Hi Fiona,
Blackboard has a document that talks about this kind of thing. They
recommend that you create 1+N courses, where N is the number of sections in
your course. You put all of your notes in the one "main" course, and then
create separate courses for each section/course using the notes. In your
separate section/course areas you point to the main course within External
Links (or elsewhere if you prefer). The document goes into a bit more
detail, including the URLs for CourseInfo 4 and Blackboard 5.
I don't have a link to the page that describes this, but the document is
called:
Managing Multiple Course Web Sites
BTW, I noted to our previous Blackboard rep that the ability to share
modules between courses was something we very much would like. The example I
gave was that the School of Accountancy uses the same case study in a number
of different courses (from different perspectives). It would be very handy
to have the information shared. Even in the scenario recommended in this
paper, there is some admin overhead, I assume. I.e., having to add all the
appropriate students to the one course. And even if you had the Level 3, I
am not sure that you could automatically have all the class lists
automatically added to the one "main" course. Besides course modules we
would like to share glossaries, and calendars.
Good luck!
Andrea Chappell
Technology Planner
Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology
University of Waterloo
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