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This tutorial will show you how to use Blackboard’s date management tool to easily change your assignment and test due dates.
This should make updating dates for a new semester much faster.
First you’ll need to make this tool visible by going to Customization in the Control Panel and clicking Tool Availability.
Then scroll down and click the checkbox next to Date Management.
And click Submit.
Now the tool should be available in your Control Panel.
Just click on Course Tools and you should see Date Management in the list.
Blackboard gives you several options of updating.
You can have it automatically update everything based on the course start date, add a certain
number of days to all the dates or list all dates for review.
So we’ll choose that and click Start.
It takes a minute to process through your assignments and tests.
Then click Next.
Now you should see all your assignments and tests listed with the due dates along the right hand side.
So you can select all of them and click Adjust Dates, which will work the same as the previous
screen where you can adjust everything by a certain number of days.
So if you say enter 5 and click Go, you see all the dates have increased by 5 days.
You can also edit each one individually by clicking the pencil tool next to the due date.
And then open up the calendar and choose another date, change the time.
There’s separate hour and minutes slides.
Then click Done.
And then click the green checkmark to submit it.
So we’ll do the same for a test.
Click the calendar tool, change the date, and adjust the time.
Click Done and the green checkmark.
And if you’ve set start and end dates for the availability of your tests or assignments, these can be adjusted just as easily.
You’ll see more columns on the right listing these dates and when you click the pencil tool
you’ll see a calendar icon for each where you can edit the dates and times.
When you're done click the green checkmark as before.
And that’s all you need to know.
This tool should greatly speed up your ability to update the due dates for your course.
Thanks.