Friday, August 05, 2005

Students Loaded into Bb6!

I will begin loading students into FA05 courses on Monday and continue loading daily until the end of the Add period. As always I load but do not "drop". Please monitor you SIS lists!
-Ruth

Posted on Friday, August 05, 2005 - 6:17 pm:

We are pleased to announce that users (staff, faculty, and students) along with their primary and secondary roles have been successfully loaded in Blackboard 6 (learn.vccs.edu). One item to note is that students are active and enabled in learn.vccs.edu. Initially we said that they would be disabled, but we have discovered that as disabled, you would not be able to enroll them into your courses. If this poses a problem/challenge for you or your college, please let us know.

A couple items to note. Updates are passed from directory services to Blackboard twice daily, with the update process finishing at about 3:00 AM and 3:00 PM. Currently, password changes are only being passed to Blackboard according to this update schedule, but by go-live on Aug. 15, password updates will be real-time.

Additionally, if you are wondering why you have role "X" or don’t have role "Y", early next week we will provide detailed documentation as to the processes and algorithms for assigning primary and secondary roles.

David, Sue Ann, and Matt

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Okay, I'm confused. I have two classes (ITP 112 and ITP 132) and don't see students in either class.

Ruth said...

The "utility" in Richmond upload all 100,000 + students in the VCCS into the new system. Now that the students are in the system, I can enroll them in Thomas Nelson Classes. I will begin this process on Monday.... so, hopefully if all goes well, you will see your courses populated Monday afternoon.