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- Courses and enrollments into Blackboard are fully automated through the registration process. Each semester, official courses and enrollments are populated from the registration process and updates to those courses and enrollments are performed twice a day. You do not need to request a course in Blackboard for your courses.
- By default, courses that have been generated each semester are labeled "unavailable" meaning students cannot access them. It's up to the instructor as to when they would like their course to be made "available" to the enrolled students.
- Some materials in Blackboard are not "really in Blackboard" but rather in subsystems. These subsystems include the Echo 360 videos and Turnitin.
- File Names are important. Faculty and students uploading documents in the Blackboard system should take care when naming the files.
- file names should not contain any spaces or special characters (e.g., ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) > <). Because the Blackboard Learning System runs on a UNIX platform, spaces and special characters can be misinterpreted by the system. To indicate a space in a file name the underscore key ( _ ) can be used (e.g., file_name.doc). This also applies to naming columns in the Grade Center. Use the underscore symbol _ and a period . as separators. See below for examples.
- file names should not contain any spaces or special characters (e.g., ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) > <). Because the Blackboard Learning System runs on a UNIX platform, spaces and special characters can be misinterpreted by the system. To indicate a space in a file name the underscore key ( _ ) can be used (e.g., file_name.doc). This also applies to naming columns in the Grade Center. Use the underscore symbol _ and a period . as separators. See below for examples.
- Student assignments are now fully integrated into the Grade Center where instructors can go to retrieve these items.
- You can add a TA, Course Builder or Grader to your course. Go to the Blackboard Roles page Managing Users and User Roles page for a description and how to add them.
- Organizations - Blackboard Organizations expand the scope of the enterprise Blackboard system at Syracuse University to support non-course groups. These organizations can serve as an online meeting space for groups that would like a space for information sharing, collaboration and communication.
- You can contact us for assistance anytime. New and advanced users of Blackboard can send an email to help@syr.edu to request assistance, training or report a problem. Support Contacts consists of centralized personnel as well as support staff at the schools and colleges.
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Sources and Relevant Links
Blackboard Managing Users and User Roles
Support Contacts
Grade Center
Turnitin
Blackboard Organizations