Helpful Trick for Locating Content in Your Courses

One way to easily look through your course content items is to use a feature to display the items in a file browser window reminiscent of the operating system your computer is running (MacOS or Windows). Blackboard has made this very simple to do by clicking the folder icon at the top of Course Menu.

To open your courses content in a separate window, first enter the course.


Once there, you will see a small folder icon in the top-right of the Course Menu.


Click on this folder icon to open the courses content items in a separate window.

With this window open there are a couple of different ways to navigate through these items, one is the normal way to expand the folders that need to be expanded and manually check through every file to find the one that you need.


Another is to use the built in "Find" function for the operating system that your computer is using. ("Ctrl+F" for Windows, "Cmd+F" for MacOS)

To use this function, fully expand the folders in the window by clicking the "+" button in the top-right.


Once the folders are all expanded, use your operating systems Find function to search for the item you are looking for typing the name of the item in the search bar. (NOTE: In order to find the item you are looking for, be sure to search by the name of the item. The search function works for the title/name of the item only. It does not search the actual text of the item.)