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In addition to having a duration that includes the current date, a course must also be made available for students to access it. Please see our page on Course Availability for more information. |
The course duration setting is found inside a Blackboard course under Course Management>Customization>Properties. Course durations are set when the course shell is created. Students cannot access a course if the duration does not include today's date, regardless of whether or not the course has been made available.
Courses have a limited duration to assist instructors in complying with fair use guidance around teaching that copy righted materials only be made available during the period they are in use for a course.
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Course Creation
Syracuse Blackboard courses are populated automatically based on data that comes from MySlice, where official registrar data is held. Each course receives a default duration that can be edited by instructors. The course duration determine where under which term label a course appears.
- Courses are created in Blackboard 6-8 weeks before the start of each semester for all courses that appear in MySlice with an instructor of record.
- Courses receive automatic start and end dates:
- The start date is set to four weeks before the start of main campus classes
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- . For example,
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- Fall 2021
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- classes began on 8/30/2021
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- so the duration start was set to 8/2/2021.
- The end date
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- is set to the
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- end of the month
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- that follows the semester. For example, the Fall 2021 semester
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- ended 12/17/2021
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- so the duration
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- end was set to 1/31/2022.
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- "Current Courses" area includes all courses that are set to "continuous" by the instructor or where the current date is within the duration of the course.
- The start and end date of a course can be changed by the instructor in Original Courses by going in the course to Customization>Properties.
- Students can only enter courses listed in the "Current Courses" area, if they are set to available.
- Instructors can adjust the course duration to move a course to the "Current Courses" area so that all students in the course can enter it.
- ITS can extend access to a course for an individual student upon request. We require instructor permission be sent to help@syr.edu.
Courses have a limited duration to assist instructors in complying with fair use guidance around teaching that copy righted materials only be made available during the period they are in use for a course.
Course Enrollments
Enrollments in Blackboard are populated automatically based on registrar data from MySlice.
- Instructors and TAs listed in MySlice are automatically populated in their respective roles in the course
- Student rosters populate in Blackboard 4 weeks before the start of each semester.
- Instructors can add other instructors and teaching assistants to their own courses. To remove or change a users, or to add a student that will not be enrolled by the registrar, please email help@syr.edu.
- Instructor can request that courses have their enrollments merged into a single course.