Re: [BB] Set up your Course Site

Actually, we CAN do an augment of a course site that was already merged or vice-versa. Check with Alex.

I think the restriction is that we cannot augment the same course into two different master sites. So if Accounting has already set up an augment to put all of their sites into a master site, and then SBA wants to put everything in SBA in a master site, it won't work. At least I think that was a real restriction. But we just did both an augment and merge of the same courses for Dr. Ram in Engineering.

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Bill Vilberg

8-3944 or 786-250-2255

On Friday, August 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Ramos, Ricardo wrote:

Hello Bb Users,

 

With the beginning of every semester, you might like to have your course to be setup in a specific way. Below are services we offer for your courses, please take a look at them and let us know if you are interested in any of them:

1.      Course Merge

If you teach multiple sections of a course, it may be easier to combine them into one Blackboard course site, rather than have a separate site for each section. With the merged site, you can post your course material once rather than posting it in every section's site separately. To have us create a merged site, request a "course merge".

Note: Access to the original courses site will be lost so make sure to let us know if there is any material you would like to copy over to the newly created merged site. User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied.

2.      Course Augment

There is also the option to do a "course augment" which will maintain all of your original course sites and add one additional master site with all of the students from your various sections. With the "course augment" option you can use the master site to post course material in one location, and reserve the individual course sites for assignments or tests specific to each course section.

 Note: We cannot do an augment of a course site that was already merged or vice-versa.

3.     Course Copy

  If you have material from a prior semester that you would like to copy to the new semester, you can call us to do a course copy for you or you can follow the steps at the link below to do it yourself:

http://goo.gl/uq1qU

Note: You need to be enrolled as an instructor in both courses sites in order to perform a Course Copy. User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied.

4.      Teaching Assistant enrollment

Teaching assistants are not added automatically to your class. They have to be entered manually. You can have us do it for you or you can do it yourself using the instructions at the following link:

http://goo.gl/ON85r

Please feel free to contact us for any issues you might have. Our business hours are from Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm and our phone number is 305-284-3949 or you can email us at blackboardhelp@miami.edu

 

Rick Ramos

Department of Information Technology

Blackboard Help Desk Supervisor

305-284-3949