Timeline for Blackboard Courses
(Automated and Manual Processes)
Course Creation
Six weeks before instruction begins Blackboard course shells are automatically created for all courses that are properly footnoted (15 for web-enhanced, 17 for fully online, and 57 for multimode courses.) If you wish to footnote your course, contact your department office. The course creation ENDS after census date and then becomes a manual process per request. Courses are created unavailable and it is the instructor’s responsibility to make the course available for student access.
Instructor Assignment
Courses using Blackboard are automatically created with the instructor assignments generated through PeopleSoft. This process starts 6 weeks before instruction begins and ends after census date.
Student Enrollments
Two weeks before instruction begins, students who have a Fresno State email account are automatically enrolled in Blackboard courses. This process takes place on a daily basis and ENDS after census date and then becomes a manual process per request. Instructors may enroll students any time before or after census date. However, students added manually by the instructor who then drop the course will need to be manually dropped as well.
Student Un-enrollments
Students who drop a course in Blackboard will be un-enrolled 1 week after census date. For this reason your roster in PeopleSoft and Blackboard may be different. Your official roster is in PeopleSoft.
User Account Creation/Update
FACULTY accounts are automatically created when their first Blackboard course is properly footnoted (15, 17, or 57.)
STUDENT accounts are automatically created after they activate their Fresno State email by logging into their email account and once they officially enroll in a course using Blackboard.
Combining Courses on Blackboard
This process starts 2 weeks before instruction begins and ends after the first week of instruction. This is a permanent process that cannot be reversed. In order to combine courses, instructors must complete and sign a Combine Course Request Form: http://www.csufresno.edu/digitalcampus/faculty/combine_pros_cons.htm
Course Availability
It is the responsibility of the instructor to make courses available for student access. Control Panel > Course Options > Settings > Course Availability > Yes > Submit
Courses from the previous semester will be made unavailable two weeks before the next semester begins.
Instructor must make courses available each semester for student access
* census date: the last day to ADD CLASS with PERMISSION. Please refer to the current acadamic calendar.