Courses are created as empty shells in Blackboard. Instructors create content for courses, but some content, such as previous semester course or specific department-approved elements can be copied into a current course.
A Blackboard course can include a department welcome page with graphical elements and links to useful resources as well as other course elements that keep the course branded and stylized to other courses in that department. Not all departments have a welcome page with department elements, and the course instructor has to approve such action in their own course. Course welcome page can be customized in several ways: