GDOC Blackboard: Spring 2004 CoursesUnits: Academic Technology (All Units) Learning Technology
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Subject: GDOC Blackboard: Spring 2004 Courses
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:55:13 -0500
From: Cindy King
Reply-To: gdoc.help@gallaudet.edu
To: gdoc.help@gallaudet.edu
Academic Technology is pleased to announce that faculty may now begin creating their Spring 2004 courses on GDOC Blackboard (http://my.gallaudet.edu). Courses currently in the BISON/Peoplesoft system now have Blackboard course shells--except for a few courses that are combined or cross-listed. For Spring 2004, a single Blackboard course will be created for combined (cross-listed) courses, and all students in the separate courses enrolled into a single course within GDOC Blackboard (e.g., BUS358 & PHI358). Combined course shells will be ready next week. (A course shell is an empty container for each course). As requested by the Graduate School, PST courses that are not online and courses that are taught off-site as Extension courses will not have GDOC Blackboard courses.
When faculty and staff go to http://my.gallaudet.edu, you will find a new required module on the "my.Gallaudet" tab, called "Blackboard FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)". There, you will find instructions for copying content between courses (e.g., Fall to Spring), archiving the course (making a copy on your local computer), downloading/backing up grades, exporting courses, and making courses available (so students have access). Please note that the Blackboard system will keep all courses for Spring 2004 unavailable until the end of December. Thus, if you make your course available one day, it will revert to unavailable each day until the end of December. This is a bug that Blackboard has promised to fix before Spring 2004.
We strongly encourage faculty to download their Blackboard gradebooks on a regular basis (weekly during the semester). This is especially important at the end of the semester. You should have a paper/electronic copy for your records and for handling incompletes after the semester ends.
If you are listed as the instructor for a course via BISON/Peoplesoft (see http://academic.gallaudet.edu/courseschedule, choose "next semester" file), when you go to http://my.gallaudet.edu, you will see that course listed under "My Courses." If your name is not listed on the Course Schedule, please work with your department chair and the Registrar to get the course form completed and your name added as the instructor in Peoplesoft. You can verify that you've been added as an instructor via http://academic.gallaudet.edu/courseschedule. On the day your name appears in the Course Schedule, you will have access to that course at http://my.gallaudet.edu. Once there is an official instructor for a course in Peoplesoft, that instructor can add additional TAs and Co-Instructors (who are not already in the student roster) to their course (via the Control Panel). Academic Technology, however, cannot grant access rights to people who indicate that they are the instructor for a course. You must go through your department and the Registrar's Office (or Graduate School for PST and Extension courses).
Please remember that each academic department has an e-Learning Facilitator, who will be happy to meet with you and assist you in learning how to put course content into Blackboard. If you are unsure of who your e-Learning Facilitator is, see http://learntech.gallaudet.edu/staff. You can also send email to gdoc.help@gallaudet.edu (all messages received by 10 staff) with any questions or problems.
For password-related issues, please use http://passwords.gallaudet.edu. There, you can reset or request changes for your Gallaudet accounts on GDOC, Campus, and Email.
Best wishes for a successful completion of Fall 2003 and preparation for Spring 2004! Cindy King
Created by Cindy King
03/30/2005 08:46 AM
Last updated by Yoel P Krigsman
03/30/2005 08:46 AM
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