Week's End Report - May 15, 2015

Tip of the Week!

Before the semester begins, many faculty report that their courses are “not loaded.” There are two different types of course “loading” - instructor loading and course content loading - what you should do next depends on which type of loading needs to be done.

• I log in to Blackboard and my summer course does not appear- your school has not loaded you into your course in Banner. In order to remedy this you will need to speak with your school. Please be aware that there is up to 36 hours delay after your school loads you in Banner before your course will appear in Blackboard. Unfortunately there is no work-around or shortcut for this delay.
• I log in to Blackboard and my course appears but the course is empty- your course has not been loaded with content. This may be because your course is a new section and was not open when that course was loaded. Your course may also have no content because it’s a course that is waiting for content to be approved before it is loaded. Please let us know if your content is not loaded and we can give you an estimate of when the course will be ready.

Self-Enroll Module Access Reminder

Self-Enroll Module access will be removed today, Friday, May 15th. In order to get access to the module for summer, please speak with your program chairs or deans about requesting access.

For more information about the Self-Enroll Module, click here: http://bit.ly/selfenrollinfo

Course Merge Requests

Please be sure to submit your course merge requests soon! Once the courses become available to students (24 hours before the courses begin) they are no longer eligible to be merged.

Course merge requests can be submitted here: http://bit.ly/mergerequest

Please make sure you thoroughly review the Course Merge FAQs document prior to filling out a merge request!

Blackboard Upgrade/Notification

• Effective Saturday, May 16th, Blackboard will contain only courses that are two years old or newer. This means that courses from Summer 2011 (201110) through Spring 2013 (201230) will no longer be available on Blackboard.
• Prior to this switch, please make sure you archive, export, copy or download any materials you need from courses from these semesters.

For more information about archiving and exporting, see the website: http://bit.ly/idcbbexportarchive