Dear Blackboard Users,
We are here to assist you with the tasks that are often done when setting up a Blackboard course site. Let us know if we can do any of these, or anything else, to assist you at the start of this semester. Send email to Learningplatforms@miami.edu, call 305-284-3949, or when available fill out the form, to make a request or get assistance. You can also leave a detailed voicemail if we are unable to answer your call and it will open an incident in our tracking system in the order it was received. Don't forget to provide your name, C Number and call back number.
Course Site Availability
When created, course sites are unavailable to students. This way you can set them up before the students access them. Call or email us and we can make them available to your students, or you can follow these easy steps to do it yourself:
Course Site 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. Tell us what sites you want merged and we will take care of it for you.
Note: Courses should be merged before any student activity takes place in the course sites for the various sections. User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts, will not show up in the new, merged, site.
Course Site Augment
We can do a course "augment" rather than a course merge if you would like. An augment maintains all of your original course sites and adds 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. Fill out the form below or call to request a course augment.
Course Site 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 or email us, or fill out the form below, and we will do a course copy for you. You can also follow the steps at the link below to do it yourself:
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.
Teaching Assistant enrollment
Teaching assistants are not added automatically to your class, they have to be entered manually. Email or call us and will be happy to do it for you, or you can do it yourself using the instructions at the following link:
Please feel free to contact us for any request and issues you might have. Our phone number is 305-284-3949 or you can email us at Learningplatforms@miami.edu. Our business hours are 7 days a week from 9 am to 12 am.
Learning Platforms Team
(P): 305-284-3949
