Login to WebCT and make certain
that you have the course shells
you requested for your classes. If you cannot login or if you do not
see the expected sections, please contact: Steve.Dodson@marin.edu
Copy your old course to your new
course shell. The student records will not be
copied over to the new shell when you do this.
Begin designing and/or making
changes to your new course.
Back up your new course file to a
local computer.
After you
have the two backup files stored on your computer (one with
students, one without) please go back to your old courses and delete
any backups located on the server. By doing this you will always have backups of
your courses that are not stored on our servers. This will help keep
the performance of the servers optimal and keep us under our seat
license. One more ramification of not doing this is you will probably
receive emails from students who are using last semesters account logon
information and reporting that when they logon they are not enrolled in
any classes.
4th week of the semester:
All old shells will be deleted, so if you do not have a backup file, you will lose your data!
Backup your course
with last semesters students and save as a ".bak" file; then download it to your computer. By doing this
you will have a backup that contains student records in the event of a
grade challenge or any other issue.
Unenroll the students in
your old course. This will block student access to the course but the
student records will still be visible to the instructor.
Warning:
If you do not unenroll your students at the end of the semester,
students may not be able to login to their new courses!
How to Backup & Download Your Course:
Enter your Course and click on the "Build" Tab
Click on the Manage Course link under the Designer Tools
Menu
Click on the Backup link
Click on Backup Course Button. Your file will be
"added to the queue." Wait a bit, click on Manage Course; then click on
the Backup link again.
You should see your file name and today's date with the
status marked "completed."
Click on the drop down arrow after the file name/title and
select "Save as File"
The default setting saves the backup file into the My
Files area. Type in a file name that you will remember in the "save as"
box and click on the OK button. (This step may take a while . . .)
If you receive an error message that indicates that your
file is
too large to save, then try saving the file in the "Class Files" area
rather than in the "My Files" area.
Click on File Manager under the Designer Tools Menu.
Look for the name of the file you just saved. It will have
the ".bak" ending
Click on the drop down arrow after the file name and
select "download."
Your computer may require you to select an area on your
hard drive on which to save your file, or it may simply download the
file automatically to your desktop.
How to Reset Your
Course:
Enter your Course and click on the "Teach" Tab
Click on the Manage Course link under the Designer Tools
Menu.
Click on the "Reset" link.
You will be warned that resetting the course "removes all
member-related data." (Please do not reset the course unless you have
followed the backup steps listed above to keep a copy of your student
data!)
You will be brought back to the MyBlackboard screen.
How to Unenroll
Students to Avoid Future Login Problems:
Enter your old course
Click on the "Teach" Tab
Click on Grade Book
Click on the first selection box in
the "Grades" tab. (This is usually the Student's Last Name Column.) If
you click on the top box in the column, you are able to select all of
the students in that column
Uncheck your name (course designer)
and uncheck any "Demo Student"
Click on the unenroll button
How To Copy your
old Course to your New Course Shell:
Login to Blackboard
Click on your new course shell name
Select the "Copy" function.
Click on the name of the course you wish to copy from last
semester
You are now ready to begin designing your course for the
new semester
