Adapting James M. Lang’s advice for How to Teach a Good First Day of Class, here are 4 quick reasons why this can help your students:
When you request your course in Blackboard, you can specify a date when you would like the course to open to students. Once that date is set, you can still change it with the new Course Availability Settings tool. You can access the Course Availability Settings in 3 locations:
There is a fourth consideration that is more for the institution than for faculty: the possibility of outside agencies in the future conducting audits of past classes run in legacy systems.
With the closure of Blackboard and Moodle (“legacy systems”) on June 30, 2018, faculty should consider their obligations and needs regarding the class content and student records that those systems have contained. Here are three primary considerations for faculty: