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Blackboard Programme Courses

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You can request a Blackboard Programme Course to hold programme level information and communication. Students can be auto-enrolled and the course will appear under a separate heading on the Blackboard Home page. A Programme Course does not hold any assessment data.

How are students enrolled on a Programme Course? 

  • Staff and students can be auto-enrolled onto Programme Courses via their Banner,  programme codes. When you request the course*, include the programme codes, and years, that will be associated with the Programme Course, and we will set up auto-enrolment. The enrolment feed will be updated daily to match programme enrolments in Banner.  
  • Course set-up and enrolments will suit your programme delivery and your definition of a “Programme”. In some areas, one course can be set up for all students in a department, or you could have separate courses for particular groups of programmes, year groups etc.  
  • The course name and ID will not contain a year – the course will not need to roll over each year. New students will be enrolled on the course via the enrolment feed from Banner & old enrolments will be dropped.

What is a Programme Course for? 

A Programme Course is part of the Academic Transitions Support Toolkit and can support Programme. See the CHEP Resouces Hub to view case studies and guidance on how a Programme Course can be used.

  • A Programme course helps to give your programme an identity and sense of community. 
  • Course Announcements & emails can be used for communication with the programme cohort. 
  • Use Blackboard collaboration tools such as Discussion Boards and Collaborate.
  • With the new Blackboard/Teams integration tool you can create a Team directly from your Blackboard course and the Team enrolments will stay in sync.
  • The course can be a place to gather the information that is otherwise repeated in module courses, on Faculty Hubs (programme specific), delivered via other arbitrary courses, or sent via email attachments.  
  • Some suggested content areas could include: 
    • Induction 
    • Careers/employability 
    • Staff Information 
    • Links to related societies and student reps 
    • Assessment information 
    • Sources of help and support 
    • Study skills
    • Events 
    • Key dates 
  • A Programme course should be used to deliver teaching or assessment. Please contact ServiceLine if you feel you need to set up a non-Banner course for teaching purposes. You can also merge separate Banner module courses into a single Blackboard teaching course, please see this guide.  

How will a Programme Course appear on the Blackboard Home page? 

  • The course will appear under a separate heading “Programme Information” on the Blackboard Home page.
  • Course ID will start with PROG-. 
  • You can define the course name to suit the programme.
  • If you are in the All Courses view, Programme Courses are listed under the Term – Programme Information. To group your Courses list by Term see this guide.

We already have an arbitrary course for programme information – can we set up an auto-enrolment & Home Page listing? 

Many areas already have an arbitrary Blackboard course set up to deliver Programme information. 

  • Request a Programme Course using the app in the next section. You will then be able to roll the content of your existing arbitrary course into the new Programme Course. Open a ServiceLine ticket if you would like to speak to Blackboard/Education Application Support about this first.

Request a Programme Course

  • Follow this link to our Programme Course app
  • Use the app to specify the Blackboard Programme Course title and ID.
  • Select your faculty and school to display a list or programme codes associated with your school.
  • Select the programme codes you would like to be included in the Blackboard course enrolments. Use the filter to sort by level and year group (part).
  • Use the > arrow to move the selected codes to the Included column.
  • Select Submit – this will send a ServiceLine ticket to iSoluitons. We will be in touch with you via the ticket to let you know when your course has been created.

Programme course – design guides

Course Banner

The programme course template comes with a course banner. If you want to change or edit the banner, you can download this template (includes instructions on saving and uploading a new course banner image). Programme course – banner template

 

Customise the My Courses list

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You can choose to show or hide courses in the My Courses list and group the list by Term.

Note: doing this does not remove you from the course, it simply hides it from your list of courses in the My Courses box.

Find the My Courses list

Your full courses list is found in the Courses view of Blackboard. You cannot alter the view of courses on Blackboard Home.

How to navigate to My Courses settings

  • If you are on Blackboard Home, go to the Blackboard Courses view.
  • Select the Manage My Courses cog/ icon that appears when you hover over the My Courses box.

Group by Term

Term display options

 

  • Select to Group by Term. This will group courses by academic year or course type. (some course types do not have a year term – for example Training Courses)
  • Tick/un-tick Show Term to show or hide courses listed in particular Terms.
  • You can change the displayed order that the Terms appear in by clicking and dragging on the up and down arrow icon beside the Term.
  • Select Submit when done.

 

Expand or collapse the term list

  • You can expand and collapse Terms to show or hide courses.

Edit the Course List

Customising

  • Cutomise how and if individual courses appear in the My Courses list.

Display Course
Selecting this option will show the course in your My Courses list. You can use this to hide courses you no longer wish to see in your My Courses listing. If you completely hide a course it will no longer appear in the Calendar as a selectable course.

Display Course ID
Selecting this option will show the course id (e.g. unit code) for the course in your My Courses list. If you completely hide a course it will no longer appear in the Calendar as a selectable course.

Display Instructors
Selecting this option will show tutors who are listed as Instructors on the course. Take the ticks out of the boxes if you do not wish to show the listed instructors in the My Courses list.

Display Announcements
Selecting this option will show announcements for the course in your My Courses list. Take the ticks out of the boxes if you do not wish announcements to be shown within the My Courses list. If you do not want to recieve Notifications from a particular course see this guide on How to configure Blackboard notifications

Display Tasks
Selecting this option will show any tasks for the course in your My Courses list.

Reordering courses

  • You can change the displayed order of courses by clicking and dragging on the up and down arrow icon beside the course you wish to move.
  • Scroll to the bottom of the page and select Submit to finish.