Hi Tyne,
The Blackboard GUI doesn't offer such a functionality. You can indeed assign a primary institution role when batch creating accounts, but there's no batch functionality to change it.
In my institution students are split up in 5 different institution roles, depending on the department where the have their education. Sometimes they also shift from one department to another.
Based on the information from the SIS I run a query on the database to select all student accounts for a specific department in the users table of the (bb60) database. That query also shows their primary institution role from the same table. With a search-replace statement I change the initial primariry institution role into the desired one (you need to use the institution role PK1's for that).
Simply by running 5 queries I can add all students to the proper institution role.
It's relatively ease to accomplish but ofcourse you need access to the database.
Hope this helps.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Henk van Rijssen
ROC Midden Nederland
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Van: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist namens merv stapleton
Verzonden: vr 20-2-2009 17:02
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Onderwerp: Re: Batch changing Institutional roles
Hi Tyne,
There is an option in the Batch Add users to include Primary Institutional Role as part of the upload. This should do the job for you.
Regards
Merv
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tyne Koppen
Sent: 20 February 2009 15:56
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Subject: Batch changing Institutional roles
Hello everyone,
My question is about the setting and changing of Institutional roles.
As a bit of background, we are currently running Blackboard 8 SP3 and for the most part have only ever created students with the same Institutional role, so the tabs, modules and branding (let's call them the frontend) the students see have always remained the same no matter what course they are enrolled on.
We are now developing a new programme in which a student needs to complete a number of courses in order to gain the qualification and what we would like to do is give students a different frontend depending on which course they are currently taking part in. We think that the way to do this is to change the student's Institutional role, and therefore associated frontend, each time they start a new course. This is fine if the number of students is small, as it can be done manually, but the number we are expecting would not make this practical.
So my question is, is there some way in which we can batch change student Institutional roles?
Look forward to your responses and thank you,
Regards
Tyne Koppen
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