To speed up well used tasks you could use the API (if you have Level 3) and
write a few scripts to run the task for you.
Regards,
Matt Elton
University of Northumbria
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
UK
Tel: +44 191 227 4284
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Gamble" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Link for a course not appearing on My Institiution Page
> What's driving me up the wall on this aspect of Bb is that when you batch
> create courses, they are created UNavailable by default, so you have to go
> in (having done batch to save time) and make each one available. Huh!
>
> And another - when you roll over courses and select to not include users,
of
> course, that removes the Instructor(s) too. I can see the logic (sort of)
> but it's a pain to have to remember to go back into a course, re-enroll
the
> Instructor - oh, and then, of course, dig down again to change this users
> rights from student to instructor. Or am I missing something easy.....?
> --
> Regards
> Mark
>
> Mark Gamble - Head, AV-Media Services, Learning Resources
> Tel-ext 2260 Fax 2259 Mobile 077 200 686 05
>
> Have you seen our website: http://lrweb.luton.ac.uk/av-media/
>
> > From: Kate Boardman <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Kate Boardman <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:08:27 +0100
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Link for a course not appearing on My Institiution Page
> >
> > Vanessa, if you're looking from a student viewpoint, are you sure that
the
> > course is available? This is the most common error. You can still see
them
> > listed under email/catalog if you're enrolled but the course is
unavailable.
> >
> > Or in the properties, from sysadmin, of a course, check that on course
> > duration is set to continuous. When we went 5.01 > 5.5.1 for some reason
> > some courses lost that checkmark and caused me all sorts of angst
because
> > they stopped appearing.
> > Kate
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Kate Boardman
> > Learning Technologies Team
> > IT Service
> > University of Durham
> > South Road
> > Durham DH1 3LE
> >
> > Tel.: 0191 374 1502
> > Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> > Web: http://www.dur.ac.uk/k.l.boardman
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MLE Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Vanessa Quinn
> > Sent: 25 September 2002 10:50 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Link for a course not appearing on My Institiution Page
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Wondering if you might be able to help me. One or two students are
> > enrolled in a course in blackboard, yet the "blue link" to this course
is
> > not appearing under "My Courses" (courses you are participating in) in
> > the "My Institution" section.
> >
> > Even though they are enrolled in the course and can access it through
the
> > course catalog but the link is just not appearing on the my institution
page
> >
> > has anyone experienced this before?
> > We are currently running blackboard 5.5.0 - Build 129
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Vanessa
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