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TLC > Blackboard Container Preparation

 

Blackboard Container Preparation

This page will provide information that will help you prepare your Blackboard containers so you can use them for your classes.  Beginning in November, 2008 we are automatically generating Blackboard containers using a process called Snapshot.  If you are not familiar with what Snapshot is, view a video about it before continuing.

Video Update on 12/16/08 - When students drop a class their status will be changed to "unavailable" and their work will be retained, even before census day. This is to protect the work of students who are inadvertently dropped from classes. Students who drop more than 7 days before the semester begins will be removed completely from the container as if they were never there.

How to get started with Blackboard

If you haven't used Blackboard before, here is a page that explains how to get started.

New Container Checklist

The following steps need to be completed before your section container is ready for students.

  1. Prepare your container.
    • If you have already been teaching with Blackboard, copy your development container or your current semester's container into the section container for the upcoming semester.  Instructions for copying a container.
    • OR - If you're new to teaching with Blackboard at Cuyamaca College, please import the Blackboard template into your section container and then modify it with your class information.  Do this only if you are starting from scratch.
  2. If you use a publisher's course cartridge, follow the instructions provided by the publisher to install it into this semester's section container.
  3. Make modifications or additions to the section container as needed.
  4. Remove the ReadMe menu item from your section container.
    Control Panel > Course Options > Manage Course Menu > Remove button next to the ReadMe menu item.
  5. Make your section container available.
    http://www.cuyamaca.edu/tlc/bb/docs/course_availability.asp