The Date Management tool can be used to easily change all content and tool dates in your course. This is especially useful if a course copy was performed.
Step-by-Step Guide
How to Use Date Management
- On the left side of your course page, scroll down to the Control Panel.
- Click Course Tools.
- Select the Date Management link.
- First choose how you want to adjust the course item dates.
- Select Use Course Start Date or Adjust by Number of Days, or List All Dates for Review.
- Clicking on Use Course Start Date will display two date boxes. If this content was copied from a previous course shell Blackboard will detect it and populate the Current Start Date box. If the start date for your new class is set, the New box will automatically be filled in, but you can make changes. The difference between these two dates will provide a number which Blackboard will use to shift all the previous dates to the new course dates.
- Adjust by Number of Days is of use if you get behind a few days due to illness, weather, or other scheduling mishaps. For example, if you want to push everything forward a week you would enter 7 into the box.
- List All Dates For Review will fill every dated item in the course to the Date Management Review Page.
This page shows everything that has dates set in your course.
Run Date Management Again will take you back to the Date Management page from which you can automatically adjust all the dates, and the Refresh button will make sure the page is current.
The filter line contains two ways to view the information on the page. The Item Types drop-down enables you to choose the particular type of content you are seeing on the page, whereas the Date Types menu shows the viewing options for different date uses.
By checking the boxes you can adjust only certain dates by a certain number. (A negative number will move the date earlier than it's current location.)
Clicking Name, Due, Starts, Ends, etc will sort the list by that heading.
Clicking the pencil button for any one item will enable you to adjust just that date.
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