Beginning of Semester Blackboard Reminders for Faculty

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Course Availability

Your courses are initially set not to be available to students. To make the course available, use Control Panel | Settings | Course Availability | Yes

Student and Faculty Email

Email addresses that are stored in Bb are separate from the student information system (SIMS) and Active Directory. They are set when the student's record is first created in Bb, at a time when the email address taken from SIMS could be incorrect or missing. Everyone is urged to check preferred email addresses on Bb:

Tools | Personal Information | Edit Personal Information

And to update the email address to a preferred address using:

Tools | Update Email

Course Copy Tool - Using Materials from a Previous Semester

You can copy any or all materials (minus student enrollments, discussion board threads) from a previous semester's course into the current semester's course. This is done using Control Panel | Course Copy.
Click here for a detailed tutorial.

Course Merge Tool - Combining Multiple Sections Into One

If you teach multiple sections of the same course, or undergraduate and graduate sections of a course that have common contents, you can merged these courses into one and therefore need to manage materials in one place. This is possible even if you are teaching at multiple campuses. This is done using the Course Merge Tool which is available on the Home tab in Blackboard (it is not located in your individual course.)
Click here for a detailed tutorial.

If You Cannot Find Your Course on Blackboard

The most likely cause of this is that you are not listed as the instructor of record in SIMS/QUASAR and therefore Blackboard doesn't know to put you in the course. Check with your department, or look the course up on the QC Home Page (Quicklinks | Schedule of Classes) and see who is the instructor.

If Your Students Cannot Find Your Course on Blackboard

If this is happening to multiple students, then it is likely you have not made your course available (see Course Availability above.)
If a particular student cannot see your course, but others can, then it is likely the student, assuming he or she was actually registered at one time, has been dropped from the course, likely because of nonpayment of tuition. Once that problem is cleared, the student will return to the course. If the student is not returned, contact bbsupport@qc.cuny.edu.

Adding More Students, Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Graders

If you wish to add anyone to your course, use Control Panel | Enroll User, and browse for and select the person you want to add. You may add anyone from any CUNY campus. The individual will be added with a role of student. If you want to change that role to give additional privileges, use Control Panel | List/Modify Users, Search for the person, click List Properties, and choose a role at the bottom of the page. Please assign roles wisely.