the courses from all enrolled students, just the user who hides the course.

1. Under the My Courses heading of the My Institution page, click on the pencil icon.
2. Check or uncheck the boxes to enable or disable display options for each course.
3. When done, click Submit at the bottom of the page to apply the settings.

Archiving a Course

To avoid permanently losing a course to the routine purging that occurs at the end of every Fall term, you may save the contents of your courses as an archive on your office computer for future reference.

Any instructor who later wishes to have their course restored may do so by providing the archive file to ITS. The course can be copied and re-installed back into the Blackboard system.

1. Under the My Courses heading, click on the name of the course that you wish to archive.
2. Click the Control Panel link in the lower-left corner of the page.
3. Under the Course Options heading, click the Archive Course link.
4. Click the Archive button on the Archive Course page, then submit on the following page that appears. Your web browser may not respond for a minute or so, depending on the size of the course, but do not hit the Submit button a second time. You will get a message that the archive action is being queued. Hit the OK button.
5. Return to the Control Panel, and click on the Archive Course link again. If the page looks the same as before, wait a few minutes and then try again.
6. Right-click on the new link underneath the Archive button, which should contain the course number, and choose Save Target As... from the drop-down menu that appears to reveal the Save As window.
7. Choose a file name for the archive and a location to which to save it, and click the Save button. Your course has now been archived.
8. After saving the course to your hard-drive, delete the archived file from the server by clicking the Remove button and selecting OK on the popup window.

Removing Blackboard Courses and Course Requests

In addition to the courses that will automatically be deleted at the end of each Fall term, you may also mark additional courses for deletion by changing the title of the course. All courses with the name "please remove" will be deleted by the members of ITS.

Note: It is recommended that instructors archive their courses before they flag them for deletion. ITS will not automatically archive any courses. To learn how to archive a Blackboard course, see the previous section.

1. Login to Blackboard with your username and password.
2. Under the My Courses heading, click on the name of the course that you wish to delete.
3. Click the Control Panel link in the lower-left corner of the page.
4. Under the Course Options heading, click the Settings link.
5. Click the Course Name and Description link on the Settings page that appears.
6. Under the Course Name and Description heading, replace the contents of the Course Name text box with the name "please remove" (without the quotation marks).
7. Verify your decision, and click the Submit button at the bottom of the page. Click the OK button on the confirmation page that appears to return to the Settings page.