Avoid “Folder Empty”
It is helpful to remove any content areas and tool links that you will not be using in your course. This creates a clean course menu and allows students to find the relevant course information quickly. |
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Manage Course Menu
Blackboard provides you with a default menu of items that can be changed, removed or re-ordered. To provide maximum flexibility, Blackboard allows you to modify the default menu to reflect the areas of Blackboard you are using. You can also add a new Content Area, Tool Area, Course Link or External Link directly to your course menu.
Content Areas in Blackboard are simply empty folders. The names are suggestions, and can be changed to fit your course, or removed all-together if not being used.
Tool Links include features that provide many different ways to communicate with your students. These areas include Announcements, Course Calendar, Tasks, Discussion Boards, Send Email function, Collaboration, Staff Information page, Student Homepages, etc.
Course Links are helpful if you wish to link from the main course menu directly into a sub-folder of a content area. An example would be if you had folders for each week of the course in the outline section, and your course menu provided a link directly to each week’s contents. This would reduce the student clicks from two to one.
External Links are helpful if your students are required to monitor an external web site for current events or other course-relevant information. You could provide a link to a newspaper or organization web site right from your main course menu.
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