FACULTY: How do I view my Blackboard course as a student?

Find out how to view and experience your Blackboard Ultra course as a student would.

Want to see your course from a student's perspective? The student preview allows you to double check that tests and assignment submission pages, discussions, and other activities function and look correct from the students' perspectives. You can ensure any item settings behave the way they should, such as conditional release of content and how student grades appear to them. You can also take your own exams and submit assignments as if you were a student.

To enter the Student Preview mode:

1. Open your Blackboard course.
2. Click "Student Preview" in the upper right corner.
   
3. Click "Start Preview."
   
4. To leave the student preview, click "Exit" in the upper right corner at any time.
5. Select "Discard" or "Save" the student preview user.
   1. The Discard option removes the preview user and data that is made whenever you do any actions in the student preview. Remember to discard this so that your student preview data is not included in analytics or course reports.
   2. If you keep your preview user and activity, your preview user appears in the roster, gradebook, and any place you interacted.
   3. You can remove the preview user later from the roster. After removal, some course activity remains. Your preview user's name in discussion posts and conversations is changed to Anonymous, but the messages remain in the course. You can delete all this activity.

For more information about student preview, view this Blackboard article.