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Blackboard and Start of Year 2014

10 Jul 2014

Accessing and preparing your Blackboard course space (Bb course) for the new academic year.

All Bb courses are visible to students on Monday 8 September 2014. 

You can access Blackboard via My Manchester for staff. Click on the link to Blackboard in the Teaching category of links (you may need to click on ‘View all’).
 
You will be able to see and update your Bb course in the Course List on the Blackboard home page within 24-48 hours of it being activated. .

Activating your course

 
The course academic lead is responsible for making sure Bb courses are activated. However, some schools/programmes have local arrangements for activation. Bb courses may be activated by the course academic lead or anyone listed as primary instructor in Campus Solutions.
 
If you are a course academic lead, find out how to activate your course - this information includes details about rolling forward your 2013/14 course content to the 2014/15 Bb course. You can activate your Bb course as soon as you want, but it needs to have been set up in Campus Solutions first. Check with your school/programme administrator if you can’t see the Bb course listed in the portlet.
 
You can find the link to activate the Bb course via the new My Manchester for staff:
  • Log into my.manchester.ac.uk
  • Click on the A-Z link (top right hand corner)
  • Click on ‘M’ in the A-Z index
  • Scroll down and click on the ‘My courses (Blackboard)’ link
  • Click on the ‘Future’ tab to see your 2014/2015 courses

Ensuring your Bb course has appropriate content for the start of year

 
Please review the article on Preparing Blackboard 9 courses for start of year and semester 2 (STAFF), available on the Knowledge Base, which includes:
  • the process required in order for Bb courses to be made available to students in Blackboard;
  • a link to ‘Key dates for Blackboard 9’;
  • a link to a ‘Post-activation checklist’;
  • links to other related articles.

Blackboard 9 maintenance periods for 2014/15

 
The following are provisional dates for scheduled Bb9 maintenance and downtime at Easter 2015. Bb9 will be unavailable from 16:00 on Thursday 26 March until 12:01 on Monday 30 March 2015. We hope that this early notification will enable you to factor in these dates when timetabling assignment submission dates and key course activities.
 
We will confirm these dates as soon as possible.

Further information

 
If you have any queries please contact: