Blackboard Tip: End of The Semester Check List

Blackboard End of the Semester Checklist

Here is an end of a semester checklist for your online course.

Grade Center

Complete all grading; confirm all calculated columns are working correctly

Check columns in the grade center and look for anything that is out of place (i.e., blank scores or missing scores).  You can set blackboard to calculate blank items as Zeroes: 

Click the chevron (two down arrows) near the weighted or total column.

Select Edit Column Information

Select No for Calculate as Running Total.

Click Submit

Download course Grade Book:

-          From within your grade center click Work Offline - select Download.

-          On the Download Grades page under Data, select Full Grade Center, and under Options, keep the option section as default, click submit.

          Click the Download button and choose where to save the file.

The file will be saved with excel 2003     *.xls extension.

Tip:  In blackboard 9.1 you can use course to course navigation to jump from one place in a course to the exact same place in the other course. Click the chevron near the course name in top gray bar

Under My Other Courses section you want to go to.

Archive your course

-           From the Control Panel, click Packages and Utilities and select Export/Archive Course.

   

-          Click Archive.

Note:  Archive saves all elements of the course, which includes all student grades, tests, student activities and the course roster. Export saves all or part of the course structure. Exporting does not include student activities or student roster.

 

-          On the Archive Course page under Select Copy Options, select Include Grade Center History. -    Click Submit.

   

Note:  The archived course is saved in a zip and may take some time to be processed.  An email will be sent when the process is completed.

-         Click the Archive File link to download to your computer or click the chevron near the file name and select open.

Make your courses unavailable:

If you no longer want students to access the course after the end of semester, please make your course unavailable through Control Panel-Customization-Properties-Set Availability – No-Submit

 Note: The gray bar at the top of the course will let you now that the course is unavailable to students.