Blackboard has many tools that you can add to your course. On most Blackboard systems, when you create a course, it's home page will have several tools automatically added to it. Which tools are added, depends upon the version of Blackboard you are using and your system's default settings.
Course Tools are not learning or teaching materials. They are gadgets and functions that enable you to keep your students informed, and help you and the students to manage the course:
Notice in the preceding screenshot, that our demonstration course's Homepage has the tools My Announcements, My Calendar, What's New, To Do, Alerts, and Needs Attention. There are other tools that can be added to the course. Also, notice that the user has selected Create Tool Link from the Course Menu. This is how we add new tools to a course.
Using Create Tool Link, you can add a tool to the Course Menu. In the following screenshot, we are adding the link...