Blackboard Transition Arrangements from Summer Term 2009 to Semester A 2009-10
- Re-initialization of Blackboard courses for Semester A 2009-10
- All Semester A courses will be created on Blackboard
- Synchronisation of scheduling data in AIMS with Blackboard course sites for Semester A
- End of Summer Term 2009 - Arrangements for Summer Term Blackboard course sites
- Act NOW - Backup materials in your courses
Re-initialization of Blackboard courses for Semester A 2009-10
Blackboard (Bb) courses used in Semester A 2008-09 will be re-initialised for use again in the coming Semester A 2009-10. The re-initialization process will retain all course materials (including course documents, content collection files, tests and surveys) within the individual course sites, but all students' information will be removed. The course sites will then be ready to receive new students' information for Semester A 2008-09. Consequential to this, all section sites used in Semester A 2008-09 will be removed on 5 August 2009 (Wednesday). Teaching team records (instructors, teaching assistants, course developers, etc) will be removed from Semester A 2008-09 Bb courses on 14 August 2009 (Friday).
If you do not want to keep course content of Bb courses used in Semester A 2008-09, you will need to access the courses to remove the content before 14 August 2009 (Friday).
All Semester A courses will be created on Blackboard
All Semester A credit bearing courses will be created on Bb automatically without the need of a request. To update your course's teaching team, check out the steps on how to add users to your Bb course site. If you have any difficulties, please call the EDO enquiry 3442 6727 or email to edo@cityu.edu.hk.
Synchronisation of scheduling data in AIMS with Blackboard course sites for Semester A 2009-10
Please note that the following automated processes will be applied on Bb to facilitate teaching and learning:
Starting Friday, 14 August 2009
- Open Bb course section sites for Semester A 2009-10 courses.
- Synchronisation of members of the courses' teaching team on Bb course sites with instructor data in the Master Class Schedule.
- Populate Bb course sites and course section sites with registered students according to records in AIMS (student records will be automatically updated in Bb until the end of Semester A 2009-10).
Starting Thursday, 27 August 2009
- Create Groups within sites according to section records in AIMS.
End of Summer Term 2009 - Arrangements for Summer Term Blackboard course sites
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
- User lists (students & teachers) in Semester B Bb course sites were frozen (i.e. no updates from AIMS).
Please note that the system will NOT switch all Summer Term course sites to "unavailable" automatically. To switch semester B course sites to unavailable, check out the steps on how to set course availablilty.
Act NOW - Backup materials in your courses
- Backup your Bb courses including materials in the Content Collection area for protection of your content as soon as possible.
- Download any existing student related materials (discussion messages, assignment submissions, grade books, etc) to your own PC if you wish to make use of them in the future.
- Remove any materials that you do not wish to keep in your course sites on the system after you have archived the Bb courses or backup the materials on your own PC.
- Click here for details of archiving the Bb course and backing up your content materials.
Thank you.
Education Development Office
July 2009
