Adding a Syllabus to Blackboard

Adding A Syllabus to Your Blackboard Ultra Course

A specific process for uploading a syllabus into Blackboard has been implemented by the Office of the Provost to help ensure compliance with SACS accreditation processes.

Create your syllabus with the approved file naming convention:

The syllabus format must be either: .pdf, .doc, .docx, .rtf or .txt
The file name may only contain alpha-numeric characters, dashes (-), and underscores (_). Periods should only be used in front of file extensions (.docx). No other special characters are allowed.
Spaces should not be used.
The naming format must contain exactly three dashes to separate the course prefix, course number, course section and term code.
The file name must contain the word syllabus as a distinct part of the file name as indicated in the format example below:
Department abbreviation – Course Number – Section – Term Code (i.e. 4248 is Fall 2024)
ART-105-01-4248_Syllabus.docx

Upload into Blackboard Ultra

The course ID information is displayed in Blackboard on the upper left corner of the course.

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Every Blackboard course has a course shell created for it based on a template. The template has several pre-created modules that appear initially in each course, the first is “Start Here.” Expand “Start Here” and select the “Syllabus” document.

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This brings up a note to instructors with specific formatting information and the Add Content plus icon. Select the Add Content plus icon.

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4. Select “Upload from Computer” from the menu.

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5. Navigate your computer’s file system for the syllabus and choose Open.

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6. The “Edit File Options” windows appears, select “Save”.

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7. The syllabus now appears in the document. Students use the dropdown arrow to display the syllabus.

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8. Clean up the document by deleting the default directions. Select the 3-dot menu and choose Delete. Blackboard requires that you confirm the deletion by selecting Delete again.

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