Navigating the Blackboard Learn Courses Page
Instructions below will help you navigate the Course Page in Blackboard Learn Original.
In this page:
- Change Views/Set Favorites
- Filter by Term
- Filter by Course Role
- Search for a Course
- Private Courses
- Hide/Unhide Courses
Instructors and students use the Courses page to access their course lists. They can use Search to find a specific course, use Filters to organize the list and use Favorites to pin courses to the top of the list.
To open the Courses page, click the Courses link in the base navigation menu on the left:
The Courses page displays Current Courses by default each time you open it. Courses are grouped alphabetically by term and can include courses from both current and past semesters. Users can display, search, and filter the page in different ways to locate the course(s) they want to access.
Change Views/Set Favorites
- Click the Grid View or the List View icon in the top-left corner to display courses as cards with images (tiles) or in a vertical list without images.
- Click the "star" icon to add the course to the Favorites list. Courses marked as Favorites appear at the top of the course list.
- Click the "star" icon again to remove a course from Favorites.
Filter by Term
Click on "Current Courses" at the top of the Courses page to display the list of available terms.
Click on the Filter list on the left side of the Courses page to display the list of available course roles.
Search for a Course
- Type at least part of either the course name OR the Blackboard Learn Original course ID in the "Search your courses" box at the top of the page. The list will show only courses that match the search term.
- Click the "X" button in the Search box to display all of the courses again
Note: Search only finds courses within the currently displayed list. To Search again, select a different course term from the Current Courses list at the top, or click the Filter All Courses list and select a course role, then enter the Search term again. You may also find courses by clicking the Upcoming Courses link in the top-right corner of the page.
Private Courses
Until the course instructor makes a course Available to students, the word "Private" or a "locked" padlock icon appears on the course. Instructors and students can filter the course list to display just the Private courses if they choose.
- Instructors: Can click on a "private" course to open it, make changes, add content, remove content, and make the course Available to students at any time.
- Students: See courses they are officially enrolled in, but they can't open them if the instructor has not made them Available. If students click on a course marked Private they see this message:
Instructors: Click the "More options . . ." (3 dots) icon on a course > select "Open course" to make it available to students -- OR -- select "Make course private" to make it Unavailable again.
-- or -- 
Hide/Unhide Courses
Instructors can Hide courses they don't need to see and Show them again when they want to see them on the Courses page - the course is Hidden only from that user's Courses page and does not affect other users.
- Click the "More options . . ." (3 dots) icon on a course > select "Hide course".
- To Unhide a course: select "Filter" > "Hidden from me" > click the "More options . . ." (3 dots) icon on the course > select "Show course".
NOTE: You will only see the "Hidden from me" option if you have hidden a course. If you have not hidden any courses it will not show up.
Note: Students can not hide their courses; they can set a Favorite on a course to move it to the top of the page.
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