Go to blackboard.ohio.edu and login with your OHIO email and password. Blackboard course sites become accessible to the Instructor of Record eight (8) weeks before the course start date. For more information on locating your course list within Blackboard, please see the Find Your Courses Bb Help page.

Students cannot log in to Blackboard until:

• It is no more than two (2) weeks before classes start, and
• At least one (1) Blackboard course has been made available to them.

Students are not loaded into Blackboard until two (2) weeks before the course start date. Additionally, all Blackboard courses are invisible to students by default. Courses will say “(not currently available)” in your Course List until you make the course available to them. You may want to build your content privately before sharing it with your students. For more information on setting your course availability, please see the Make a Course Available to Students Bb Help page.

Open the course in Blackboard and look at the top of the course navigation menu along the left of the course entry page. Following the Course Name, you will find the Course ID enclosed in parentheses. A Blackboard Course ID looks something like this: MATH_1234_101_LEC_SPRG_2019-20

Blackboard course sites become accessible to the Instructor of Record eight (8) weeks before the course start date. The Blackboard learning management system allows you to add a wide variety of content, such as online lectures, multimedia, tests, assignments, and links to websites and social media. For information on creating new content, reusing content from a prior semester, and customizing when content is made available to your students, please see the Course Content Bb Help page.

Need more than eight (8) weeks to develop your course content? You can create a test course in which you can build content that you can copy over once your semester course has been loaded. For more information on creating a test course, please see the Create a Test Course in Blackboard: Instructors Help page.

Blackboard offers flexibility to how you set up assignments within your course. You can create assignments in content areas, learning modules, lesson plans, and folders. You can also create a group assignment and release it to one or more groups in your course. Additionally, you can control when the assignment is available to students, set a due date, allow single or multiple attempts, and even add a rubric for the assignment. For more information on creating, editing, and grading assignments, please see the Instructor Questions About Assignments in Learn Bb Help page.

Blackboard provides a customizable Grade Center where you can easily access and begin grading student work, provide timely feedback, and record attendance all directly within your web browser. You can set tests and assignments with included rubrics to score and post automatically in the Grade Center, or you can choose to edit and assign grades manually. Instructors can even send email reminders from Grade Center to students and members of groups who have missing coursework and can create progress reports, individual, course, and assignment/test statistics. For more information on grading tasks, please see the Instructor Questions About Grading in Learn Bb Help page.

Students officially enrolled through the OHIO Registrar are loaded into your Blackboard course automatically beginning two (2) weeks before the course start date. You can add, define the roles of, and remove additional users, such as TAs or a co-instructor, at any time. For more information on course roles and controlling access to the content and tools within your course, please see the Manually Add Users in Blackboard: Instructors Help page. 

The blank screen for Add/Modify Enrollments generally occurs after you have completed a course copy.

When you complete a course copy, a blue notification banner appears displaying the copy operation status at the top of the destination course Home Page. Some of the tools in Blackboard (including the “Add/Modify Enrollments” tool) WILL NOT function until the notification banner is cleared. 

To clear the notification banner:

1. Wait until the notification banner states that the process is complete. This can take up to an hour.
2. Either one of the following will clear the banner:
   • Select click here to review the copy log, OR
   • Select the X in the upper right corner of the notification banner.

Once the banner indicates the process is complete and the notification banner is dismissed, all of the tools will function normally.

In Blackboard, there is a course shell for every section of each course. At times, it may be more manageable for an instructor to combine the enrollments of all the sections into one course, which contains the content. The merging prevents duplication of effort for the instructor when updating multiple course sections. For details on merging the enrollments of multiple sections into a single course, please see the Combine Course Sections in Blackboard: Instructors Help page.

The “Course Copy” feature can be used to copy course materials from one course shell to another, such as from a Master Course to a term course or across multiple sections of a course in the same term. For example, if an instructor has four sections of the same course one term, they can save time by developing content in only one section and then using the “Course Copy” feature to duplicate the content in the other three sections instead of recreating the content four times. For details on how to complete a course copy, please see the Complete a Course Copy in Blackboard: Instructors Help page.

Use the Blackboard Instructor mobile app to view content, grade assignments, and communicate with students.