Subject: Fwd: Blackboard News, Spring 2012
From: "Erin Guild" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:05:52 -0500

additional information re: Blackboard....

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Subject: 	Blackboard News, Spring 2012
Date: 	Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:39:45 -0500
From: 	UIS & CNDLS <[email-masked]>
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Dear Faculty,

This message has news about the Blackboard course management system for 
the Spring 2012 term. If you plan on using Blackboard this Spring, 
please review the information below.

*1. Spring** course sites*

All Main Campus Spring 2012 courses, including non-credit courses, have 
a site in Blackboard (http://campus.georgetown.edu 
<http://campus.georgetown.edu/>). If you log in to Blackboard and do not 
see your Fall courses listed, please verify that you are the course 
instructor in MyAccess (http://myaccess.georgetown.edu/) or contact the 
University Registrar at [email-masked] 
<mailto:[email-masked]>.

*Please remember to make your course sites /available to students/! *

In order to allow faculty to develop course content without having this 
content visible to students, Blackboard course sites are /unavailable to 
students/ by default. (The word "Unavailable" is displayed next to the 
course name in the Blackboard course list.) If you would like your 
students to have access to a Blackboard course, you must make the course 
available to them. Because the content is fully visible to you, this 
step is easily overlooked. However, students do not see the course until 
it is made available.

For help with making a Blackboard course site available, see 
https://wiki.uis.georgetown.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=14681437

*2. Combining course sections*

Blackboard allows faculty who teach multiple sections of the same course 
to combine those sections into a single, separate Blackboard course 
site. For all Spring 2012 course combinations--including combinations of 
select sections and of cross-listed courses--please submit a Blackboard 
Faculty Help Request Form 
<https://www8.georgetown.edu/centers/cndls/helprequests/blackboard_help.cfm>, 
indicating the course sections for which you wish to have enrollments 
combined. For more information, please see: 
https://wiki.uis.georgetown.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=14681440

*3. Prior course sites become unavailable
*

Fall 2011 and older course sites become unavailable to students on 
*Friday, January 13*. If you need an older course site to remain 
available to students, you may change the course availability after 
January 13.

*4. Copying course content*

Instructors can copy course content from any course they have taught 
previously to a course they teach currently. Please see 
https://wiki.uis.georgetown.edu/display/BBSUPPORT/Copy+Courses for 
information and instructions on copying course content.

*5. Emailing students*

Instructors can easily email students from Blackboard even if they do 
not otherwise use Blackboard. For more information, see 
https://wiki.uis.georgetown.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=14682300

*6. Blackboard workshops*

The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship and University 
Information Services are offering a series of workshops and webinars on 
Blackboard for faculty. Topics include getting started with Blackboard, 
building a course, collaborative tools, grades, and new features. For 
information and registration, please go to 
https://www4.georgetown.edu/training/classes/.

*7. Blackboard support
*

Georgetown's Blackboard support site 
<https://wiki.uis.georgetown.edu/display/BBSUPPORT/Home> includes visual 
tutorials, FAQs, and information on how to contact Georgetown's 
Blackboard support staff.

Best wishes for the Spring.

Peter Janssens, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Instructional Resources
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

Peter Farkas
Manager, Scholarly Systems Group
University Information Systems

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