All current Detroit Mercy students, faculty, staff, and administrators have access to Blackboard.
Student accounts are created after the...
Blackboard course sites have long had a 6GB limit on the total size of a course site. This limit is necessitated by limits on our overall...
Blackboard course sites come in two styles -- the older original or "classic" style and the more modern ultra-style. Though the two...
Courses on Blackboard are added based on course assignments in My Portal's Self Service section.
The list is updated on the even...
Blackboard course sites are grouped by Term (e.g., Term 1 2020).
The College, School, Department, & Program...
Blackboard course sites are limited to 6 GB of storage. Under most circumstances, this should be plenty of storage for a course.
Merging courses is a way to seamlessly put students from two or more courses into a single course site.
If you're teaching a single...
Course sites are kept on Blackboard for 4 academic years.
Every year, the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning archives...
What is the Plan?
Starting with Fall Term 2026-2027 offerings, all new Blackboard course sites will use the new Ultra course view....
The free, web-based content creation tool Canva can be used to create a variety of attractive items for use in a Blackboard course site. In...
If you cannot find your course in Blackboard, the first step is to verify that your course is assigned on Self-Service.
Regular Blackboard course sites have their student and instructor accounts enrolled automatically, through Blackboard's Banner integration....
In a Classic-style course site, the bulk-delete tool lets you remove large chunks of content (or users) in a single step.
You'll...
In the CONTROL PANEL section of your course site navigation, open CUSTOMIZATION and choose TOOL AVAILABILITY.
Locate the...
At the top of the Blackboard Courses page you'll find a Search Your Courses box.
If you enter all or part of your course...
You can use the filter bar at the top of the courses page to select and view courses from a particular term. Just click the TERMS box to open a...
When you first launch a closed, recently created Blackboard course site, you will be presented with a message prompting you to Try the Ultra...
From the Courses List
1. Click the more button on the course's listing (...)
2. Select Open Course
Course banners appear at the top of the course home page, as well as above the course card in the tile view of Blackboard's Courses page.
Course cards in both List and Tile view have a star icon on their right side. Clicking this icon turns it purple and pins that course card to the...
From the Blackboard Courses List View
When you first sign into Blackboard on the Courses list page you will find the full CRN above the...
While courses are only kept on Blackboard for 4 years, the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning maintains an offline archive of older...
At the top of the Courses page, open the FILTERS pulldown list (right of the Terms filter) and select HIDDEN FROM ME. If you do not see a...
If you are listed as instructor, TA, or Course Builder in a Blackboard Classic course, and you wish to make any changes to the site, you'll...
The Blackboard courses page defaults to a list view of course cards. Each card displays the course's Blackboard course ID (the best method for...