Personalizing our Blackboard courses is a way to provide students with a unique online and educational experience. One way to personalize your Blackboard course is to add a picture or image (Banner) to the top of your course homepage or course entry point. Banners are also a useful way to indicate which course you are in which is especially helpful if you teach many courses a semester. Read on to learn how to personalize your course using the banner feature.
Blackboard recommends that the size of banners be 480 X 80 pixels.
Try out our Easy BannerMaker to create your own banner from one of our attractive templates.
Creating a Banner in your Blackboard Course
- Enter your Blackboard course.
- In the Course Management menu on the left, click Customization.
- Click Teaching Style.
- Scroll down to Select Banner and click Browse My Computer.
- Select the file you wish to use and click Open.
- Click Submit.
To delete the banner
- In the Course Management menu on the left, click Customization.
- Click Teaching Style.
- Scroll down to Select Banner and click the box next to Delete this Banner, then click submit.
Example of a banner: