Blackboard Instructors
It is time to prepare your courses for the Spring 2014 semester.
Remember as you are exporting and importing courses, the process may take awhile depending on how many other courses are queued. Please DO NOT submit multiple times or it will take even longer.
When you do an import in Blackboard on your home computer, using a residential internet connection, you may experience a delay of 15 minutes or more between the time that you select Submit to submit your import and the time that your import is actually submitted and queued. This is what you will see if that happens: the page with your import check-list will remain displayed, your Submit button will be highlighted in blue and in the status bar on the lower left of your browser window you will see a message that says “Sending request.” If this happens, do not try to submit your import again, but rather wait until the page changes and you see the yellow banner at the top of the page that indicates the progress of your import. When you see this banner, you will know that your import has been successfully submitted and queued.
Please review the Prepare Your Course for the Semester info which can be found at:
https://www.hvcc.edu/deptweb-dlweb/faculty.php?id=1199&cat=28
Training
If you would like assistance with preparing your course or any other training in Blackboard, please call 629-7070 or e-mail DLHelp@hvcc.edu to set up an appointment.
Don’t Forget to Make Your Course Available
Once the semester begins, students will only have access to a course that has been made available by the course instructor. You must manually make your course/s available in Blackboard in order for students to see them.
To set the course availability, follow these steps:
- From the Control Panel of your course
- Select Customization
- Select Properties
- Locate Step 3: Set Availability and select Yes, “Make Course Available“
- Select Submit
- A green confirmation bar will appear indicating that the properties have been updated
Contact the Center for Distance and Online Learning if you need assistance at DLHelp@hvcc.edu, call 518-629-7070 or stop by the Center for Distance and Online Learning in BTC 1042.
Published: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:00:35 +0000 by s.gallagher