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The Office of Computer Services provides
University faculty, adjunct professors, graduate assistants,
and teaching assistants the ability to post online course
content; host blogs, wikis, discussion forums and chat
sessions; provide online access to grades and assessments;
and perform other teaching/learning activities through
the Blackboard Learn System.
Within the Blackboard system, University faculty, adjunct
professors, graduate assistants and teaching assistants,
who manage Blackboard course content, are classified as
either “instructors”, “builders”,
or “teaching assistants”. To simplify the following
information, any individual responsible for uploading and
managing content within an individual Blackboard course
will be referred to as a “Blackboard instructor”.
This policy regulates the use of the Temple University
Blackboard system by Blackboard instructors.
- While the Temple University Blackboard system
is maintained and managed by the Computer Services
department, the management of course material in individual
Blackboard courses is the responsibility of the Blackboard
instructor.
- Blackboard instructors are responsible for their
course content.
- Blackboard instructors are responsible for ensuring
that content adheres to current copyright laws.
- Although Computer Services performs nightly
backups of all data on the Blackboard system, the Blackboard
system does not enable a course or item within the
course to be recovered from system backups. Therefore,
it is the responsibility of the Blackboard instructor
to maintain a backup of their course(s) and course
materials. Computer Services recommends the following:
- Blackboard instructors should periodically download
grades stored in the Blackboard Grade Center. Downloading
will create a file, which can be stored on your personal
computer and opened in Excel or other spreadsheet
program
- Blackboard instructors should maintain an archive
of their course(s). Archiving creates a compressed
(zipped) file that contains all of the documents
posted in the course.
- Blackboard instructors should never recycle a Blackboard
course without first downloading grades and archiving
course content.
- Entire courses or parts of courses may be removed
or recycled by Blackboard instructors. Once courses
or course content are removed or recycled from the
Blackboard system, the only method of retrieval it
is through archives or exports made by Blackboard instructors
prior to the course or content removal.
- Blackboard instructors may request that a course
be removed through the “Course Tools” tab.
Once a course is deleted from the Blackboard system,
it cannot be undeleted.
- Blackboard instructors can remove content from
within a course. Once deleted, content cannot be
undeleted.
- Blackboard instructors can recycle courses. This
allows Blackboard instructors to remove unneeded
non-reusable parts of courses, such as the students
and grades, while leaving the teaching material for
reuse during the next semester. Recycling is permanent;
content cannot be recovered.
- Blackboard instructors can un-enroll and/or recycle
students from a course. Once un-enrolled, all gradebook
items, discussion forum postings, and drop-box items
associated with un-enrolled or recycled students
will be removed and will be unrecoverable.
- Provided they have an archive, Blackboard instructors,
who inadvertently remove or recycle a course on the
Blackboard system, can contact the Instructional
Support Center at 215-204-8529 to request their course
be restored.
- Courses that are inactive for two or more years
will be automatically deleted from the Blackboard system.
- An inactive course is defined as any course that
has not been changed or modified by the Blackboard
instructor for two or more years.
- Once a course is deleted from the Blackboard system,
it cannot be undeleted.
- Blackboard instructors are responsible for
enrollment and un-enrollment in their Blackboard courses.
- Blackboard instructors can request automatic enrollment
into specified Blackboard courses by using the “Auto-Enroll” tool
on the “Course Tools” tab. Automatic
enrollment enrolls all students who have an AccessNet
account and are registered for a specified Temple
University course into a specified Blackboard course.
- Automatic enrollment for a semester begins on the
Friday before the first day of the semester and occurs
daily at 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. Automatic Enrollment
for the semester will stop two weeks after the drop/add
date. Blackboard instructors, who wish to have automatic
enrollment occur at a non-scheduled time may use
the “synch” tool.
- When a student drops a course and is removed from
the Temple University official class list, they are
not automatically removed from the Blackboard course
list. Blackboard instructors who wish to have students
removed from the Blackboard class list must do so
manually.
- Blackboard instructors are responsible for un-enrolling
students from their course(s) at the end of each
semester. This will not occur automatically.
- Blackboard instructors must comply with all
other Computer Service policies on computer usage,
networking, security, and other applicable policies
related to the use of Temple University computer resources.
Detailed instructions for using Blackboard
are available on the
ISC website's How-To page.
For consultations, please contact the Instructional Support
Center at one of the locations listed below.
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