Customizing Terms in Blackboard

Summary

Customizing terms to keep your dashboard tidy.

Instructions

Terms in Blackboard

Terms are now available on Blackboard! What are Terms? This tool provides us the ability to organize classes in your My Courses Module on Blackboard into different semesters:

Terms are default Off. They can be turned On to sort the Blackboard Course Sites by Semester. This can be particularly beneficial to those who see multiple years worth of courses. Regular academic courses will automatically be assigned to the Semester they belong to. Courses that are not connected to an academic course can be assigned to a Term, or left in the "No Term Assigned" area.

How to turn Terms Off and On

• At the top of the My Course module title, to the right corner, you'll see an icon that looks like a gear. When you hover the mouse pointer over the gear you’ll see a message that says “Manage my courses module settings.”

• Click on the gear icon, and you’ll be presented with the "Terms" option on the “Personalize My Courses" page.

• Select the checkbox named Group by Term to turn on the Terms option or un-check box in order to turn off the Terms option.

• Next, from Edit course List select all courses that you’d like to be grouped by Terms.

• Click Submit.

How to reorganize Terms

You may optionally group your courses within their respective terms.
Once this grouping is selected you may then further filter your displayed courses by hiding or collapsing terms by default.

A hidden term will not show up in the module page, and a collapsed term will show up but in a collapsed state. You can expand or collapse terms either from this page or from within the module page itself.

How to add a course to a Term

For course creators:

At the time of course creation, a term can be assigned to a non-PeopleSoft or sandbox course.

For Bb Admins:

Blackboard Admin can add Terms to any course from the “System Admin” courses’ Edit option.

Select System Admin from the Blackboard front page.
Select “courses” from the course Module. At the administration panel Bb page.
From the course list, hover the mouse pointer over the course drop downward arrow icon - chevron and select and click edit.
Scroll down to General information and select a Term for the course.
Click Submit to save new changes.

For Instructors:

Academic Courses that have been created in LMS Middleware will automatically have a Term assigned to it.
Non-PeopleSoft (non-academic) courses do not have the option of assigning a Term.
Courses without a Term will show under a category named “No Term Assigned.”

How to remove a Course from a Term

Only Blackboard Admins can remove Terms.

Select System Admin.
In the Admin Panel, select Courses.
From the course list, hover the mouse pointer over the course drop-down arrow and select Edit.
Scroll down to General Information and select a No Term in order to remove the Term from the course.
Click Submit.