How to navigate around Blackboard

Blackboard landing page

Once you have logged into Blackboard you will land on the Home page. This will have 2 main sections:

  1. Navigation menu
  2. Content area. This will change dependant on the navigation menu option selected

What’s on the navigation menu?

  1. Home Page – Links to sources of help, and is also where we’ll alert you to new features in Blackboard, or when relevant systems are undergoing maintenance work and may be unavailable.
  2. Profile page – Customise your blackboard
  3. Activity Stream page – Notifies you about upcoming events, recent activity, or new content in your modules.
  4. Courses page – Navigate and find your modules. You can search, filter and favourite.
  5. Organisations page – Similar to course, but organisations are at programme level and not teaching areas
  6. Calendar page –
  7. Messages page –
  8. Marks page – links you to the gradable items that are within your courses (This is not your ratified mark) look at your RISIS dashboard for final marks.
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