For Faculty: This article provides Blackboard Base Navigation resources on how to find your courses, manage your course states, and customize your course view.

Here is a link to share with your students for similar instructions on how to find and manage their courses.

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How do I find and manage my courses?

From the list where your name appears, you can view a list of your courses.

On the Courses page, you can access all of your courses. Each course card lists the course ID, course title, and instructor. If your course has multiple instructors, select Multiple Instructors to view all instructors. Select More info to see the description and schedule, if added.

Filter or search your list. Use the Filter menu to modify your view of the page. Your filtered list stays as you access courses. If you navigate to another page, all courses show again. Use the search function to find courses on the current page.

View your favorites quickly. If you access a course frequently, you can select the star icon to add it to your favorites so it appears at the top of the list. You can select the star icon again to remove a course from your favorites.

You can't reorder courses in the list. Courses are listed in alphabetical order and grouped by term with the newest courses first. Your favorites appear at the top of the page.

Manage your courses. You can set your courses to these states:

• Open: You can open a course when you're ready for students to participate. This is making your course available to your students.

• Private: You can make a course private while you add or experiment with content, and then open it to students when you're ready. Students see private courses in their course lists, but they can't access them.

• Hide: You can choose to hide a course from your course list to organize your view. Activity for hidden courses no longer appears in the global pages about all your courses, such as Grades. Only instructors have the option to hide courses. To show a hidden course, filter the list by Hidden from me > open a course's menu > select Show course.

• Complete: You can choose to set your course to Complete when the course has ended, but you can no longer make changes to it. Students can access the content, but they can't participate in the course any longer. For example, they can't reply to discussions or submit assignments. You can return the course to Open or Private as you want. However, if a course has an end date, and the end date passes, then students can't access the course any longer. So, if you complete a course and open it again after the end date, students can't access it.

Change your view. You can view the Courses page as a list or a grid. In grid view, you can customize the image on your course cards.

The minimum size for images is 1200 x 240 pixels with an aspect ratio of 4:1. Use this measurement to ensure the best quality. Open the menu in the top-right corner of a course card's image and select Edit course image to upload a new image.

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