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Courses created in Blackboard are available by default to Instructors,
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TAs, and Course Builders to allow time to work on course updates before students have access to it.
Students cannot access a course set to
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CLOSED, but they will see it listed on their
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Courses
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There are 3 ways to make your course available:
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Use Qwickly on the My Blackboard tab for a 2-click solution to course availability.
- Click Course Availability from the Qwickly Tools module, which is located in the upper left corner of the My Blackboard tab.
- Click ON to make a course available or OFF to make a course unavailable
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Use the Make Available tool from your course Home Page. NOTE: This feature is NEW as of January 6, 2018.
- Log into your course. By default, the Home Page is the first thing you will see.
- Click on the lock icon in the upper right corner.
- When unavailable, the icon appears as a closed lock outlined in red.
- When available, the icon appears as an black open lock outlined in black.
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Modify the course's properties.
- Select and log into the course
- Select Customization from the Control Panel (lower left side)
- Select Properties
- Scroll to property #3 ("Set Availability") and select “Yes”
- Scroll to the bottom of the page Click Submit
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page.
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Requesting Change to Course Availability DatesNOTE: Course duration start dates are set by default to 3 weeks prior to the start of the term. A course will not be open to students until the actual date it is set to open. Course duration must be manually updated by Instructional Technology. If you would like to make a course available prior to the default start date for the term, please Open an RT ticket to request a course availability override. |
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 After the course is opened, you will see a blue OPEN indicator on this page as well as on the main course page.   ALTERNATE PATH TO COURSE SETTINGS - From the Courses Page
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