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Managing your Blackboard section

Quick guide for Designers and Lecturers

The Manage Course tool allows Designers and lecturers to determine which tools or features will be available for use by students.

Show/hide individual tools to students
 Add/remove tools from the unit
 Enable new discussion tool features (blogs, journals and peer review)
Allow students to add entries to media library collections
Allow students to add web links

Show/hide individual tools to students

  1. Click on the Build or Teach tab.
  2. Click on Manage Course in the Designer or Instructor Tools menu.
  3. Click on Course Menu .
  4. Click on the Show Link or Hide Link button for each tool you wish to show or hide.
  5. To check the result, click on the Student View tab. Hidden tools are also indicated in the Build and Teach view by an (H) next to the tool name in the Course Tools menu.

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Add/remove tools from your unit

  1. Click on the Build or Teach tab.
  2. Click on Manage Course in the Designer or Instructor Tools menu.
  3. Click on Tools.
  4. Each tool that is available to your unit site will have a tick alongside it. To remove a tool, click on the relevant box to remove the tick.
  5. Click Save at the bottom of the screen.

Note: If you remove a tool, the content is saved and will be available if you add the tool again later.

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Enable new discussion tool features (blogs, journals and peer review)

  1. Click on the Build or Teach tab.
  2. Click on Manage Course in the Designer or Instructor Tools menu.
  3. Click on Settings .
  4. Click on Discussions.
  • To enable blogs and journals, click on the circle next to true for Enable Blog and Journal type topic creation.
  • To enable peer review, click on on the circle next to true for discussion.tool.enable.Peer.Review.
  1. Click on the Save Values button.

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Allow students to add entries to media library collections

  1. Click on the Build or Teach tab.
  2. Click on Manage Course in the Designer or Instructor Tools menu.
  3. Click on Settings .
  4. Click on Media Library and then click on the circle next to true for Allow Media Library entries to be created by roles other than designer.
  5. Click on the Save Values button.

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Allow students to add web links

  1. Click on the Build or Teach tab.
  2. Click on Manage Course in the Designer or Instructor Tools menu.
  3. Click on Settings .
  4. Click on Web Links and then click on the circle next to true for Allow Web Links to be created roles other than designer.
  5. Click on the Save Values button.

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