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Need to Request a Course?

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On August 5, 2011

In Information

For faculty choosing to use Blackboard with their academic courses, a new Blackboard course must be requested each semester.  To request a Blackboard course, please follow these few steps.

Go to http://blackboard.richmond.edu and look to the right of the log-in screen. You will see a link to “Faculty Blackboard New Course Request”. Click on that link.

On the next screen, log into Blackboard with your NetID and Password. You will see a slight change on the page which is indicated by the circled area in the image below.

On the next screen, you will notice your name at the top followed by options to request academic, non-academic or removal of courses.

Follow the prompts to request an academic course.  It normally will take 6-12 hours for the system to create and populate your new Blackboard courses.

If you need further assistance, we are having Blackboard training on Aug. 11 at 10:30 and August 23 at 1:30. You can sign-up for these workshops at http://cygnet.richmond.edu/events/fall2011workshops.

Course Entry Point

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On July 20, 2011

In Information, Tips, Warnings

As we start up a new academic year, it might be helpful to revisit a best practice for setting up your course. After you request your course, you might want to copy a previous course into the new course. When a course is copied, the navigation buttons (those on the left side of the screen) are placed at the bottom of those created from the course template. You may not want the buttons created by the course template and want to delete these. STOP! First, you will need to change the course entry point for the course. This is located in the Course Management area under the Control Panel and then Customization.

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Announcement Link Issue

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On April 24, 2011

In Information

We have had several students contact us having problems trying to download content from their courses. Each student is trying to access the content by clicking on the link in the course announcement which should take the student to correct content item. Instead the students are presented with an icon and the name/description of the item but not the link to the item.

The files can be accessed if the students navigate through the course buttons to the correct item. At that point, the students see the file link and are able to download the file.

We are recommending that students use the course buttons to find course content instead of clicking on the links provided through course announcements if the student is not seeing the document file link.

We are in conversation with Blackboard about this issue and we will post an entry when we are able to correct this problem.

System outage Friday at 10 p.m.

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On October 7, 2010

In Warnings

Blackboard will be down for routine maintenance beginning at 10 p.m. Friday, October 8, and ending around 1 a.m. Saturday, October 9. Please plan accordingly. Thank you.

Journals: New in Blackboard 9

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On September 26, 2010

In Information, New Features

Journals allow your students to engage in reflective practice throughout the semester in a private platform that only the instructor and the student can access.

You can create a journal by going to:

  • Control Panel > Course Tools > Journals
  • The Tools menu item > Journals
  • A content area > Add Interactive Tool > Journal

This viewlet from Blackboard’s On-Demand Learning Center will take you through the Journal creation process step-by-step.

During creation, you can also specify whether you’d like students’ journals to be graded. Journals can be indexed monthly or weekly, and instructors can comment on students’ entries. (Note: Formatting of comments is currently unavailable, but a Blackboard representative said this feature would be available in a future version.)

Groups can also have journals. Journals and Blogs are VERY similar in groups, but there are some subtle (and important) differences:

  • In a Group, you can select whether all members of the group can view the journal (essentially, a blog), or members have individual journals (leave “Permit Members to View Journal” unchecked). Blogs are available to all members of the group by default.
  • Blogs have the option of anonymous comments and entries. Journals do not.

Once you’ve named your journal, please be careful not to edit the link; doing so may be associated with a bug.

Another idea: Journals can also be used by students to post short, written homework assignments that are all displayed on one screen.

If you have any questions, please send an email to blackboard@richmond.edu .

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