Getting a Course Created on Blackboard at NSU

During the Fall 2004 semester, NSU has been "piloting" a new way for setting up course on NSU's Blackboard Server. This new process allows NSU to copy the student enrollment from Osage/Excells to your Blackboard Course on the NSU Blackboard Server.
Here's how the process works:

1. An NSU Instructor contacts the Blackboard Administrator: bbadmin@nsuok.edu, and sends an e-mail request for the course including: the Instructor username, the semester and year for the course, and the NSU ZAP Number.
2. The Blackboard Administrator finds the course information in the Osage/Excells system and creates the Blackboard course shell on the server with a standardized course_id. The course_id will be in the form: Semester-Year-ZAPNumber (for example: "03-05-1123").
3. The Blackboard Administrator automatically loads the student roster from the current enrollment for the course in the Osage/Excells system into the Blackboard course.
4. The Instructor can now begin loading course materials and content to make it available for the students.

**New feature available in the coming upgrade to Blackboard 6.1: Once the standardized course shell is created, and the student roster is loaded into the course, you will be able to COPY or upload and ARCHIVE of course materials right into the newly created course shell! Here's how:

• Open the "old" course that has the content you want to copy.
• In the Control Panel, select "Copy Course".
• In the "Copy Course" screen, select "Copy Course Material to Existing Course".
• In the following screen, Click the "Browse" button next to the "Destination Course" field.
• Find and select the "new" course shell that was created for you by the Blackboard Administrator.
• Select which content items you want to copy from the "old" course to the "new" course.
• If the "new" course shell already has the NSU Student enrollment, make sure you leave the "Enrollment" option UN-Selected, or it will copy the Roster from the "old" course to the "new" course.
• Click on Submit, and the content items you selected will be copied from the "old" course into the newly created course shell. This will make it far easier to get up and running each semester if you teach similar courses and want to re-use your course content from semester to semester!