By default, all new Blackboard courses are unavailable to students. Those listed as Instructor will see (unavailable) next to their course name when they log into Blackboard. That means that instructors can access their courses and upload content, but that they’re currently hidden to students.
It is the responsibility of the instructor to make their course available to students at the beginning of the semester. Here’s how:
1. Go into the course site you wish to activate.
2. Go to the Control Panel underneath the Course Menu.
3. Select Settings from the Course Options box.
4. Select Course Availability from the menu.
5. Select Yes, then click Submit.
Blackboard will be down for minor upgrades on Thursday, December 27. We anticipate downtime to last from 9AM until 12PM. No one will be able to access Blackboard during this time.
If you have any questions, contact us at blackboard@stonybrook.edu or at 631-632-2777.
Spring 2008 courses should be available to instructors at this time. If you are teaching a course in Spring 2008 and do not see it when you log onto Blackboard, please let us know by email or phone (631-632-2777).
http://blackboard.sunysb.edu is no longer valid!
Use http://blackboard.stonybrook.edu instead.
Be sure to update your bookmarks!
Winter 2008 Blackboard course sites are currently available to faculty.
Spring 2008 Blackboard course sites will be created in mid-to-late December. More specific information will be available when we get it.
If you used Blackboard during the Spring 2007 / Summer 2007 semesters — this announcement pertains to your course!
On Friday, November 9th, we will be deleting all rosters from Spring 2007 & Summer 2007 Blackboard courses. (Course content will remain, but all
student information will be removed.)
IF you :
- are teaching a class that does not follow the West Campus Semester schedule (perhaps it overlaps semesters) OR
- still have students who are completing an incomplete,
You must fill out this online form by Wednesday, November 7th, 2007.
What happens when rosters are deleted?
When rosters are removed, ALL GRADES, student file submissions and student webpages disappear from your course. This information is permanently
deleted, we cannot get it back.
Instructors should:
- Download your gradebook.
- Download any assignments received via the Assignment manager:.
- If you used the Digital dropbox, you will have to go in and save each file
individually.
Please join us!
Stony Brook subscribes to the TLT Group.
The following on-line workshops are available for all Faculty.
Our November Workshop
"Mentoring and More: Creating an Environment to Support Early-Career Faculty"
an online workshop co-sponsored by POD and presented by Keith Farrington, Michael Reder, and Mary Deane Sorcinelli on Mondays, November 5, 12, and 19 at 1PM EST.
MORE INFORMATION
Our December Workshop
"LTAs to Make Student Learning Visible in Web-Based Classes"
Also co-sponsored by POD and presented by Barbara Millis, Doug Eder, and Ray Purdom on Tuesdays, December 4, 11, and 18 at 3PM EST.
MORE INFORMATION
SafeAssign came back online sometime around noon. If you continue to experience trouble accessing any SafeAssign assignments or reports via the Control Panel, please let us know.
Thank you for you patience.
We’ve received several emails from faculty indicating that SafeAssign is not working. This is a problem on Blackboard’s end (not ours), and they are currently working to resolve it.
We will send out another notice when it’s been fixed.
If you are using SafeAssign to collect student work in your course, please read on.
SafeAssign is a new assignment submission tool in Blackboard that checks student work for plagiarism. It only accepts the following file types: Word (.doc), PDF (.pdf), Plain Text (.txt), Rich Text (.rtf), Web page (.htm or .html) or a ZIP file (.zip) of multiple files of the preceding formats.
Office 2007 saves all Word documents with a .docx extension by default. This extension is not compatible with SafeAssign. Please advise your students to save their documents as an older version of Word to retain the .doc extension.
Click here for a short movie clip demonstrating how to save your Word 2007 document so that it has the .doc extension.