{"id":150,"date":"2008-12-23T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=150"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:21:40","slug":"undoing-blackboard-8-four-step-recovery-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/undoing-blackboard-8-four-step-recovery-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Undoing Blackboard 8: Four-Step Recovery Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/images\/bb.gif?w=648\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\" align=\"right\" \/>At MiraCosta, the tech folks set up a Blackboard class for every section, on-site or online, whether we like it or not. It&#8217;s set as unavailable, but students email asking where it is, and many use Blackboard like a portal. The result has been recommendations that we use our Bb course to guide students to our course if we use other places instead (i.e. Moodle, a blog, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>My workflow for undoing a Bb class in four steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Create a standard web page with basic class information, including the URL to enter the real course.<\/p>\n<p>2. Go into the course in Bb, Control Panel. Using Manage Course Menu, add External Link (with Name &#8220;This course is not in Blackboard&#8221;), linked to your information web page.<\/p>\n<p>3. Still in Course Menu, Remove all other items.<\/p>\n<p>4. In Manage Tools, Tool Availability, unclick all boxes for Communications Area and Tools Area. (This prevents fruitless clicking around the tools in the Tools box part of the Menu, which appears automatically otherwise.)<\/p>\n<p>The result is a Bb page that shows your info page only, and from which students can go only to links you&#8217;ve got on that page. It&#8217;s even simpler than in previous versions of Bb, where you had to reset the entry page and could only modify menu items.<\/p>\n<p>So go ahead. Lead them the heck out of there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At MiraCosta, the tech folks set up a Blackboard class for every section, on-site or online, whether we like it or not. It&#8217;s set as unavailable, but students email asking where it is, and many use Blackboard like a portal. The result has been recommendations that we use our Bb course to guide students to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,37,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-how-to","category-online-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}