BLACKBOARDCOURSEBASICS

LOGINTOBLACKBOARD HIDE/SHOWCOURSEMENU
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To access Blackboard you can go to: 1 To Hide the Course Menu inside a course you can click on the
arrow head pointing to the left.

Your username consists of the st letter of your st name, the

st letter of your last name and your seven-digit UTB and TSC
identi ation number.

Your password is the same

PIN you use for Scorpion
Online. You can contact the
Help Desk at (956)
882-4357 to verify your
password or to synchronize
your login credentials.

NAVIGATEANDMANAGECOURSECONTENT
1 Blackboard tabs lead you to di erent main content blocks. The MY
COURSES tab will display the modules for the courses and 2 To Show the Course Menu inside a course you can click on the
arrow head pointing to the right.
organizations you are enrolled among other relevant modules.
To Manage the list of courses displayed in My Courses Module click
on the personalized icon.

This small gear icon will open a page to manage the list of the courses
EDITINGCONTENT
to be displayed in this module. To start editing the content in the course be sure the Edit Mode is
1 always ON. The Edit Mode option works like a toggle. You can turn
2 After clicking the gear icon in the Personalize: My COURSESpage,
you can uncheck the Course Name for the courses you don’t want it ONto start editing the content or you can turn it OFFto see all
to be listed in the My Courses module and ally click Submit. the available content as students or other users will see it.

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CREATECONTENTAREA CONTROL PANEL
The Control Panel contains some options to access the Virtual
1 To Create a new Content Area point the cursor to the Plus sign
above the Course Menu and select Create Content Area.
Content for the course, the available Course Tools, the Grade
Center and other selections for Course Management.

The Virtual Content

In the Name ed will display all the es
textbox enter the and information stored
name for the new in the content collection
content area. for the course.

The full Grade Center

and its di rent views
Be sure you check
can be accessed by
the option to make
it Available to Users. expanding this Grade Center

To change the appearance,

the color and the format
for the course, you can
Finally, click the Submit button to select Style from Customization
complete the process.
You can click on the double arrows
pointing to the right to expand the view
or click on the double arrow pointing up
or down to expand or collapse

ARRANGEMENUITEMS FORMATCOURSEMENU
To arrange the order of the items in the Course Menu you can use
the double head arrows on the left next to each option to drag the 1 To format the Course Menu, under Customization select Style.
item up or down to move them in the Course Menu.

1 Click on the reordering button to

reorder the menu items.

2 Select a menu item and then click

on the up or down arrows to move
the item to the desire location.

3 Click Submit when done

arranging your items.
or
1 Use the double head arrows on the left to move the
menu items up or down. Mouse over the arrows, click You can select the options under Style to select the
and drag the item to the desire location. colors for the text and the background or buttons
type from the Button Library included.

ADDCONTENT
ENTRYPOINTOFTHECOURSE
To add content into a regular Content Area select and click the
content area name from the Course Menu and then point to the
st tab Build Content. 1 To change the entry point of the course under Customization
select Style.

In the scroll down menu you can select the item

from the Course Menu to be used as the Entry Point
To upload a e you can select the Item option to or st page of the course. Also, you can attach the
attach the document and use the Text box window e to include a course banner.
to enter information or select the File option to
simple attach the e.

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