Week's End Report - Aug. 5th

Tip of the Week!

Are you teaching a Math or English co-req section, a clinical, or a two-way video course? Ask your program chair to submit a course merge request so your sections can be merged in Blackboard!

What is the benefit of merging your courses?

• You can post course materials one time and they're available for all students in all involved sections
• Students will be able to interact within the same Blackboard course
• More accurate statistics can be collected because students remain officially enrolled in the appropriate course sections in Banner

Course merges are permanent and cannot be undone, so before making a course merge request please verify the following:

• Your course meets the qualifications for merging (co-reqs, clinicals, and two-way video courses may be merged, no other courses may be merged and convenience merges are prohibited at this time)
• You are certain you want the courses merged, once they have been merged they cannot be separated
• Make sure parent courses will not be cancelled (any section that may be cancelled should only be merged as a child section, if a parent section is cancelled any child sections will not be accessible)

To learn more about course merges, visit the Course Merge FAQs document: http://bit.ly/coursemerge 
To request a course merge, use the Course Merge Request form: http://bit.ly/mergerequest

Please be sure to visit the IDC website for more information!

http://bit.ly/idcwebsite 

Don't forget to check out the Getting Started website while setting up your courses for the fall!

http://bit.ly/idcgettingstarted  

 

Systems Information

Blackboard will be down for maintenance Friday, August 5th from 2 am - 6 am. Blackboard will be unavailable at that time. 

Wireless internet will be unavailable from 10 pm - midnight on Saturday, August 13th.