Blackboard courses created by SITS are attached to Blackboard’s Institutional Hierarchy.
This allows school administrators to have access to all of their school’s taught modules on Blackboard, view content within, and quickly enrol themselves if they need to (eg to create assignments, post announcements etc).
Search for a course
When logged into Blackboard with your staff account, click Admin
On the Administrator Panel, click Courses
Select the type of information to search:
- Course ID – For taught modules this is the academic year, then an underscore, then the module code.
- Course Name – Contains the year, module code, and module title.
- Instructor – search by an instructor’s username
Select a search condition
- Contains
- Equal To
- Starts With
- Not Blank – shows you all courses you’re allowed to see
Enter the text to search for, eg a module code or a username
If required, choose to search for courses created before or after a certain date (see the tips below, for a quicker way to search for a module in an academic year)- Click Go
Your results are displayed underneath the search options.
- A
in the Status column shows that a course isn’t available to students. - You can sort the list by clicking on the column headings.
- Click the Course ID to enter the course
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If you require access to a Blackboard course and you can’t find it, email telsupport@aston.ac.uk.
Enrol on a course
Please note that there is no 
in Blackboard Ultra. You need to enrol yourself through the enrollments screen, accessed from the Administrator Course list screen mentioned above.
Having found the course roll your mouse over the Course code and open the context menu by selecting the toward chevron button 
that appears.
Select Enrolments from the menu.
Select Enrol Users from the top left of the next screen.
Type your username in the username box and then select Instructor from the role selection dropdown menu. Then hit Submit and you will be enrolled on the module.
If required you can enter multiple usernames at once in the following format: username1,username2,username3 (no spaces)
Tips
Email announcements
When enrolled on the course, you will receive announcements sent as emails by the instructor(s). You can create a rule in Outlook to reduce the noise – either move them to a folder (so you can scan through them at a later date), or automatically mark them as read.
Emails sent by Blackboard are sent from do-not-reply@blackboard.com
Search for a module from a specific academic year
Search Course ID so that it Starts with the four digit academic year then an underscore, then the module code
Find a course if you don’t know the module code, but know (part of) the name
Search the Course Name for something that Contains the name of the module.
If you don’t know the exact name of the module, search for a key word. This should be enough to narrow down the search results
See a list of your school’s courses that haven’t been made available yet
Search Course ID so that it Starts with the current academic year followed by an underscore [1], eg
2017_
Then click on the Status heading on the table of results [2] so that it displays the results in ascending order.