Support - How Do I . . .?
Set Up a Blackboard Course
The Blackboard Enterprise System Administrator for Denison University is Anne Crowley. She can be reached at 587-6219 or via e-mail.
With the upgrade to the Blackboard Academic Suite, Release 7.2. during the summer of 2007, all courses are automatically created in the Blackboard course management system. However, students are unable to access their Blackboard course until a faculty member logs into Blackboard and makes the course(s) available. Making a course available means that the students enrolled in a particular course (and only those students) will be able to view the syllabus, reading material, assignments, on-line discussions, etc. that have been posted by the faculty. In addition to creating the courses automatically, the system will automatically update the student enrollment on a daily basis.
Faculty interested in using Blackboard can log into the Blackboard system at http://courses.denison.edu using their e-mail login and password.
To make your course Available:
1. Click the "Settings" link in Course Options area of the Control Panel.
2. Click "Course Availability" in the next menu.
3. Choose "Yes" to make your course visible to students.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click "Submit" to save your changes.
If you are teaching multiple courses, follow these steps to make your other courses available.
The Blackboard course management system also allows the content of the course to be copied from one semester to another. Either the faculty member or Blackboard Administrator can complete this function by using the course copy option in the Control Panel.