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Reusing your Blackboard Course shell
Instead of creating a new Blackboard course each quarter,
its possible to have a single Blackboard course shell for each course
you teach. This will give
you control over when your course is available to students. For
example, you may want your course to be unavailable while you are making
changes between quarters. Additionally, this will keep the Blackboard list of courses you
are teaching to a minimum. After the quarter ends and your students no longer require access to
your Blackboard course, the following options are available for
managing your Blackboard course web site.
Please note that DCB and University College manage
these functions differently than other colleges. If you teach in
one of these colleges, you may want to coordinate timing of Blackboard
course
availability and enrollment with your college's support staff.
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Click on your course Control Panel
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From the Course Options area, click on Course
Settings
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Click on Course Availability and change the
availability option to "No"
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Click Submit
NOTE: when the course is unavailable, faculty can still work on the course but
it no longer appears on the students Blackboard Welcome Page or in the Blackboard course catalog.
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Click on Control Panel
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Select
Online Gradebook
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Click
Export Gradebook
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Click
on the “Go” Button
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Click
on “Get Exported Gradebook”
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Choose
directory where you want to save the file
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After saving the file, you can open it up within Excel
NOTE:
If you use Netscape, clicking on the Get Exported
Gradebook link will display the file as text.
The file can be downloaded by selecting Save Frame As.. from
Netscape's File menu.
IMPORTANT: Print out and download your
gradebook before removing any students from the course. Gradebook
information is lost when a student is deleted from the
course.
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Click the Control Panel button
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From the Course Options section, click on Course Utilities
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Click Archive Course
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Select the Content Areas that you would like to
Archive by clicking into the box next to your selection. This action will
put a check mark in the box next to your selection. We recommend that you
select all Content Areas listed. Once you have chosen the areas to archive,
click the Submit button.
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Blackboard first prepares the material you selected before
it allows you to download. Depending on the size of your course, the time it
takes for this preparation stage will vary. A meter will show on the bottom
right of your screen signaling the progress of this stage. Once completed,
an error log screen will appear listing any errors in transmission. If the
transfer has completed successfully, click the word "here"
under the heading Receipt.
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Clicking "here" starts the download process to
your storage destination (hard drive, zip disk, etc.).
NOTE: Archiving your
course consists of downloading your complete course and saving it to a zip disk,
CD-ROM, or a special folder on your hard drive. Archiving the course will
not delete your course from Blackboard, but we recommend that it be archived
before changes are made from quarter-to-quarter. Once the course has been
successfully archived, you will not be able to view the course
information unless it is imported to Blackboard. Only a Blackboard system
administrator can import archived Blackboard Courses. If your
course is stored on a Zip disk or CD-Rom, you can bring it to the Center
for Teaching and Learning to have the course re-instated on Blackboard.
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Click the Control Panel button
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From the User Management Area, Click on
Remove Users
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Click on List All, and then List All again
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Put a check mark next to the names of each student
you wish to remove and then type in the word "Yes" where indicated at the bottom
of the page (the word Yes must be typed exactly as shown in
Blackboard)
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Click Submit
NOTE: Gradebook information is lost when a
student is deleted from the course. Print out and export your
gradebook to Excel before removing students from the course.
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Click the Control Panel button
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From Course Options area, Click on Course
Settings and select Categorize Course
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Click on the Drop Down menu under Add Category
Locate new Category (Quarter and Department)
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Click the Add button
If you wish, click the Remove button to remove it from previous
category
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Click Submit
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Saving or Printing Discussion Board Threads
- Click the Control Panel button
- From the Course Tools Area, Click on Discussion
Board
- Click within a Forum and Click the Show Options Tab on
the far right corner
- Click the Select All Option or Select Individual
Threads you wish to Save or Print
- Select Collect option
- To Print, Click File, then Print in Your Browser Window
- To Save, highlight and then choose Edit, Copy
- Paste into Word or other software
- Save your file for future reference before removing threads
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Removing student Discussion Board threads only (Reuse
Discussion Forums)
- Click the Control Panel button
- From the Course Tools Area, Click on Discussion
Board
- Click within a Forum and Click the Show Options Tab on
the far right corner
- To quickly remove all threads, click Select All Option
in the menu and then Click the Remove Button
Removing previous Class Discussions Forums
- Click the Control Panel button
- From the Course Tools Area, Click on Discussion
Board
- Click Remove button and then Okay to remove Discussion
Forums.
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Please email blackboard@du.edu
or call the Center for Teaching and Learning at x2084 if you have
questions or need assistance.
Center for Teaching & Learning: Penrose
Library 323,
Telephone: 303.871.2084 · FAX: 303.871.7445 · E-mail: blackboard@du.edu
Copyright © 2001 University of Denver 2199 S.
University Blvd. Denver,
Colorado 80208 Page last revised September 24, 2002.
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