Blackboard Course Site Requests

Beginning December 14, 2011

• Datatel will be integrated directly into Blackboard.  What that means is the integration tool (called snapshot) will create all courses in Blackboard for Spring 2012.  This will occur as the Curriculum Data Management office creates the course sections in Datatel.
• Instructor names entered in Datatel will be assigned to the course site in Blackboard. Datatel needs to list all instructors and others (ex: Department Chair, Division Chair, Dean, etc) who should have access to a course section.
• Students will be enrolled into the correct course section based on their registration. If a student drops, changes or adds a course, Bb will be updated automatically. Students who drop a course after the start date will be disabled in the Blackboard course (grayed out in the course, but still visible to the instructor).
• Course sections will no longer be combined. The reason is any course/student enrollment information listed in Datatel is mirrored in Blackboard.
• The integration tool will run every two hours (except 2-4 am) daily and automatically update all the information in Blackboard (courses, users, enrollments) from the information in Datatel.

Faculty/Staff Blackboard Usernames

Starting December 14, 2011

• Blackboard usernames for faculty/staff will match their WebAdvisor username. 
• The new login will affect all curriculum courses in Blackboard (spring 2011 through spring 2012)
• The password for faculty/staff will be reset to the birth date in MMDDYYYY format (Example:  April 25, 1947 would be 04251947).  Faculty/staff will need to change the password to of their own choosing when logging into Bb. 
• The primary email address listed in Datatel for faculty (Groupwise or @faculty.faytechcc.edu) will be the email address integrated into Blackboard.
• Make sure the primary email adddress listed in Datatel matches the one used for student communications listed in Blackboard.
  

Additonal information is online at Spring 2012 Blackboard Changes

Any changes concerning course enrollments, course title or course id in Blackboard after December 14, 2011 must be processed through Datatel. 

Points of contact for additions/changes are Karen Williams for courses/sections/instructors and
Ann Jones for students. 

Learning Technologies will no longer add curriculum courses, instructors, or students to course sites in Blackboard. Learning Technologies will no longer have access to add, remove or enroll students or instructors manually in Blackboard. 

The bottom line will be, "If it is not in Datatel, it is not in Blackboard." 
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Instructors are Responsible for Course Content

• FTCC online, hybrid and web assisted courses are required to use the SACS compliant Blackboard template.
• Instructions for saving and importing the template are located here.
• The SACS compliant Blackboard template is available for download by clicking here. Updated 10.26.2011
• Blackboard partial template containing Syllabus I and Syllabus II buttons click here
• Info for distinguishing previous course id's is listed here. Course id's are also displayed when copying to a Blackboard site.
• If you plan to copy current Blackboard course content to the new sites, click here for instructions. Updated 10.26.2011

NEW!! Updated October 26, 2011
The FTCC Template link above is the newest version. It contains the additions of Syllabus I and Syllabus II. If you have already incorporated the previous FTCC Template into your course, please download the Syllabus I and II links for your course by clicking here. Instructions for saving and importing the template are located here.

Please export grade centers for each course. Information is located here.

Blackboard courses remain on the server for one year's semester cycle. Example: Fall 09 will stay online until Fall 10 is past the 10% point. Spring 10 will stay on Blackboard until Spring 11 is past the 10% point, etc.

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• NOTE ON STUDENT NAME CHANGES:
  Although name changes are processed through FTCC's registrar's office, the name change does not affect the student's username used for logging into email, Blackboard, and/or WebAdvisor.  The student's name on the class roster may not match the Blackboard login.
  
  If you have a question concerning a student on your blackboard roster, refer first to the student's first name and last 4 digits of his/her datatel number.  If both of these match a name from your Datatel/WebAdvisor roster then this is an indication they are the same student.

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A student can only be listed in Blackboard if their Datatel record is correct.