The transition to Blackboard Base Navigation will not change your courses - the course content, layout, and tools within your courses will not change.
However, you will notice some interface and color changes in your Blackboard courses.
For details about these changes, please visit the links below:
How your Course opens in your browser
Return to your "Courses" list
Using Reload/Refresh buttons in your internet browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge)
Color and Logos
Gradebook Layout: Bigger and Less Scrolling
How your Course opens in your browser
- Previously, your Course opened in the entire browser tab. Now your course will slide over from the right.
Original Navigation (current)
Base Navigation (May 11 2024)
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Returning to your "Courses" list
- Previously, to return to your Course from within your course, you clicked on "My Courses".
Now, you will click on the "X" button to get back to your course list.
Using Reload/Refresh button in your web browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox)
- Previously, when you clicked the "Reload" or "Refresh" button in your web browser while in a course, it kept you on that same Blackboard page.
Now, please do not click on the "Reload" or "Refresh" button in your web browser - because it will take back to the 1st page of the course.
Instead, click on the "Refresh" button within Blackboard - because it will bring you back to your current Blackboard page.
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Colors and Logos
Colors and logos will change in the following areas within a Blackboard Course:
Gradebook Layout: Bigger and Less Scrolling
The Gradebook layout is now bigger - more rows and columns fit on screen, which means less scrolling.
See pictures below for comparison between each Gradebook layout.
Original Navigation (current)
Base Navigation (May 11 2024)
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