Campus Support Center

As of Fall 2016 Semester:

• Course shells are now created automatically for all course sections each semester.
  • You will no longer need to contact the Campus Support Center to request your course shells. Each semester’s course shells will be ready for your preparations as the course sections are created in Banner. Generally they will be available mid-way through the previous semester.
  • Every section of a course now has its own course shell created. If you wish to have these course sections merged, you will need to contact the Campus Support Center to request that they be merged into a “parent course” which will allow you to manage the content, the course management, and the communications tasks for all sections of the course from one central location. This works much like you are used to, but it is just set up differently. The CSC Desk will need to know the CRNs of the sections you wish to merge.

• Course enrollments to the courses will take place automatically.
  • You will no longer need to enroll your roster yourself or have the students self-enroll. Enrollments will feed from Banner.
  • Enrollment changes from Adds and Drops will also come across automatically. Drops will change students' course availability to “disabled” and you won’t seem them in your Users list anymore. However, as always dropped students will not be completely deleted/removed from their courses in order to retain any course work they may have performed. If reinstated, they will be re-enabled automatically, like they never left.  Also, should you need to see the student in your course again temporarily, contact Campus Support.
  • The default course enrollment option has been changed from Self-enroll to Instructor-enroll, and it should remain that way for proper control of the automated enrollments.

• Tegrity Links in Blackboard Course Shells.
  • The Tegrity Courses links no longer need to be requested. The Tegrity Lecture Capture tool is in the Tools section by default now.  If desired, you can add a Tool Link to your Table of Contents course menu with the Add Menu Item (+ plus sign) button in the upper left corner of your course menu.

• Tools section
  • As this section lists all tools that are enabled for use in your course, it is recommended that you use the “Hide Link” function for any tools that you are not specifically using.  This doesn’t disable the tool, it just hides it from the student in this section.  It makes the page look less cluttered and prevents them from accessing tools that aren’t being used.