Course Image and Banner


A course image and/or banner can make your course visually unique and easier to find in the full course list. 


Viewing the Course Image

Course images are shown when viewing your course list in grid view. The image appears at the top of each course tile, about the course ID and name. 

Newly-created courses will be randomly assigned a default course image by the Blackboard system. 


Course list displayed in grid view with course images visible

Editing the Course Image


  • The minimum recommended size for the banner image is: 1200 x 240 pixels.
  • Note that images with text don't scale well.
  • An abstract image or one with a focus at the center would work better for a banner, due to cropping variability.
  • While visual components of courses are helpful for aesthetic and identification purposes, it is important to adhere to accessibility best practices and standards.  If the image is primary content, be sure to include an image description for screen readers.  Otherwise, mark the image as decorative.



Accessing edit settings from outside of course

Hover over the image on your course then click on the three dot menu to show the dropdown list. Then click edit course image. The display settings for the image will open. 

Accessing edit settings from inside of course

Under Details and Actions, click "edit display settings".


Editing the Course Image

The display settings tab has the settings for the course image. Click on the icon to open the insert image pop up. 

Once the pop up is open, files for images can be dragged and dropped into the space or a file can be uploaded by searching for the image. 

After image is inserted, the image will appear and the "next" at the bottom will turn black. Press next. 

After "next" is clicked, there will be options to zoom in and out with the purple slider, reposition the image with arrows or by dragging. Then press save at the bottom of the panel. 

Once saved, the display settings panel will appear again. By default the image is marked as decorative and use as course banner is "on". Uncheck the checkbox to mark the image as not decorative and add alternative text, if no alternative text is added then it will be automatically marked as decorative once the panel is closed. Press Save.


Adding Course Banner

By default the course banner is toggled "on", if a course banner is not desirable then toggle to "off" and then press save at the bottom of the panel.

There is no way to have a course without adding a course image and using that image for the banner. There are no other ways to have a course banner.


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