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