It took longer than we wanted, but the ability to customize the Course List module is back to working correctly again. If your unfamiliar with the feature, the Course List module provides a very nice option to edit which courses are actually displayed to you, so that if you’ve been added to courses that you aren’t actually using, those courses won’t clutter up your Courses Tab.
The Upgrade to 7.2 introduced two rather devious bugs into the edit page of the Course List module. If you clicked the pencil icon to
edit the display, Blackboard would paginate your list of possible courses into pages of 25. The first bug prevented you from advancing
off the first page of 25. If you clicked the Next button, you would get an unhelpful error message.
Even worse, if you clicked submit, then all courses after the first 25 (those on pages 2+) would be marked by Blackboard to NOT display, so that they would no longer display in the module. This coupled with the inability to edit pages 2+ meant that you were effectively locked
out of your courses. Yikes!
We received a fix from Blackboard so the display is now editable. Here’s how:
Go to your Courses Tab
Click the Pencil icon next in the Course List module
Check the boxin the display column for courses you want to see, uncheck the box for those you don’t
Scroll down and click 
You should now have a Course List customized to your individual needs.
A very nice bonus to come of this problem, in searching for a solution, we came across a brand new courses module developed by
Seneca college, which is very slick and has a couple of really nice shortcut features. We’ll be releasing this as an alternative to the Course List module in a few days so you can use whichever one you prefer.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I wondered what happened to my “pencil edit” button.
The new, ’slick’ course module from Seneca college looks promising as well, but I’ll probably stick to the default course list. Just my personal preference tho’ I may try it for awhile…
May 20th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Thank you for patching that up. I would think that with so many USF students & faculty using BlackBoard that USF should have direct access to the systems designers. The loss of the edit function after the May ‘07 upgrade was inconvenient, but very minor compared to the loss of the “read” function on the discussion board after the December 06. This happened after the upgrade last December and still has not been repaired.
Also, when one tries to read the “parent” post the name of the poster is gone.