Setting Up Your Blackboard Course

Adding Course Content- Add Item

1. Click on Control Panel

2. Click on the content area where you would like to add the content such as Weekly Lessons, Assignments, Course Information or Course Document.

3. Click on Add Item

4. Type in the title of the document (ie: course syllabus).  Select a color by clicking on Pick (optional). Type in any supplemental text into the box.  You can use formatting from word or copy and paste from a word document.

5. Scroll down and select the “file to attach” by clicking on Browse. 

6. Select the file and click Open.

7. If you would like the file to be available at a particular date, select the date restrictions by checking the “Display After” and “Display Until” box.  Set the dates.

8. Click Submit