Manage Course Duration in Course Settings Panel – 3900.69

Manage Course Duration in Course Settings Panel – 3900.69

Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, users with privileges

Students are always allowed to access some courses. Other courses have restrictions so students can only access them for a specific time. This is determined by course duration settings. In the past, only administrators or a data integration process could manage the course duration settings for Ultra courses. Even when instructors had the correct privileges, they couldn’t manage this themselves.

Now, course users with the correct privileges can modify the course duration settings for their Ultra courses.

A new Course Settings option appears at the top of an Ultra course if the user has privileges to view or manage settings. The course duration settings are managed here. The course duration can be set to the following:

• Ongoing – no access restriction
• Restrict by Dates—set dates and times for student access to begin, end, or both
• Restrict by number of days from enrollment
• Restricted by the start and end dates of the associated Term - this option only appears when a Term is defined for the course

You can also manage the Roster tool availability in this panel if allowed. Instructors can continue to manage student access to the Roster tool in the Roster panel itself. In future releases, we’ll move more settings to the Course Settings panel.

Image 1: The new Course Settings option appears at the top of the course when the user has appropriate privileges

Image 2: A privileged user can manage the course duration and student access to the roster in the Course Settings panel

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