How to Add a Search Button to your Blackboard Course Menu
Note: The Search function in Blackboard has been temporarily disabled whilst a technical issue is resolved.
You may add a search button to your Blackboard course menu. This will allow students to quickly search your course. Note that the search is indexed once a day, so if you add something today, users will be able to find it using search tomorrow. Please note that only "06-07" and "07-08" courses are currently indexed.
Control Panel
1. Enter your course's Control Panel.
Manage Course Menu
2. From the Course Options area click on Manage Course Menu.
Add a Tool Link
3. Click on Add Tool Link.
Dropdown menu
4. Use the dropdown menu to select Search as the type of tool you will be adding.
Name
5. Enter “Search” or some other appropriate text in the Name box.
6. Make sure that Available for Student/Participant users is ticked.
7. Click on Submit. You will receive a receipt screen confirming your choice. Click on OK.
Course Menu
8. You will be taken back to the Manage Course Menu page. Your Search menu item is listed as the final item on the course menu. You may change the order in which the Search menu item appears in the menu by clicking on the dropdown menu to the left and selecting a different number.
9. Your search item is now available from your Blackboard course's menu.
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