As we learned in this chapter, creating courses in our Blackboard Learn instance can require a lot of planning and configuring. As administrators, we need to create a standard naming convention for our courses to help us find and access them easily. Then courses require us to create default settings that dictate what tools are available and how the course appears to the student user. Once we are ready to make a course, we have several ways to do so. We also have the ability to move contents and settings from one course to another within Blackboard Learn or bring content from another Blackboard instance or other LMS using the common cartridge format.
While we reviewed many course items in this chapter, we have only scratched the surface. Our next chapter really starts to dive into the administration of courses within our Blackboard Learn environment. These topics cover how to enroll users, making courses accessible to students, along with archiving and removing courses. So let's continue...