For Steve, and others (from painful experience of having taken 380 course
through a rollover this summer...)
Be careful if you copy courses - the only reason we needed to copy courses
instead of recycling them directly was because people had used the
assessments and we wanted the gradebook - this is the bit of a course that
does NOT copy/archive...
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From: A list to promote discussion amongst MLE Blackboard/Courseinfo
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Sent: 07 November 2001 16:21 PM
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Subject: Re: Archiving Semester 1 courses!
Stephen wrote,
How do i archive Semester 1 courses and take previous notes and
students off them to that we can clear the decks for next years
semester
year1 courses?
Using course utilities you can recycle the course selecting which areas
should be removed.
You might want to archive the original before doing this in case of errors.
The other way would be to copy it to a new code and remove which ever
sections you didn't want to keep.
This way you could keep the old course and code so you could bring in new
students the following year.
An earlier post by Henk has hopefully answered one of my looming future
problems :)
Create an ODBC connection to your Blackboard Database (SQL or
Oracle).
Create in Access a new database and make a table join using this
ODBC
connection to the table dbo_users in the Blackboard database.
[snip]
We have some course sites which include all years and others which are
separated.
We are now realising that re-enrolling students each year is going to be a
nightmare. Some will have no doubt self-enrolled (which we are encouraging -
as the getting reliable up-to-date student data is proving slightly harder
than we imagined) and staff may have added additional students as well.
What I ideally need to be able to do is move a group of students up a level
to a recycled course site which has had all the time sensitive information
removed. Is this possible I wonder? Extracting student data from the
previous
years course is the first hurdle. I am not clear how using the above
technique we can extract data for just a particular course(s). Will have to
pass this to someone locally who understands more about the underlying
database connectivity stuff :-/
Just a thought, is there a way to archive a course and extract the student
data from the archive?
cheers,
ben
Stephen Barry wrote:
> Good afternoon my new List serv friends!
> I have a very basic question on archiving courses on Blackboard if anyone
> is interested in helping me out id much appreciate it.
> The Q is: How do i archive Semester 1 courses and take previous notes and
> students off them to that we can clear the decks for next years semester
> year1 courses?
>
> Thanks
> Steve
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