Hello BB Users,
Happy new year to all! It is time to start our weekly tips.
We are also about to start a new semester and it is time to think about how we are going to organize our courses in Blackboard.
Some of you may be familiar with the processes below but for those who aren’t I hope this will help you with your courses.
You can request the following services by clicking on the “Support” tab at the top of any Blackboard page (once you have logged in).
Then click the “Common service request forms” link or click on the help icon at the top of your Blackboard page, and create a help desk ticket.
1. Course Merge
If you teach multiple sections it may be easier to combine them into one. With the “course merge” option you can post your course material once rather than posting it for every section separately. Access to the original courses 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 course.
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.
3. Student Account
Instructors do not have the same view of a course as students. We can create a “student account” for you. You can add your student identity as a student in any of the courses you teach (now and in the future) to test what your students see when they view your course site.
4. Teacher assistant enrollment
Don’t forget to request to add your teaching assistant to your course – or you can do it yourself as follow:
How to enroll Student/TA/Instructor to your course
1. Go to the control panel
2. Click on “Add Users by Role”
3. Select the role
4. Enter the username if you know it
5. Or browse to locate it
6. You will be given several options to locate the person to enroll.
7. Once you have located the person to enroll, check his/her name and click on submit
8. Click on submit again to enroll
As always, if you have any issues or questions, you may call the Blackboard Help Desk at 305-284-3949 or send an email to blackboardhelp@miami.edu.
Thank you,
Rick Ramos
Blackboard Help Desk Supervisor
305-284-3949
