The Fall Semester Begins!!

I am in the process of preparing the student enrollments for our first day of classes. I will enroll students in all of the online and hybrid courses tonight. Student enrollments for seated courses are done by request only. If you are a seated instructor, when your course is ready for student access, let me know and I will set it up so your course will be included in the daily student enrollment the following business day. Some of you have already given the okay to begin running your seated course enrollments, so I will begin those tonight as well.

• Is your course available or unavailable? Double check the status of your course within Blackboard and make any necessary modifications. Click here for instructions on changing course availability.

• If your content isn't quite up and ready to go, at the start of your session, keep or make your course available, but post a welcome announcement with information for your students. Let them know when you will have the content ready. Students become very concerned if they can not access the course on time.

• Check your course menu, do you have duplicate buttons or areas that are empty? When you copied over course content into your new course, you probably copied buttons that you don't need. You need to get rid of those to clean up your course menu. Click here to view, download, and/or print a handout on modifying your course menu.
• Are your students enrolled in your Blackboard course area? Go to the "Control Panel" in your course and click on "List/Modify Users", then "List All", and "List All" again. From this screen you can see all of the students enrolled and compare to your enrollment list in SIS. If you don't see any students enrolled but they are on your enrollment list...let me know. You can submit a ticket through IssueTrak, and let me know that you are not seeing any students enrolled and include your 5 digit course id number in the request.

• Check your email address that is set-up in Blackboard. Go to the "Control Panel" in your course and click on "List/Modify Users", then "List All", and "List All" again. Find your own information in the list and verify that the email that is set-up within Blackboard is the email account that you are utilizing. If students send you emails using the "email" tool in Blackboard, it will go to that account.