Blackboard Information
Welcome to Blackboard at Southeastern!
Blackboard is a program that allows instructors to create, deliver, and manage web-based components for courses. It can be used to add online elements to a traditional course, or to develop completely online courses with few or no face-to-face meetings.
To use Blackboard, your computer should have the necessary combination of Operating System and Browser versions for the Blackboard 9 environment.
Blackboard is located from the Bb logo on http://www.selu.edu
or the following direct URL
http://blackboard9.selu.edu
Logging In:
Students and Faculty should login to Blackboard using their wnumber and password. The password is authenticated with the email and LEO password. Changes to passwords should be made through the Account Information and Password Change for Email and LEONet (PeopleSoft). The Operations Department in McClimans Hall should be contacted if there is difficulty with your password.
Course Generation
Blackboard courses will be generated automatically using the Registrar's data. The Blackboard ids for Spring 2010 start with the prefix "2103".
If you do not see your course listed in your Blackboard account, it means that the Registrar's data is incomplete in LEONet. Your department office adds this data into LEONet.
The Blackboard Administrator will run batch updates to Blackboard between 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Monday - Friday beginning a few weeks before semester starts.
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NOTICE:
With the elimination of late registration, students must be more careful in making course selection decisions. To aid in these decisions, faculty are asked to utilize Blackboard to make basic course information available as early as possible—preferably prior to the beginning of the semester. This request will allow students, whether enrolled in your class or not, the ability to view your course syllabus.
In addition, a syllabus validation tool has been placed in the Course Information area of each Blackboard course. Faculty should ask students to review the syllabus first and ask questions before attempting to complete the syllabus validation. The tool contains one statement, “Please validate that you have read and understood the course policies and procedures as outlined in the course syllabus.”
QUICK STEPS: adding your syllabus into Course Information
- In Edit Mode, on the Course Menu, click the Course Information Area.
- On the Course Information’s Action Bar, click Create Item.
- On the Add Item page, for Name, type Syllabus.
- Enter text or other content in the Text box. Use the Text Editor to format it, if desired. The information appears below the item’s Name.
- Optionally, browse for a file to attach either from your hard drive or USB flash drive.
- Select the Options for availability, viewing tracking, and Date and Time Restrictions.
- Click Submit.
Moving course materials from Bb 7 to Bb 9
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If your course is < 50% online, it is recommended that you upload your syllabus and course materials to Bb 9. Exceptions may exist.
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If your course is > 50% online, you may prefer to export course materials from your Bb 7 course and to import them in to your Bb 9 course. If your course needs major revision, please consider re-creating courses in Bb 9 rather than using the export/import method.
Note: You can export course materials from a Bb 7 course to a Bb 9 course yourself, you can attend a walk-in clinic or you can request a consultation with a CFE coordinator for assistance.
Quick Tip Sheet on How to Export and Import your materials from Bb 7 to Bb 9
You will find excellent tutorials in the Blackboard Support for Faculty site in Bb 9. All faculty have been enrolled into the support site as a student. You will see the support site listed in "My Courses" when you login to Bb 9.
EVENT: Walk-in clinics for Bb 9
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Faculty wanting assistance moving course materials from Bb 7 to Bb 9.
DATE: November 9-12, 2009
TIME: anytime between 8am and 4pm
LOCATION: Tinsley Hall, room 103
Technology Coordinators from the Center for Faculty Excellence will be available to assist you with exporting course materials from Bb 7 and importing them in to Bb 9.
NOTE: These clinics are NOT Blackboard 9 training. The Center for Faculty Excellence will resume training in January 2010.
Additional Information
Additional Information
Copying Course Content
Each semester an empty, Blackboard course shell will be created for each course you are teaching. If you want to reuse materials from previous semesters, you can export/import the content from your old course site into your empty course shell for the new semester. The export/import feature allow you to copy the entire, or selected, contents of one course directly into sanother. The Center offers hands-on workshops on how to use the course copy function of Blackboard (Visit the Center's calendar).
Combining Sections
Sections that are officially combined in the Registrar's records will have a Blackboard course shell that contains all of the students from the combined sections. In addition, separate Blackboard shells are generated for each individual section.
For instance, English 448/548 section 01 will have 3 course shells generated:
1) combined shell - English 448/548 section 01
2) separate shell - English 448 section 01
3) separate shell - English 548 section 01
Faculty have the flexibility of choosing to use one or all of the shells they want to develop and set available to students. If one of the two sections for the officially combined sections is canceled, the combination site will be disabled during the batch processes. If you feel it is possible for one of your sections to be canceled, we advise you to use the two separate sites until the batch processes are over.
Special action will be taken for course sections that are not officially combined in the Registrar's records but faculty want to have combined into one Blackboard course shell. For instance, if you want sections 90NT and 91NT combined. Contact the Blackboard Administrator and submit the course name, section numbers and the computer numbers.