Course Status in Blackboard Ultra (NEW!)

Modified on Fri, 10 Jan at 10:49 AM

NOTE: This article is about Blackboard Ultra. For instructions on changing course availability in Original, see this article.

You may have noticed a change in how you make your course available to students. In the upper right-corner of the page, you will see a button that either says OPEN...

The gear icon, followed by the text "Course Settings" and a white button with blue text that says OPEN

or CLOSED.

The gear icon, followed by the text "Course Settings" and a black button with white text that says CLOSED

CLOSED means the site is unavailable to students, but instructors will still be able to work on it.

To change the status, click directly on the button to open the Course Settings page.

You will see a number of course settings on this page. What is perhaps less intuitive is that to open the site (make it available to students), you need to look under the heading Close Course.

In this image, the site is available to students.

The Close Course option, with a gray toggle button that is turned off. Text says "Course content will be unavailable to students. When the course is closed, it continues to appear in the course listing but students cannot access it."

In this image, the site is unavailable to students.

Heading: Close Course, followed by a toggle button that is toggled on. Text says "Course content will be unavailable to students. When the course is closed, it continues to appear in the course listing but students cannot access it."

There is a third option called Complete Course. This option is used when a course ends. It allows you to leave the course visible, but neither you nor the students can make any changes.

If the label on your course on the Courses page doesn't change after you change the setting, refresh the Courses page.

Blackboard has more information about course settings in Ultra in this article.