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Overview

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  • Use the Home button to return to the Learning Place.
  • Use the Help button at any time to go to Blackboard help.
  • Use the Logout button to logout from your Blackboard courses.

Example of course entry page
Screenshot of a course entry page

The menus below may be similar to what you might see in your course or community. They may not all be used and some may have different names. Instructors and managers can choose different items for their course.

Announcements

The Announcements is usually the first page you see when entering your course. It provides day-by-day, week-by-week announcements. Instructors and managers can use it to notify participants of course updates, important notices and general information.

Course Information

Course Information is used to provide general information about the course or community. It may include work program, semester outlines, assessment schedules, objectives and outcomes.

Staff Information

Provides information about teaching staff. As an instructor it is recommended that you provide brief contact details and a photo to help personalise your course.

Course Material

This is the main course content area. All of your curriculum content should 'sit' in this area. Subject content, activities, uploaded quizzes and downloadable document files would be placed here.

Assignments

List any assessment tasks to be completed. Provides assignment descriptions as well as tests, quizzes and surveys.

External Links

List of links to external webpages

Control Panel
Communication tools such as e-mail, discussion boards and virtual classroom. This area provides you with access to email addresses of course participants, discussion forums and group pages.
Course Tools includes personal tools such as calendar, webpage, grade book. This area is mainly used by participants. Use the tools to edit your homepage, exchange files, check and edit calendar and check test scores in the gradebook.

Course Map shows the reflective location of all course content.

Control Panel

Control Panel button appears only if you are the instructor or manager of a community or course. Participants do not see this button. It links you to functions to manage a course or community. This is the working area for instructors and managers. It provides access to

  • add resources and information to each of the menu areas
  • enable and disable options
  • customise your course.
Control Panel

If you have modified the course menu, you may need to select Refresh to view the change.

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