Category:Blackboard - Faculty: Difference between revisions

• Use this link to contact the IT Help Desk
• Consult the Faculty Bb Bulletin for help setting up, saving and closing course shells; standard practices

Standard Practices

The Basics!

Standard practices are the conventions followed by faculty and the Blackboard support staff in order to guarantee that the semester gets off to a smooth start. Adhering standard practices guarantee a common experience: students are added to the courses on the same day. It also helps guarantee clear, commonly understood communication between instructors and Teaching with Technology staff.

1. Students are added to course shells two days prior to the start of the semester.
2. Instructors can communicate with students before they are added to shells
3. Instructors are responsible for activating their course shells; students will not be able to participate in, or even see, course shells until they're activated. The exception are courses taught completely online.
4. Course shells are identified by the year/semester - department and course number - course section Example:
   201840-hist1010-80 Semester designations: Spring: 10 - Summer: 25 - Fall: 40 - Winter: 50
5. The version of Blackboard we use is called Learn In Blackboard Corp. documentation look for Learn and ignore references to Ultra except in relation to Blackboard Collaborate.

Copy course content -- Transfer course content within and between semesters

Support:
PDF document -- Youtube video

Notes:

1. Starting July 1, 2018 faculty are responsible for managing all their intellectual property between and within semesters.
2. To copy a course the instructor must be the instructor of record on both the origin and destination course. Professor Green cannot copy course material into a course in which Professor Blue is listed as the instructor.
3. If two faculty agree to share content within or between semesters we need to see consent from both parties.

Create Merged or Master course shells

for cross-listed or multi-section courses

Activate course shells for student use

Email students before the start of the semester

View Student Roster

Beginning of the semester

Course Building

Bb Accessibility: Ally

Improve File Accessibility:

Collaboration

General

Discussions

Collaborate Web Conferencing

Assessments

Grade Center

Course Reports & Retention Center

Blackboard Instructor mobile app for Faculty

End of the Semester

Bb 101 - Campus Closure

Block saved for Collaborate vidoes - coming Tuesday morning, 03/19

• In the case of a school closure, instructional technologists will be available seven days a week.


• The best way to contact support personnel is to use the Help Desk: http://help.wpunj.edu


• The school only has three instructional technologists so response time may not be immediate. Please be patient, we are happy to help everybody and we will get to you!