Blackboard Course Creation & Copy Process

Blackboard Course Creation

• Instructors who are listed in the course schedule will have access to their empty Blackboard course sites at http://bb.uis.edu. 
• Students cannot access a fall course until it is either opened by the instructor or automatically opened on the first day of classes.
• Each semester, all courses will open to students on the first of classes.
• Instructors who are not teaching an online class can choose whether or not to use the Blackboard course. If you will not use the site, you can make the site unavailable to your students.
• Each course contains an announcement stating the Blackboard course site may or may not be used at the instructor's discretion.
• If you requested your courses early, the content will not be modified by the course creation process on August 10.

Copying Course Content

Though Blackboard course sites will be created with an empty template, you can copy materials from your other Blackboard course sites. Watch a demonstration of how to copy your course materials (requires Flash Player).

Special Situations

• Enrolling two or more course sections in one Blackboard site
• Teaching a tutorial or graduate project
• Not listed as the instructor in the course schedule
• Requesting Blackboard course sites for other uses
• Copying content from another instructor's course site

These changes are part of the Campus Senate Academic Technology Committee's Blackboard For All initiative. If you have questions about this process or need assistance, please contact the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning at 217-206-7317 or otel@uis.edu.