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The ‘Student Preview’ feature within Blackboard is a useful tool to use as a lecturer. You can check that your course is ready for your students to access, whenever you make changes to your module content. Student Preview allows you to be certain that your course design meets expectations. The mode permits you to review whether the features you have created are accessible, easy to navigate and well thought out.
When is student preview most useful?
A range of Blackboard actions and functions can be viewed and used, when in Student Preview mode. Please see some examples below:
- Ensuring that ‘hidden’ or ‘release by date’ menu links, files or folders have been deployed appropriately.
- To take a Blackboard test or survey you have created.
- Submitting assignments.
- To check all links work for students.
How does Student Preview work?
By clicking on the eye-like icon, towards the top right-hand corner of your module, you can enter Student Preview mode. A bar will appear across the top of your page, to signal that ‘Student Preview mode is ON’.
You will have a student preview user account created, which you can temporarily use to interact with your module. It is important that when you have completed viewing your module as a student, that you exit this mode. We recommend the option to ‘Delete the preview user and all data’. Please see further instructions in the following link:
https://lttu.uk/support/Blackboard/UltraManual/student-preview
If you are interested in learning more about the Student Preview mode, please see a link below to the Blackboard help pages:
