How to Change Your Blackboard Course’s “Entry Point”
When a user enters a Blackboard course, the first page they see is the course’s “entry point”. By default this is set to be the announcements page. If you wish you may change your course’s entry point to be a different menu item within your course.
Control Panel
1. Enter your course's Control Panel.
Settings
2. From the Course Options area, click on Settings.
Course Entry Point
3. Click on Course Entry Point.
Select Entry Point
4. Using the dropdown menu, select the course menu item which you wish your Blackboard course to use as an entry point.
5. Click on Submit.
6. Click on OK.
7. Go back to the student view of the course.
Refresh
8. You may find that your new entry point is not shown immediately. Click on the refresh button of you web browser. This will make your browser see the new entry point. Your students may also need to do this.
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