When the Bb courses are created are by default set to be “Unavailable” for students. That is, the students are not able to view the Bb course until you set it visible for them.

To make a Bb course available for the students to see follow the steps below:

• Make sure Edit Mode is ON.
• Click “Control Panel” > “Customization” > “Properties”.

While in the Customization page you can modify your course’s availability.

• Set Availability: Click Yes to make this course available (visible) to users. If No is selected , users in this course cannot access it. To view a video tutorial on course Availability, click here.

From the main course view , you can now easily see an open or closed padlock icon representing the availability of the course to students and quickly change the availability with one click, saving both time and effort. This new feature can be seen below, next to tools such as Student Preview and the Edit Mode toggle.

• Set Course Duration: Time user can interact with the course. “Continuous” means course is always available, “Select Dates” means the course is available only on specific date and “Days from the Date of Enrollment”  means a time limit is set from the day the student enrolls.
• Select Language Pack: Select in which language the course will be displayed and click Yes in the Enforce Language Pack if you want to enforce this language and make the users of this course unable to change it.
• “Submit”: Click Submit to save changes.

The Export/Archive Course feature creates a back up file. This .zip file contains the course’s content and tools and can be imported in other courses. In order for the package to work properly one should not modify or extract its contents.

To archive – backup a Bb course follow the below steps:

• Visit the Control Panel click the “Packages and Utilities” and then choose “Export/Archive Course”.
• Click “Archive Course”.
• In the Select Copy Options field the course that you are currently in should be selected
  Click “Include Grade Center History” if you want to include all the data from Grade center .

In the File attachments section:

• Click “Calculate Size” to see the size of all the course content that you want to copy in MB.
• Click “Manage Package Size” to manage the contents that will be added in the package.
  • A page will open showing all the file that will be including in your package.
  • If you want to remove a file or a whole folder from your package simply check its check box to remove it from the package.
  • The file size of your package is displayed on the top-right of the page.
• After you finish with the file attachments, click “Submit”

Finally, click Submit.

After a few minutes, click the “Refresh” button to see the link to the .zip file that is created.

To download it, simply click it and select in the window that will pop up, the location you wish to save it.

You can import this file into a course, by using the Import Package tool, described below.

To Import the content of your Archive into another container, visit the destination container. Under the Control Panel expand the Packages and Utilities section and click the “Import Package / View Logs” option.

Click the “Import Package” button and the Import Package page shows up.

Here, you select the Archive file you wish to import by clicking the “Browse My Computer” button and choosing the file.

After that, check the materials you want to import (i.e. Content Areas, Announcements and Settings) and click “Submit”.

Wait for a few moments and refresh your container’s page to see the imported material added. Note that the material does not replace but it is added in the existing contents of the container.

Notice: Never upload an Archive Course package that has been edited since it was created and downloaded. Opening the .ZIP file and changing any of the files in the Exported Course package will result in unstable and unpredictable behavior when the Course is imported.

Semester/session/term running courses for Deree Undergraduate studies become “Unavailable” -hidden from students, 15 days after the end of the Re-sit examinations. Instructors though are still able to access and work with the courses. The containers are removed approximately a year after the last day of final examinations (Instructors are always notified via email for the course removal date).

Semester/session running courses for the Graduate School studies are removed approximately after two years of their completion (Instructors are always notified via email for the course removal date).

If you want to remove a prepatory (Prep) course, send an email to Blackboard Administration: [email protected]

You are able to group your courses by the Term they have been created (i.e. Fall Semester 2015). A term is mainly a label with a date range which will be used to define ACG’s semesters, terms, sessions, e.t.c. It will also be associated with Academic Societies and Student Services. The Terms are used for organization and classification purposes.

To be able to group the courses by Terms, you need to enable the option. To do this, follow the steps below:

• Log in to Blackboard Learn.
• Visit the “My Courses” module (the gear button) in the My Institution tab or the “Course List” module (the gear button) of the Courses tab.
• Click the “Manage My Courses Module Settings”.

• Check the “Group by Term” check box.
• Remember to click “Submit”.

Reorder Grouped Courses

• After you successfully group your courses, you can reorder them in any way you want.
• Click on the gear button at the top-right of the “My Courses” module.
• While inside the Personalize: My Courses page, drag the double-headed arrow with your cursor in order to rearrange your Groups.
• After you finish, click the “Submit” button.

To view the contents of a term i.e. Fall Semester 2022, you will click the arrow so as to expand or collapse its contents.