myUSF Blackboard News

Thanks to a joint effort between Seneca College and USF Academic Computing, we’re pleased to release an interesting alternative to the standard Blackboard Course List module. My Course Plus provides a new way to organize the display of your courses, and shortcuts into your most frequently accessed course tools.

First of all, courses are grouped by semester. As detailed in this article on MyUSF Course ID’s, each folder is identified by it’s 3 character semester and year designator. Clicking the plus or minus will expand or collapse the list of courses for that semester.

Quick Tools

Each course has an icon to the left, which when clicked, will expose a couple of additional links. Clicking these links will take you directly to certain areas of your course. Shortcuts are available to take you directly to your Discussion Board, Gradebook, Announcements, or the Control Panel.

Click the button to expose quick access tools

Quickly go into your Discussion Board, Gradebook, Announcements, or Control Panel

Students also have access to My Course Plus. The view is a little different, do to the lack of privileged functions available to students.

Everyone is welcome to add the module to any of the MyUSF tabs that allow modules. Personally, I recommend adding it to the Courses tab, and modifying the page layout so My Course Plus is in the top right position.

Have fun and post comments on this tool below.