WRITTEN instructions
- Click on the gear icon on the "My Available Course Sites" module.
- Click on the "Show Unavailable Courses" check box.
- Click on the "Submit" button.
On the Blackboard Home page (http://miami.edu/blackboard) you see the "Available" course sites. Instructors can see course sites that are "Unavailable" by clicking on the "Courses" tab. Students and instructors can show the "Unavailable" sites on the Home page with a few easy clicks. WRITTEN instructions
Video demonstration Instructors can quickly change the availability setting of a course site by following the instructions at http://goo.gl/jSk6fi
Joseph SIgnorile
8/20/2013 02:24:11 am
I feel that having to make classes AVAILABLE is a meaningless step in the process. Please make all classes available to students at least two to three weeks prior to the first day of class and give us the option to make them UNAVAILABLE. Also your video provides no information concerning the the process to follow to make a class available. In my opinion a bad idea.
Bill Vilberg
8/20/2013 04:21:14 am
Thank you for pointing out that the instructions for changing the availability of a course site should be included. That is a separate video. I have linked to it from the Banner on the Blackboard Home page, and from the video that shows how to show your Unavailable course sites.
Nelson Ehrhardt
8/20/2013 04:10:53 pm
Absurdly complex. Faculty and students should have access to Blackboard in an efficent and obvious manner.
Sylvia Thompson
8/21/2013 06:14:28 am
I agree with the previous comments. Why have the unavailable option? Every course should just automatically be available to the instructor and all of the students in the course 2 weeks (or whatever) before a semester begins.
Bill Vilberg
8/22/2013 08:35:42 am
Let me explain, not defend, the current configuration. In the past every course site was available when created and throughout the semester. While that made things easier for faculty, it meant that students kept checking the course sites for material without knowing if anything was going to be there. Many (more than half?) of the course sites go unused, so the links were deadens for the students. One goal in the change was to allow the students to see whether the course site was actually being used (available to the students) or not. Another goal was to properly reflect when the site was under construction and when it was ready to be used. Some faculty copy a previous semester's content into a new site and then, over time, clean it up. We thought it best to keep the students out while the changes were taking place.
Patrick McCarthy
8/26/2013 02:53:03 am
I knew how to use Blackboard before; now I can't even make my courses "available" without watching a video. This is a huge waste of my time. When you fix Blackboard so that it is user-friendly, i.e., when all courses are automatically available, let me know. Meanwhile, I'll wash my hands of the whole mess.
Bill Vilberg
8/26/2013 05:27:22 am
I sincerely apologize for the frustration that you feel. The change was made to make things better for the students, and it did add an extra step for the faculty. Students were checking all their course sites, even though many were not being used at all or were not ready for student access. This change was implemented so that students would only see course sites that they should be using. 8/27/2013 06:19:03 am
I have made my course available, and did a course copy from last year's course to import handouts and other course content. I edited the content, and updated the files to reflect this semester, uploaded a revised syllabus, and The system seemed to have lost EVERYTHING. Now I have only listed one student user, and NO COURSE CONTENT at all. Where did the content go? This is unacceptable. My assignments and some supplemental readings are supposed to be on Blackboard, and my students cannot access anything, and I cannot even add them as USERS. This needs to be fixed ASAP. This is beyond frustrating. Comments are closed.
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