Common Issues: Only the 'Announcements' Page Appears

If you go into your course and only the 'Announcements' page appears, you have one of the following issues:

1) You are accessing your Announcements page and not actually the course.

2) You accidentally hid your course menu.

Please follow the steps below to fix the issue:

When you first log into Blackboard, you arrive at your 'My Blackboard' page.
To access your course, click on the course name, under 'My Courses' on the right.
If you click on any of the Announcements found in the 'Announcements' or ' My Courses' modules...

...you would go to that course's Announcements page, and not into the course.

If that did not fix the issue, follow the steps below (option #2).

When moving your mouse between the content area and the course menu...
...you may have a gray line appear.
If you were to click on that gray line, your course menu would hide from yourself.
To expand it and reappear again, you must move your mouse back over to the far, left side of the window - where the menu should be.
A gray line should appear on the left side of your content area.
Click on that gray line to expand your menu items again.