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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

  1.  Enter your Blackboard course.
  2. In the Course Management menu on the left, click Customization.
    Click customization
  3. Click Teaching Style.
    click teaching style
  4. Scroll down to Select Banner and click Browse My Computer.
    click browse my computer
  5. Select the file you wish to use and click Open.
    select file and click open
  6. Click Submit.
    click submit

To delete the banner

  1.  In the Course Management menu on the left, click Customization.
    Click customization
  2. Click Teaching Style.
    click teaching style
  3. Scroll down to Select Banner and click the box next to Delete this Banner, then click submit.
    click the box next to delete this banner and click submit

Example of a banner:

example banner for course