Blackboard@LeMoyne: Faculty Assistance Center This site is designed to assist faculty learning and using LeMoyne's Blackboard Course Management System. Please explore and use the links below to enhance you experience with Blackboard@LeMoyne!
Blackboard Course Request Forms: The following information and forms are available to assist you in getting a blackboard course site moved, copied, or archived. Please follow the appropriate instructions below for self service, or select the applicable form from the list below to submit your requests to Information Technology Copying materials from a previously taught course into a new Blackboard section Faculty can now copy contents from old courses themselves using the following procedure (note: this process is immediate and requires no intervention from Information Technology): From your original course go to Control Panel: Course Options: Course Copy. Select “Copy Course Materials into an Existing Course”. Enter the current semester's course ID into the box (ie. EDU101-01-F06) and check all of the check boxes of the materials that you want to copy over. Hit "Submit". The material will be copied into the course specified. You will receive a confirmation email when the process is complete (note: it may take up to 5 minutes for the copy process to complete depending on the amount of material being copied) Multi Section Courses: For faculty teaching multiple sections of the same course, it may be beneficial to use a "Common Content" course to store content that is common to all of the sections. An additional section will be created that will contain the class content and the individual sections of the class will point to this common section to access the content (ie. EDU101-01 and EDU101-02 are taught by the same instructor. A common section, EDU101-CONTENT- facutlyname, is created to store content common to both section 01 and 02). Links in sections 01 and 02 point to the corresponding section in the "common" course. Request a "Common Content" Section for use with Multi-section courses taught by the same instructor Other Forms: Request to export a course site [Additional Information]
Blackboard Policies and Procedures Requesting a new Blackboard Course Effective Fall 2005, ALL courses existing on the Datatel system will have a Blackboard component automatically created for it. Course Number, Title and Description (up to 1000 characters) will be copied from information entered by the registrar. Instructors for the class will be added to each section based on the instructor of record in Datatel. If there is a need to have additional instructors in any individual class, please contact Bill Thieke (thiekews@lemoyne.edu) or Joan Blackmon (blackmjr@lemoyne.edu) to have the additional instructors added to the class. Cross Listed Courses Effective Fall Semester 2005, ALL courses that are "cross listed" with one or more sections, ONLY the PRIMARY section (as indicated in Datatel) will be created in Blackboard. Any students enrolled in a secondary section of a cross listed course will be automatically enrolled in the Blackboard primary section (NOTE: students transcripts will still indicate the actual course section they register for. This change is for Blackboard ONLY!). Deleting courses from your Blackboard courses list Effective January 2005, courses will no longer be manually deleted from the Blackboard server by request. Courses are automatically archived and removed one year and one semester after their initial offering. For faculty who wish to remove certain classes from their list of active classes, please click here for directions on hiding your inactive classes.
Upcoming Blackboard Training Courses: Please follow the links below to view Blackboard training seminars for the current semester : TECH 103- Blackboard Refresher Course- Discussion Board changes Not Offered TECH 104- Blackboard Basics for Beginners • Monday 14-Jan 10:00 - 12:00 noon RH 445 • Tuesday 22-Jan 4:30 - 6:30 pm RH 248 • Wednesday 23-Jan 2:30 - 4:30 pm RH 248 TECH 202:- Advanced Blackboard: Using the Virtual Classroom and the Asynchronous Discussion Board, Using Assignments and the Grade book, Creating On-line Assessments and Questions Pools • Section 1a: Using the Grade book, and assignments. Thursday 17-Jan 4:30 - 6:00 pm RH 445 • Section 1b: Using the Grade book, and assignments. Friday 18-Jan 10:30- 12:00 noon RH 439 • Section 1c: Using the Grade book, and assignments. Tuesday 22-Jan 2:30 - 4:00 pm RH 445 • Section 2a: Creating On-line Assessments and Questions Pools Tuesday 15-Jan 10:30- 12:00 noon RH 439 • Section 2b: Creating On-line Assessments and Questions Pools Wednesday 23-Jan 5:00 - 6:30 pm RH 248 • Section 3a: Blackboard Advanced topics: Using the Virtual Classroom and the Asynchronous Discussion Board Friday 18-Jan 1:00- 2:30 pm RH 439 • Section 3b: Blackboard Advanced topics: Using the Virtual Classroom and the Asynchronous Discussion Board Friday 25-Jan 10:30- 12:00 noon RH 439 TECH 300: GroupWise Instant Messenger and Pidgin • Tuesday 15-Jan 1:00- 2:00 pm RH 439 • Thursday 17-Jan 2:30 - 3:30 pm RH 439 • Friday 25-Jan 3:00 - 4:00 pm RH 439 To register for Blackboard Training click here
Blackboard Tips and Hints: The following links are provided to give faculty additional information regarding Blackboard and its use on campus:
"How To" Links Adding students to a course site Removing students from a course site Exporting your Course Gradebook Cleaning up your class at the end of the semester "Recycling" sections of your class Enabling/ disabling Guest Access to your class Restricting Guest Access to select portions of your class Creating Spanish and other special characters Using the "Packaged File" option when posting content			Known Blackboard Issues Blackboard issues for AOL users Blackboard issues for Hotmail users Discussion board positing limits Problems with quotes displaying as question marks URL size limits in Blackboard in Discussion Board Login issues with Blackboard Group File Exchange issues Preventing quizzes from "timing out" Leading zero required when submitting decimal grades less than "0"
Handy Blackboard "add-in" utilities Preventing students from printing OR copying contents of online Blackboard exams Assigning points to all questions in an exam
Other Helpful Blackboard links: Plugins, viewers, filters and other utilites Blackboard Tutorials, Training and Teaching tips- a series of training tutorials and use tips for using its online course management system Blackboard Online support for Instructors -This site provides Online documentation, a searchable Knowledgebase, and information "how to's". You will need to create an account to use this feature!
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