{"id":4980,"date":"2014-12-15T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2022-06-14T01:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T06:19:41","slug":"bb-tip-116-beginning-of-semester-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-116-beginning-of-semester-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bb Tip #116: Beginning of Semester Tasks"},"content":{"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. 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<h3>Follow these steps to do it.<\/h3>\n<p>Listed below are links with instructions for <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Merging courses [<a title=\"merge courses\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-43-merging-courses\/\">Web page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Hiding old courses from view [<a title=\"hide old courses\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-36-hide-old-courses-from-view\/\">Web page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Getting started with the course environment [<a title=\"course environment pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/library.blackboard.com\/d\/?5ba5f8c8-0840-46cd-9eb2-d48d1c00c401\">PDF<\/a>] [<a title=\"course environment video\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/r91\/movies\/bb91_your_course_environment.htm\">Video<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Course structures and course themes [<a title=\"course structures and themes\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-67-course-structures-and-course-themes\/\">Web page<\/a>] [<a title=\"course themes video\" href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/r91\/movies\/bb91_tools_2012_theme.htm\">Video<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Changing the display name for your course [<a title=\"change course name\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-75-change-the-name-of-your-course\/\">Web page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Adding a course banner [<a title=\"course banner\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-45-add-a-course-banner\/\">Web page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Adding items to the course menu [<a title=\"course menu\" href=\"http:\/\/help.sset.jhu.edu\/download\/attachments\/10485887\/Add_Items_to_Course_Menu.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1277928387297\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Adding a test student to your course [<a title=\"course menu\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-56-add-test-student-in-courses\/\">Web page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Posting announcements [<a title=\"announcements\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-39-announcements\/\">Web page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Copying content into another course [<a title=\"copy course content\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-42-copy-content-into-another-course\/\">Web page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Using date management to update dates after course copy [<a title=\"date management\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-80-date-management\/\">Web page<\/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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackboard How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit the <a title=\"Bb FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/blackboard-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 \/>call 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. You can post your syllabus, course documents, and announcements to your Blackboard courses. <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-116-beginning-of-semester-tasks\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Bb Tip #116: Beginning of Semester Tasks\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blackboard","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-1ik","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1173,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-52-beginning-of-semester-tasks\/","url_meta":{"origin":4980,"position":0},"title":"Bb Tip #52: Beginning of Semester Tasks","author":"Janice Florent","date":"December 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The beginning of the semester is a good time to get started using Blackboard. 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