View and Edit your Profile

Click your name from the main menu at the left to access your profile. Your profile appears with some information, and you can't delete your profile. Your institution decides what you can customize.

• Profile picture: Upload a picture to replace the generic silhouette.
• Basic Information: Update your personal information.
• Password: Change your system password.
• Global Notification Settings: Set up notifications for course activities.

Upload your picture

You can store one image file in your profile.

1. Point to the generic silhouette or your picture and select the pencil icon to upload, change, or remove an image.
2. In the panel, select Upload new profile picture to browse for your picture on your computer. Or, you can drag a file to the Upload area.
3. Your image is saved automatically. Close the panel to return to your profile.

Remove or replace your image: Upload or drag in another image. To return to the generic silhouette, select the Delete this picture icon to delete your existing image file.

Edit your info and preferences

Your profile is the place to edit the information attached to your persona.

1. Point to a detail such as Full Name and select the pencil icon.
2. In the panel, make changes and select Done.

Watch a video about editing your profile

The following narrated video provides a visual and auditory representation of some of the information included on this page. 

Video: Edit your profile shows how to edit information attached to your profile and add a profile picture.

Edit Notification Settings

On your activity stream's Notification Settings panel, you can choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your courses:

• Activity stream: Choose which activities appear on your Stream page.
• Email: If you want to receive email notifications, add an email address to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.
• Push notifications: Messages pop up on your mobile device if you have the Blackboard app for students installed. You can select which notifications are sent to your device.

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You can choose the types of notifications you receive and how they're delivered to you.

On your Activity Stream page, select the Stream Settings icon to open the Notification Settings panel. You can also access these settings from your profile page.

Stream notifications

You can control which activity appears in your stream. Select the Stream Notification Settings tab to open the panel.

Notifications for due dates and items ready to grade always appear in your stream.

Choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your courses:

• Institution announcements
• Course announcements
• New content
  • Assessment added
  • Content added
• New gradable items
• New courses available
• Grades need reconciliation
• Student performance alerts
  • Students who are participating or may need help
  • Compare students' grades with their activity levels
  • Number of students falling behind
  • Number of students falling behind and absent
  • Number of students falling behind and failing
  • Number of students falling behind, absent, and failing
• New discussion
• New calendar event
• New course or organization
• Blog activity
  • Blog entry posted
  • Blog entry edited
  • Blog comment posted
• Journal activity
  • Journal entry posted
  • Journal entry edited
  • Journal comment posted
• Wiki activity
  • Wiki page created
  • Wiki page edited
  • Wiki comment posted

You can choose to receive all or some notifications of a certain type. A checkmark appears when you select all notifications. A dash appears when you select some notifications.

Email notifications

Select the Email Notification Settings tab to open the panel.

If you haven't added an email address to your profile page, you won't see any options in the Email Notification Settings tab.

Organization activities won’t trigger email notifications.

Choose how often you want to receive emails for activities in all your Original and Ultra courses:

• Email me right away: Receive individual notifications for each activity you choose from the list.
• Email me once a day: All notifications are collected and sent once a day at a time set by your institution.

In the Notify me by email about these activities list, choose which notifications you want to receive:

• New gradable items
• New messages
• New discussion messages
• New content added
• New and upcoming due dates
• Past due items
• New courses available

Clear all the check boxes if you don't want to receive emails about the activities in the list.

Push notifications

If you have the Blackboard mobile app installed, you can receive push notifications on your mobile device. You can manage which push notifications are sent in these ways:

• Blackboard on the web: Log in to Blackboard on a web browser and navigate to your Activity Stream. Select the Stream Settings icon. From the Notification Settings panel, select the Push Notification Settings tab.
• Blackboard app: In the app's main menu, tap Settings. Manage push notifications in the app.

Customize the Course List Page

From the Base Navigation menu where your name appears, select Courses to view a list of your courses.  The Courses tab will be displayed when you log in to Bb.

• On the Courses page, you can access all of your courses.
• You can view the Courses page as a list or a grid. Toggle views using the icon at top, left of the Search bar.
• If your course has multiple instructors Multiple Instructors will be displayed. Click that text to open a list of instructors in the course.

Courses that are associated with a term will always be displayed under that term. Note, however, that a course associated with a term that is made available to students (such as a restored course for an incomplete) will display both in the current term and in term it is associated with.

Filter or search your list

Use the Filter menu to modify your view of the page.

• Search your courses by words in the course name or characters in the course number. The course list will dynamically adjust as you type in the search area (see #2 in image below).
  
  
• Filter by term and other categories. You can filter by term to display courses from the past, present or future. See the dropdown menu indicated by #3 in the image below.
  
  
• There is also a filter allowing you to filter by Courses I teach, Open Courses, Private Courses, Completed Courses. See the dropdown menu indicated by #4 in the image below.
  
  
• If you teach a lot of courses, you can choose how many appear on each page. At the bottom of the list, you'll find a page selector to navigate through long lists. See the numerical dropdown at the far right of the top row of filters, labeled "Items per page."
  
  
• View your favorites quickly. If you access a course frequently, you can select the star button (see #5 in the image below) to add it to your favorites so it appears at the top of your course list. You can select the star button again to remove a course from your favorites.

You cannot reorder courses in the list. Courses are listed in alphabetical order and grouped by term with the newest courses first. Your favorites appear at the top of the page.