{"id":10880,"date":"2017-08-07T19:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=10880"},"modified":"2017-08-07T19:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T00:30:32","slug":"bb-tip-183-beginning-of-semester-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-183-beginning-of-semester-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bb Tip #183: Beginning of Semester Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\"><a title=\"checklist\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.automotive-fleet.com\/fc_images\/articles\/m-checklist-pic.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.automotive-fleet.com\/fc_images\/articles\/m-checklist-pic.jpg?resize=312%2C208\" alt=\"checklist\" width=\"312\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>As you prepare for the start of the semester, it is a good time to get started setting up your Blackboard courses. Blackboard courses are automatically created using the course information in Banner a few weeks before the start of the semester. You can post your syllabus, course documents, and announcements to your Blackboard courses. You can also customize your course menu and\/or add a course banner.<\/p>\n<p>If you teach a course that is cross listed you will have a Blackboard course for each cross listing. You can combine the cross listed courses into one Blackboard course so that you can post course materials and grades to one combined Blackboard course. Combining courses may also work for you if you are teaching different sections of the same course and would like to have the different sections combined into one Blackboard course so that you can post course documents and grades in the one combined course. The beginning of the semester is the best time to combine your Blackboard courses before you add course material or grades to the courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE: Currently, the section merge tool is no longer available.<\/strong> A system administrator will have to merge your courses. Send an email to Yamlak Tsega (<a href=\"mailto:ytsega@xula.edu\">ytsega@xula.edu<\/a>) if you want to merge courses. You should include the course ID (including CRN) for all the courses you want merged together. The course merge process requires that a brand new empty Blackboard course be created that will serve as the primary course for all the merged sections.  If you have any course content that needs to be retained in one of the courses to be merged, it will have to be exported and then imported into the newly created combined course.  Please include that information with your request to merge courses.<\/p>\n<h3>Follow these steps to do it.<\/h3>\n<p>Listed below are links with instructions for<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"hide old courses\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-141-hide-old-courses-from-view\/\">Hiding old courses from view<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"course environment pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/library.blackboard.com\/d\/?5ba5f8c8-0840-46cd-9eb2-d48d1c00c401\">Getting started with the course environment (PDF)<\/a> [<a title=\"course environment video\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/r91\/movies\/bb91_your_course_environment.htm\">watch video<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"course structures and themes\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-67-course-structures-and-course-themes\/\">Course structures and course themes<\/a> [<a title=\"course themes video\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/r91\/movies\/bb91_tools_2012_theme.htm\">watch video<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"change course name\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-142-change-the-name-of-your-course\/\">Changing the display name for your course<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"course banner\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-139-course-banners\/\">Adding a course banner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"course menu\" href=\"http:\/\/help.sset.jhu.edu\/download\/attachments\/10485887\/Add_Items_to_Course_Menu.pdf?version=1&amp;modificationDate=1277928387297\">Adding items to the course menu (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"student preview\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-163-student-preview\/\">Using student preview mode<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"announcements\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-162-announcements\/\">Posting announcements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"copy course content\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-176-course-copy\/\">Copying content into another course<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"merging courses\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-175-merging-courses\/\">Merging courses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"date management\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-125-date-management\/\">Using date management to update dates after course copy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Want more information?<\/h3>\n<p>Attend a <a title=\"Bb drop-in\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\/\">drop-in session<\/a> to get one-on-one help.<br \/>\nExplore Blackboard\u2019s <a title=\"On Demand\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/\">On Demand Learning Center<\/a>.<br \/>\nTry these <a title=\"Bb How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-documents\/\">Blackboard How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit the <a title=\"Bb FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-faq\/\">Blackboard FAQs<\/a> for additional blackboard information<br \/>\nor <a title=\"Schedule 1-on-1\" href=\"http:\/\/jflorent.youcanbook.me\/\">schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, <a title=\"Send email\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a>, or<br \/>\ncall Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you prepare for the start of the semester, it is a good time to get started setting up your Blackboard courses. Blackboard courses are automatically created using the course information in Banner a few weeks before the start of the semester. 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