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To request a Blackboard site for a course, committee, department, or organization, contact Dr. Bill Yarborough. Course sites can be set up as soon as course schedules with CRNs are available for the semester in which the course is to be taught, or at any point during the course. Committee, department, or organization sites can be set up at any time. Training is available if you are new to Blackboard. By default the maximum size of all materials in a site is 10 MB, but this can be increased if your site requires more space.
Don't forget to make your site available (Control Panel>Course or Organization Options>Settings) when you are ready for others to access it! Otherwise they won't even see it.
Ordinarily students will be automatically enrolled in a Bb course site within one day after the end of registration at the beginning of the semester. If additional students add the course later (or if some drop out) it is usually easiest for you to manually make the changes in Bb using the Control Panel.
Course sites are intended for use for one semester only. If you want to use the same material in a subsequent semester, an exact (or partial) copy can be made (without the previous semester's student data) so that you don't have to re-enter materials. This preserves each semester's sites for later reference. Sites may be archived and removed from view after use if you wish. Sites from previous semesters should generally be made "unavailable" to students.
Note that you can change any of the personal information about yourself in Blackboard except for your user name, since that is your unique identifier within the Blackboard system. Your Blackboard user name is usually the same as your Presbyterian College e-mail login name (e.g, jzsmith). You should change your password from its initial value for greater security using the "Personal Info" option in the Bb Tools.
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