Bb 9.1 April 2014
Important note about Blackboard Date Management: If you plan to use the Use Course Start Date option in the Date Management tool in Blackboard (How do I do that?), be sure to do so before you export your course. If you try to use it after exporting, there will be no way to put the old start date in the dialog box, which will have been auto-filled through system programming and can’t be changed.
In addition, you should only run the Date Management tool after archiving your course (How to archive your course). Why? Running the tool will change your course due-dates, display dates, etc., which would cause issues, for example, were a student subsequently to dispute a grade in your course that s(he) received based on having missed due-dates for assigned work. In a case like this, you would want to have the original due-dates, display dates, etc., preserved for purposes of documentation, and the only way that you could do that would be by archiving your course before running the Date Management tool.
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As always, please feel free to contact the Distance Learning Office (629-7070/DLHelp@hvcc.edu) if you have any questions about this!
Published: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:14:17 +0000 by m.petersen