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When courses are merged, Blackboard creates a new course shell and funnels the enrollments from the contributing sections into the new "parent" course. The Grade Center of the merged course will display a column labelled "Child Course ID" that can help distinguish how students are registered. This column can be used to create Gradebook filters and Groups./wiki/spaces/blackboard01/pages/154385595.
The merge process creates a new, empty "parent" course shell and adds all enrolled users from the "child" course sections to it. Course content from child courses is not copied and will have to backed up and rebuilt in the new parent course after the merge. We recommend completing your merge request before adding content to an upcoming course.
Instructors will no longer have access to the "child" sections of the course. If you've previously created content in a contributing section that you need transferred to the new merged course, please contact help@syr.edu or 315.443.2677 for assistance.
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To have your Blackboard course merged, please complete the Merge Course Enrollments Request Form