For instructors<\/strong><\/span> who regularly make Blackboard\u00a0<\/em>content available or unavailable to their students, our new version of\u00a0Blackboard<\/em>\u00a0now offers you a faster way in which to do that. If, say, you have an item that you want to make available to your students, simply select the arrow button for that item, and then select\u00a0Make Available\u00a0<\/strong>from the pop-up menu that appears:<\/p>\n Conversely,<\/strong><\/span> if you have an item that you want to make unavailable, select the arrow button, and then select\u00a0Make Unavailable<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Using this method will not\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>override any date range settings you already have set for the item.\u00a0If you set an item to be available or unavailable using the above method, that setting will be overridden\u00a0by your display date settings for the\u00a0item. That is, if you have set a display-after date\/time for an item, and you attempt to make it available,\u00a0Bb\u00a0will indicate that that item will become available on the display-after date\/time that you set for it. Similarly, if you try to make an item available, and the display-until date\/time that you set for the item has passed,\u00a0Bb\u00a0will indicate that the item was last available on the display-until date\/time that you set for it.<\/p>\n Use the following link<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to download a printable version of this Bb tip of the week:\u00a0Download the\u00a0Tip<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Use the following link<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to view previous\u00a0Bb\u00a0tips of the week:\u00a0BBTOTW-Archive<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-8.png\")
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