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Making your Blackboard Site Unavailable to Students

  • Go to the Control Panel of your Blackboard Course.
  • Under Course Options, click on Settings.
  • Click on the Course Availability link.
  • Select No and click Submit.

ATC-approved Blackboard Announcement

This is an automatically generated course site.  The faculty member assigned to teach this course may or may not choose to use the site.  Also, content within this site may or may not be ready for student use at this time.

Please follow the instructions for the use of this site provided to you by the faculty member teaching this course.  For online courses, you should receive communication from the faculty member in the form of a letter and/or email.  You should receive this communication just prior to or shortly after the semester starts.  For on campus and blended courses, please attend the first class session to obtain faculty instructions.  

Should you have questions about the use of this site, please contact the faculty member assigned to this course.  If no faculty member is assigned, please contact the department offering the course.

Wishing you much success in your studies at UIS.
Blackboard Administrators

Blackboard Copy Process

Time-Saving Tip: Before copying your course materials, remove content areas in the empty course site that you will not use. This simple step will reduce the amount of time you will spend reordering Blackboard content areas later.

Removing Content Areas from Empty Course Sites

NOTE: Do NOT remove Announcements, Communications, or Tools. Deleting these Blackboard Tool Links can break other features in Blackboard. If you accidentally remove these areas, please contact OTEL for assistance.

  • Go to the Control Panel of an empty course site.
  • Under Course Options, click on Manage Course Menu.
  • Click the Remove button to remove content areas you will not use in your course (Course Documents, Course Information, External Links, Assignments).
  • Click OK to confirm the deletion of the content area.
Copying Blackboard Materials

Watch a demonstration of how to copy your course materials (requires Flash Player).

  • Go to the Control Panel of the course that contains your materials (a course you've previously taught or a development site).
  • Under Course Options, click on Course Copy.
  • Click on the Copy Course Materials into an Existing Course link.
  • Under Select a Course:
    • Click the Browse button (opens a new window).
    • In Search by, enter your UIS NetID, select Instructor, and then click Search.
    • A list of courses in which you are the instructor will appear. Click the Select button next to the empty course shell (073 prefix).
  • Under Select Course Materials, check the boxes for each course area and tool to be copied to the empty course shell. You must select at least one of the options for the copy process to be completed.
    • Check the "Adaptive Release" box if you have any content with date restrictions (i.e., "Display After" or "Display Until"). If you do not copy adaptive release settings, then items and tests with these properties will not copy properly.
  • Do NOT check the box to copy E-Reserves unless you have contacted Brookens Library at 217-206-6633.
  • NEVER check the box to copy Enrollments! This option will place students from previous semesters in your current course. If you accidentally check this option, please contact OTEL at 217-206-7317 or otel@uis.edu.
  • Click Submit to send your copy request.
  • You will receive an email once the Blackboard server has processed your request. After you receive this email, you can begin editing your course.

Special Cases

  • Enrolling two or more course sections in one Blackboard site
    If you are teaching two or more sections of the same course and would like both sections enrolled in a single Blackboard course site, please contact OTEL at 206-7317 or otel@uis.edu.
  • Teaching a tutorial or graduate project
    Blackboard course sites were not automatically created for tutorials or graduate projects. If you would like a Blackboard for one-on-one work with a student, please contact OTEL at 206-7317 or otel@uis.edu.
  • Not listed as the instructor in the course schedule
    If you are not listed as the instructor of your course section in the course schedule, you will not have access to your Blackboard course site. Please contact your program secretary or online coordinator to be listed as the instructor in the course schedule. If your secretary or coordinator can verify that you will be teaching the section, please have them contact OTEL to enroll you as the instructor.
  • Requesting Blackboard course sites for other uses
    If you need a site for development, committee work, or other purposes, please contact OTEL at 206-7317 or otel@uis.edu.
  • Copying content from another instructor's course site
    If you are a new instructor and need to have materials copied from another instructor's course site, you will need to have instructor permissions in both sites. Please contact your department chair and/or the previous instructor for permissions. Once you have instructor-level access to the course site, you may copy the materials into your empty Blackboard course site.