Now that we have reviewed how to search for courses, we need to create a course to search. This requires us to click on the Create Course button and select the New option as shown in the following screenshot:
We arrive at the page shown in the following screenshot. This page asks for a course ID (which we talked about earlier), a course name (this is the name users will see and click on in their My Courses and Course List modules to access the course), and an optional description. We also have the ability to select a subject area and discipline for the course that some long-term Blackboard environments might have customized, but may have been ignored by some organizations. We can also set the term for the course using the drop-down menu.
Courses also have to be made available for users to access them. These settings should mirror our default course settings we learned about earlier, but we can change them here as well. We can go ahead and make the course...