Integration, Extension, and Management
Course status and date improvements– 3900.71
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View, Original Course View
Impact: All users
The Courses page is a popular entry point to courses for instructors and students. For both list and tile views of Courses, we've added course start dates or start now prompts. These indicators help users understand what's happening with each course.
Now the course status appears both in the image on the course and as text beneath the course title. When a course is Private and has a start date defined in the future, the date also displays.
Image 1: Course tile view – before (left) and after (right): private course with a start date in the future
If a student has not yet accessed, and Open course with a start date in the past, a Start Now indicator appears. Once the student accesses the course, the Start Now indicator disappears.
Image 2: Course tile view of an Open course that a student has not yet accessed
For administrators: This feature is available for all courses. There are no configurations needed.