{"id":4600,"date":"2015-09-08T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=503"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:04:16","slug":"help-my-course-menu-is-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/tel\/2015\/09\/08\/help-my-course-menu-is-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! my course menu is blank!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few staff have logged support calls since the Blackboard upgrade because their course or organisation menu appears\u00a0to be blank. If this applies to you, don&#8217;t panic, there is a very simple fix &#8211; please see our guide\u00a0<a id=\"4558479_4_xythosFileAnchor\" class=\"event_clickFileName\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bb.reading.ac.uk\/bbcswebdav\/xid-4558479_4\" target=\"_blank\">Resetting the colour of your course menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the steps in this\u00a0guide and your course or organisation menu will revert from this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2015\/09\/blank-org-menu.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-504 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2015\/09\/blank-org-menu-e1441717077129.png\" alt=\"blank organisation menu\" width=\"207\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>to this\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2015\/09\/org-menu-fixed.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-505 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2015\/09\/org-menu-fixed-e1441717184298.png\" alt=\"organisation menu reset\" width=\"206\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason the problem has arisen is that, when we developed the new colour scheme for Blackboard, we found that we could enforce a white menu background for all courses, but were not able to enforce a colour for the menu text. On some courses and organisations, at some date in the past, staff must\u00a0have selected white menu text &#8211; meaning that the menu on those sites is now displaying as white text on a white background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few staff have logged support calls since the Blackboard upgrade because their course or organisation menu appears\u00a0to be blank. If this applies to you, don&#8217;t panic, there is a very simple fix &#8211; please see our guide\u00a0Resetting the colour of your course menu. 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