Course Availability in Blackboard

As of Fall 2007, Blackboard course sites will be created automatically for all academic courses sixty days in advance of the first day of the term. Students will be enrolled into courses when the course is created and add/drops will be updated twice daily.

Courses are created as ‘unavailable’ to students (hidden from students but accessible to the instructor). Instructors must change the setting to every course every semester when they are ready for students to access the course. Instructions for doing so are below.

Making Your Blackboard Courses Available to Students

From your course in Blackboard, do the following:

1. Go to the Control Panel.
2. Click on Settings located under the Course Options heading.
3. Click on Course Availability.
4. Select ‘Yes’.
5. Click Submit.

Your course is now available to students!