The University of Detroit Mercy’s Blackboard course management system include a number of tools that may not be initially available inside a course site. If you are interested in using a Blackboard tool that is not available in your course, check to see if the tool is installed and just needs to be made available to use. To make a tool available to use, go to CUSTOMIZATION under the Course Management heading. Then click TOOL AVAILABILITY. Scroll down the list...
Changes made to Knowledge for the start of Term 2 2012-2013 academic year make it possible to easily add some color to your course site. To the left of the EDIT MODE switch, you should see a quarter-circle composed of colored wedges. To change the color scheme for your course site, select an option from the sizeable list that appears. If you’d like to revert to the original scheme, just select Default....
Course names automatically update to match the official course title as a part of the TitanConnect / Knowledge synchronization. If you make a change to a course name on Knowledge, it will revert to the official course name (as displayed in TitanConnect)....
When created, course sites are unavailable by default. This means you, as faculty, can access the site to load content, but students cannot. When you are ready for your students to access a course site, you’ll need to make it available. The process for making a course site available is fairly straightforward …...
