Navigate Inside a Course

Your Course Environment

A. Navigation bar: Open frequently used tools in one step. Select the Content, Calendar, Discussions, Gradebook, and Messages tabs to easily access those tools. 

B. Details & Actions: View course information and tools with these options:

• Roster: Access basic profile cards and match faces to names. All course members appear in the roster, and you can't remove yourself.
• Blackboard Collaborate: Use the open Blackboard Collaborate session as a convenient launch point for scheduled and impromptu meetings. The icon appears in purple to show you and other course members when people are active in the Collaborate room.
• Attendance: If your instructor uses the attendance feature, you can access your records. More on your attendance grade
• Groups: View or join course groups your instructor has created.
• Announcements: View course announcements your instructor has posted.
• OneDrive: You can upload files to web apps that run in the "cloud" and aren't installed on your computer, such as OneDrive®.

C. Course content: All of your course content appears in the main part of the page. When you open a piece of content, it slides out in a layer on top of the Course Content page. Close layers to navigate back to a previous spot in your course. Progress tracking allows you to keep track of what content you've completed and which one you still need to go through. More on content in your courses

D. New activity: An activity icon appears when new activity occurs in a course conversation for assignments, tests, and documents. The activity icon also appears to indicate new discussions.

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