Create Development Course

Development course is a course within the Blackboard@GW system, intended to give faculty a place to begin work on future courses. Students may not be enrolled in these classes. Once you give your new course a name and submit, the new course will appear immediately on your main course listing page. Development courses are often used for course materials that are repeated from semester to semester. You can create the materials in Blackboard one time, then use the Course Copy tool to post them into official Banner generated courses.

Note: Development courses can only be accessed by TAs and Faculty. Students cannot access development courses.

Development Course Screen

To merge up to seven course rosters

  1. Control Panel > More Tools (from Course Tools pane)
  2. Create Development Course.
  3. Enter your desired Course Title.
  4. Submit.