Sharing Your Blackboard Syllabus

Why share a syllabus?

Sometimes online instructors need to share course information with parties who do not have login access to Blackboard. This can be with department administrators, other faculty or with incoming students before they are able to log into the LMS.  The latter scenario can be especially useful in establishing course expectations and giving students a leg up. See Start of Term preparations for more information about the benefits of reaching out to students early. In Bb, syllabus and lesson pages are .html files, and it can be difficult to share these without losing critical formatting.

Permissions

The easiest way to share your course syllabus or other content is to set permissions. You’ll always need to do this for your course files (see Setting Student Permissions), but taking the extra step to set open access on your syllabus folder makes sharing those files outside Bb easy.

Steps for Sharing Files or Folders in Bb

Follow the links in the list below or click through the embedded image to see the visual steps.

1. Open the course shell and under Control Panel/ Content Collection, select the course ID.
   
2. Navigate to the folder or files you want to share outside the course and Blackboard and click on the action link beside the folder or individual files. Select “Permissions”
3. Choose "Permit Anyone”
4. Select item and add to window. Select “read” permission and Submit.
5. Right click filename and select "Copy Link Address"
6. Link appropriate files in email messages to your students or the department's administrative support team

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