With the new Base Navigation there are no longer any tabs along the top of the screen. Navigation is via the black menu on the left-hand side.

Old Legacy Navigation

New Base Navigation

The old top navigation menu will be replaced by the new left navigation menu:

The old top navigation menu

The new left navigation menu

This page will include important announcements, links and helpful resources.

This page contains your details. Some of the information on this page is pulled from other systems at QU, so cannot be edited. Other information, which shows a pencil when you move the mouse on top of it, can be edited. Examples of things that you can edit on this page:

• Upload a personal image: Move the mouse on the image placeholder above your name until you see the pencil icon, click it and then upload a new image from your computer.
  
  

• Edit Notification Settings: You can control the notifications you receive from Blackboard, whether via email, in the Activity Stream inside Blackboard, or via the mobile app. To learn more, watch the Blackboard Video: Notification Settings, and for further details you can check the Blackboard help page: Notification Settings.

This page displays the most recent activities from all your courses and organizations including, announcements, new content, new submissions, etc. It is similar to a social media stream. We advise you to depend on email and on accessing courses to get the most important information. For more,  see the Blackboard help page: Activity Stream.

You can also edit the Notifications Settings in this page. This can be done from the settings icon at the top right of your “Activity Stream” screen.

You have a choice of two different views of your courses: List View or Tiles View.

List view

Title View

If your course doesn’t have a banner, Blackboard will automatically assign an image for your course in this view.

Organizing and Finding your Courses

You can easily locate your courses through searching, selecting the term, or using specific filters.

1. You can type part of the course name in the “Search your courses” box.
2. All your courses will be listed under 'Current Courses', but you can use the drop-down list to select a specific term.
3. You can also use the Filter to show “Private Courses” for example. These are the courses that are locked and students can’t access them.

Any course with the lock icon is a private course that is not available for you to access. It could be that your teacher did not open it yet. If you think you should have access to this course, please check with the teacher of the course.

Private Course in the List View

Private course in the Tiles View

You can also click on the star to add the course to your favorites so it appears at the top of the list.

For more details, check the Blackboard help page: Find your courses.

Organizations replace the old “Community” tab. In this page, you will access any organizations/communities that you are enrolled in.

The calendar will show all deadlines from your course and any other events that your instructor may add to the course calendar. Don’t rely on this calendar for your assessment due dates. We advise you to keep checking the assessments and their due dates inside your Blackboard course. This Blackboard calendar is not linked to your Outlook calendar.

Course messages are private text-based communication that occurs among course members inside the course. Remember that messages display only within Blackboard, so members should access Blackboard in order to be able to read and send messages.

You should keep checking your email, and announcements posted in your Blackboard courses to make sure you receive all important communication from your instructors.

This page provides you with access to your grades in all your courses. Here are few things to know about this page:

1. When you open the Grades page, the top banner will show the set of courses that you are looking at now such as “current courses” or “Spring 2024”. You can use the left and right arrows to move to other terms.
2. Each Course will appear as a table. Each row in the table represents an assessment item that your teacher made available to you with your grade.

You can click on the assessment title or “view all work” to view the rest of the details in the “My Grades” page of this course.

This page gives you access to several Blackboard tools such as “Portfolios”, which allows you to create your Blackboard portfolio when needed.