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Preparing Your Blackboard Course for the new Navigation Template

Last Updated On2022-01-04
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The Educational Technology and Online Learning department, in conjunction with the Quality Matters Committee, is launching a new course navigation template in the Spring 2022 semester.

The new course navigation template will be moving from Announcements, Getting Started, Course Content, Assignments, Course Tools to Announcements, Getting Started, Coursework, My Grades, Student Support.

Note: if you currently use just Course Content OR Assignments, but not both, please skip to step #7 in this guide. You only need to rename the button/link if you already only use one.

This is what the transition should look like.

Old navigation: Announcements, Getting Started, Course Content, Assignments, Course Tools to NEW navigation: Announcements, Getting Started, Coursework, My Grades, Student Support

Preparing Your Sandbox Course for the New Blackboard Navigation Standard

Note: You can choose either Assignments or Course Content for the following directions. The main goal is that there is only one content area that contains all coursework and that that content area is called Coursework.

  1. Navigate to the Course Content section of the sandbox course.
  2. For each item in Course Content, click the chevron by each item name.
  3. Click Move in the menu.
2. click the chevron by the item name 3. click Move
  1. Click browse to change the Destination Folder.
  2. In the new window, select Assignments.
  3. Click the Submit button.
4. Click Browse.... 5. Click Assignments in the window that pops-up 6. Click Submit button
  1. Once all items have been moved from Course Content to Assignments, click the chevron by the Course Content link.
  2. Click Rename Link.
7. Click the chevron by the Course Content menu item 8. Click Rename Link
  1. In the text field type Coursework and press enter or click the checkmark next to the text.
Type Coursework in the field provided
  1. Click the chevron by the Course Tools link.
  2. Click Delete.
10. Click the chevron by the Course Tools menu item 11. Click Delete

The course is now ready to be course copied into the spring 2022 shell, once available.

Note that the Course Tools will no longer be available to students, so any tools (Discussion Board, Journals, third-party sites, etc.) that your students will need access to will need to be linked within the Coursework menu item.

If you need help with these directions, have any questions, or would like assistance, please contact the HelpDesk by email at or at 828-327-7000 ext. 4444.

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