Comments on: Take the time to redesign

By: LG

LG — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:47:32 +0000

Eek, We don’t want to use the institutional setting for Student Course Availability of ‘No access before/after sectin start/end dates’!!!
We want to set it to NEVER, and reset and apply to children at term boundaries.

By: LG

LG — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:26:28 +0000

Dennis,
Our courses are blended. Instructors make use of assessments without much thought to resuse issues. We figure we’re removing just a little of student honor code violations by making past courses and their associated quizzes, etc. unavailable. That’s one rationale. (Is it as lame as it sounds now that I type it?)
Another issue that comes up is the length of My Blackboard course list and its sort order making it difficult for students to find current semester links if there are past semester links visible.

By: Dennis Self

Dennis Self — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:16:33 +0000

1. Samford moved from CE4 to CE6 a bit late and fortunately found the Bb solution as our means of operating.
2. We opted to make the course/sections unavailable and leave it up to the prof to turn it on when they are ready. So start/end dates are from Banner. Also, our CIO has a philosophy to make coursework available to students for several years for reference, so we don’t make them unavailable. We even have the CE4 server still running for historical purposes and access. I would like to know your rationale for making them unavailable.
3. I like your process and would love to have it. I didn’t hear back from your programmer.
Thanks for all your helpful comments.