Dear Blackboard Users,
With the beginning of summer term, you might like to have your Blackboard course sites setup in a specific way. Below are services we offer for your course sites. Let us know if we can do any of these, or anything else to assist you at the start of the semester. Send email to blackboardhelp@miami.edu or call 305-284-3949 to make a request or get assistance.
1. Course Merge
If you teach multiple sections of a course, or have both graduate and undergraduate students in the same 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 each section’s site separately.
Note: This should be done before any activity takes place in the course sites. Please be aware User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied to the new site.
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 section course sites for assignments or tests specific to each course section.
3. Course Copy
If you have material from a prior semester that you would like to copy into the course site you are setting up, 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:
Course Copy instructions
Note: You need to be enrolled as an instructor in both the source and destination courses sites in order to perform a Course Copy. User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied. Do NOT copy course enrollments.
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:
Enroll Users to Blackboard instructions
5. Course Availability
When created, course sites are unavailable to students. We can make them available for you or you can follow these easy steps to do it yourself:
Use Qwickly to make course available
Please feel free to contact us for any issues you might have. Our business hours are 7 days a week from 9 am to 9 pm and our phone number is 305-284-3949 or you can email us at blackboardhelp@miami.edu
Your Blackboard team
(P): 305-284-3949
