CE 6 Now Supports Personal Settings

By default Blackboard CE 6 displays 10 entries per page when using many tools, such as the Mail tool, Discussions tool, and Assignments tool. When the default number of entries is exceeded, students often think new messages are lost or missing (because they're not displayed). In each tool, you can click the Paging Preferences icon (looks like three small dog-eared pages and it’s located in the bottom right corner of the screen) and set the default as high as 999 entries per page. When you edit this setting, it applies only to the list of entries in the current tool. If you or your students want to change the setting globally, follow these steps.

1. From the My Blackboard screen select the My Settings link (upper right corner).
2. When the My Settings page appears, select the My Tool Options tab.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and change the Paging option to the number of entries you want displayed by default. We suggest using 999, the maximum, to minimize the need to “page” through postings and entries.
4. When finished, click the Save button.

On that screen (before clicking Save) you have several other options including the ability to:

• Forward Blackboard mail to an external email address.
• Show all or just unread messages in the Mail and Discussions tools by default.
• Show the oldest or most recent Discussions postings at the top of the screen.
• Start the HTML Creator in each course by default.
• And more….