Customize the Blackboard Home Page
Blackboard Help-Sheet
Please note: Due to continual Blackboard updates, you may notice slight differences in color theme and other appearance features when comparing the screenshots below to what you see in Blackboard.
Q: When I log in to Blackboard, I see a list of courses, but I cannot find my current course. How do I change which courses appear in this list?
- Log in at blackboard.wustl.edu.
- Click on the gear icon in the My Courses box. The icon will not appear until you move your mouse over the module.
- The list of courses appears in alpha-numeric order, starting with the semester (e.g. FL2011). We highly recommend checking the box for Group by Term to help organize the list. Check the box to the left of to any course you would like to appear in the list in the My Courses box. Un-check the box of any course that you do not want to appear. Click Submit at the upper-right corner.
- If you would like to reorder the displayed list of courses, move your cursor to the left side of the page, next to the course you would like to reorder, and under the arrows icon. Click and drag the course to the desired place in the list.
- Click Submit.
You can edit these settings at any time to display the necessary courses in your My Courses module.
Q: How do I reorder, add, or remove the boxes (modules) that appear on the default course home page in my Blackboard course?
- Log in to Blackboard at blackboard.wustl.edu.
- Click on the title of your course in the My Courses module to enter the course.
- To edit the boxes (modules) that appear on the default course home page of a Blackboard course, confirm that Edit Mode is turned on. It is located in the upper right-hand corner of the page. If it is turned off, click “OFF” once to turn it on.
- To rearrange the Modules, click on the Up and Down Arrow box in the upper right hand corner of the page.
- A box titled Reorder: Modules will pop up.
5a. To move a module up or down the page, select the Module name you would like to move, then click the up or down arrow below that Column to move it up or down on the page.
5b. To move a Module from one Column to another, select the Module name, and click the left or right arrow between Column 1 and Column 2. Click Submit to finalize changes.
- Another way to rearrange the Modules is to Click and Drag the box to the desired location. Mouse over the name of the Module so that it turns into a four-directional cursor. The same symbol will appear at the upper left hand corner of the box and the box will change color, then the box can be clicked and dragged.
To add or remove Modules from the page, click Add Course Module.
- A list of Course Modules will appear. To add a Course Module, click Add. In order to see more about the Module, click (More) or the little box in the upper right-hand corner of the Module.
- To see less, click (Less)… or the little box.
- To remove a module, click Remove.
- You can also remove a module from the Home Page, by mousing over the upper right-hand corner of a Module Box and clicking on the “X.” If a Gear Icon appears, you can click on the Gear icon that appears to change the settings of the Module Box.
- Get Started with Blackboard
- Create an Account
- Access and Navigate Blackboard
- Access Contextual Menus
- Add Guests to a Course
- Combine Multiple Course Sections (Course Merge)
- Customize the Blackboard Home Page
- Enable Older Courses
- Make Your Course Available
- Provide Access to Student Graders, Assistants, and Guests
- How to Clear a Cache in a Browser
- How to Enable Scroll Bars in Mac OS
- Build a Course
- Anonymous Grading
- Copy Course materials from one course to another
- Customize the Course Menu
- How to Create and Use Rubrics
- Changing Course Entry Point/Home Page
- Connect a Course to Ares (Electronic Reserves)
- Create a Banner Image for a Course
- Create a link (URL) to content outside Blackboard
- New Box View Inline Grading
- Create an Item to Hold Files and Content
- Create folders
- Create Learning Modules
- Embedding a Box Folder
- Syncing Your iClicker Data with Course Roster on Blackboard
- Upload a .zip file to Content Collection
- Upload individual files
- Upload multiple files
- Uploading your i>clicker Scores to Blackboard
- Use Student Preview
- Use the Course Calendar
- Foster Communication
- Create Assignments and Assessments
- Set Up Grade Center
- Help Desk @ The Teaching Center