{"id":3180,"date":"2012-05-15T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-instructors-are-you-ready-for-the-summer-2012-semester\/"},"modified":"2012-05-15T11:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T15:45:59","slug":"blackboard-instructors-are-you-ready-for-the-summer-2012-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-instructors-are-you-ready-for-the-summer-2012-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Instructors: Are you ready for the Summer 2012 semester?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackboard Instructors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the Summer 2012 semester please review the <strong>Prepare Your Course for the Semester<\/strong> information which can be found at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/deptweb-dlweb\/preSemesterPrep.html\">https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/deptweb-dlweb\/preSemesterPrep.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t Forget to Make Your Course Available<\/strong><br \/>\nOnce the semester begins, students will have access only to a course that has been made available by the course instructor. You must set the availability of your course(s) in Blackboard. To set the course availability, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the <strong>Control Panel<\/strong> of your course<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Customization<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Properties<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Locate <strong><em>Step 3: Set Availability<\/em><\/strong> and select <strong>Yes<\/strong>, &#8220;<em>Make Course Available<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Submit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A green confirmation bar will appear indicating that the properties have been updated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Grade Center Clean-Up<br \/>\n<\/strong>If you have extra Grade Center columns hanging around (discussion boards, assignments, etc.) and you would like to clean them up but you aren\u2019t sure how or you aren\u2019t given an option to delete, please contact us for assistance. Also, it\u2019s important to check for hidden Grade Center columns in some cases they may just be hidden from your view but not your students; again, please contact us for assistance.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please call 629-7070 or e-mail <a href=\"mailto:DLHelp@hvcc.edu\">DLHelp@hvcc.edu<\/a> for assistance or to set up an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 15 May 2012 11:45:59 +0000 by\u00a0s.gallagher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Blackboard Instructors: In preparation for the Summer 2012 semester please review the Prepare Your Course for the Semester information&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}