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Looking at course structures and the Quick Setup Guide

Looking at course structures and the Quick Setup Guide - Blackboard Tutorial

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Looking at course structures and the Quick Setup Guide

When you access a new Blackboard course, your course menu uses a structure that was set by either your institution or your department. At many institutions, you're completely free to edit your course menu. It's your course. You can move the items up and down the course menu, you can go and rename it, hide it, delete it, you can even add new items to your course menu. Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 8 and later introduces an extremely powerful new feature called Course Structures which are predefined sets of course menu links, instructions and if you choose, even fake content examples to help you setup your course. Let me show you what I mean. I have a course here with the default course menu, and if I scroll down and go to Customization, and then click on Teaching Style. This replaces actually the old customization style page, and before we get to the course structure, let me scroll down and show you what else is available here. You can set the Course Entry Point, the first page the…

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