Share Your Blackboard Course
Sharing your Blackboard course allows another instructor to access and use your course content while respecting your ownership and permission preferences. This process supports collaboration, and course continuity.
When permission is granted, the receiving instructor will have course content copied into their own Blackboard course. Course sharing can help reduce duplication of effort, support new instructors, and encourage collaboration among colleagues teaching similar courses.
This makes it easier to build on existing work, maintain consistency across course offerings, and share resources in a way that is flexible, respectful, and secure.
If you have questions, please contact CITE at cite@mhc.ab.ca or IT Support at itsupport@mhc.ab.ca
Request a Personal Development Shell
A personal development course provides a private Blackboard space where you can explore ideas, copy existing materials, experiment with course design, and refine content before using it in a live course. You have full flexibility to build, test, and customize content in this environment.
A personal development course is also an excellent way to collaborate with colleagues within Blackboard. It provides a dedicated space to work together across your program, develop and share resources, and co-create content before it is released to students.
Development courses are also an effective way to share course materials with other instructors and support long-term course continuity. By adding colleagues to your development course, they can access and copy content into their own courses as needed. This helps preserve course resources, promotes consistency across sections, and ensures that valuable content can be maintained and passed on to future instructors for years to come.
When your development course is first created, you may request access for additional instructors if you are collaborating. Once the course is set up, you can add and manage additional instructors yourself without assistance from ITS or CITE.
To request a personal development course, please email either CITE at cite@mhc.ab.ca or IT Support at itsupport@mhc.ab.ca
Important Information about Blackboard Sharing and Privacy
As an instructor, you may choose whether to share your Blackboard course materials with another instructor.
If you choose to share, CITE can facilitate the transfer of course content and communicate any permissions or usage expectations you specify.
CITE does not determine ownership of course materials, or enforce permissions after content has been shared. Recipients are expected to respect the permissions and expectations provided by the originating instructor.
Questions regarding intellectual property ownership, licensing, or permitted uses should be directed to the appropriate College office (ipo@mhc.ab.ca).
To proceed with sharing your course content, please complete the Blackboard Request Form.
CITE is unable to add instructors to previous Blackboard courses, as doing so would violate the Protection of Privacy Act (POPA). Providing access to a past course would allow an additional instructor to view student grades and other personal information, which must be protected.
To share course content, please use the Blackboard Request Form so we can transfer material in a way that respects privacy requirements.