Create a New Course

Course Name [required]

Course names don't have to be unique. For example, you can have three courses titled "Beginning Composition." You can change course names at any time. The maximum length is 255 characters. This field is searchable.

Course ID [required]

Course IDs must be unique. For example, if you have three "Beginning Composition" courses, create three different course IDs, such as comp01, comp02, and comp03.

You can use numbers, letters, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.). All other characters, including spaces, are prohibited.

You can't change course IDs after you create them. This field is searchable.

Description

Descriptions appear in the course catalog listing. Include a course summary and enrollment instructions.

Subject Area and Discipline

Subject areas and disciplines group related courses together for easier searching and browsing in the course catalog.

Term

Terms assign course availability to specific periods of time, such as sessions and days from end of enrollment. You can manage terms, from the Administrator Panel > Courses > Terms.

Both term and course start/end dates are used to organize courses into a timeline on the Courses page for instructors and students.

Subject ID

Subject is allows a course to be associated through the institutional hierarchy and curricular structure of Blackboard LMS. You can manage subject, from the Administrator Panel > Communities > Subjects.

Available

When you make a course Not available, students can see it in their course lists but can't access it. Instructors see unavailable courses in their course lists and can access them. On the Courses page, unavailable courses are labeled as Not Available. Instructors can open courses when they're ready for students to participate.

Duration

This defines the time period the course will remain available.

Available courses are open to students to access or self-enroll in if a course allows self-enrollment.

Select Continuous to keep the course constantly available with no date restrictions.

You can select dates to limit course availability to specific dates. The start and end times are set automatically in the local time of the course creator. If the course creator's local time is Eastern, the time is set by Eastern time. The course will start immediately and the end at 11:59:59.

To limit course availability to a specific number of days after a student enrolls, select Days from the Date of Enrollment and provide the number of days.

Choose a course view option

Specify whether the course uses the Ultra Course View or the Original Course View, or you can leave it up to the instructor to decide which course view fits their needs.

Guests Permitted

If you want to allow unauthenticated or unenrolled users to browse the courses offered at your institution, you can allow guest access to the course catalog. Guests don't need to log in to view the catalog.

Guests can view and access available courses in the Course Catalog if these courses are set to available. If a course doesn't allow guest access, the guest can see the course in the list but can't open it.

Select Course Catalog Category

The category determines where the course description appears in the course catalog.

Add Node

Institutional Hierarchy is available if your institution has access to the Community Engagement features.

To make a course available in more than one institution, select Find Node.

Select whether to search for the node by Name, Description, or Identifier. Select a search condition from the menu: Contains, Equal To, Starts With, or Not Blank. Provide the search term and select Go. In the search results, select the check box of each institution you want to add the course to. Select Submit.

Administrators create nodes on the Hierarchy page.

Banner Image

In the Original Course View, select Browse to replace the image with another. The new image doesn't display until you select Submit to save the course information.

To delete the existing image without replacing it, select Remove. The image is deleted when you select Submit.

Ultra Course View: Shows the current image that appears at the top of a course's Course Content page. The minimum recommended size for the banner image is 1200 x 240 pixels and the JPEG, GIF, or PNG format.

In the Ultra Course View, select Browse to replace the image with another. The new image doesn't display until you select Submit to save the course information.

To delete the existing image without replacing it, select Remove. The image is deleted when you select Submit.

Instructor/System Administrator

You can require that an instructor or administrator handles all enrollments for the course. You can also allow students to email enrollment requests to instructors for approval.

Self-Enrollment

Allow users to enroll themselves in the course. You can limit self-enrollment by time period or access code. If you select Require Access Code to Enroll, provide the text to use for the access code.

Language Pack*

Enforce Language Pack*

The language pack defines the text that appears on buttons, titles, and other navigation items.

Content View

Original Course View: Your options are icon only, text only, or icon and text.

Ultra Course View: All items on the Course Content page appear with an icon and text. You can't change this view.