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Complete These End-of-Semester Activities for Course Management
Posted December 11, 2024
by IDLT
As the term nears completion, the following tips will be useful for faculty in wrapping up their courses.
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Check your Grade Center Total and/or Weighted Total column(s) to be sure they are set up to calculate correctly. The Mercer University Online Weighted Average Grade Calculator is a useful tool for checking your Weighted Total calculations. If you find errors and need assistance, please contact ITS at 618-650-5500 or at help@siue.edu for assistance.
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Make sure your final grade column (i.e. Total or Weighted Total) is set as the External Grade Column .
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Download a copy of your Grade Center at the end of the term for your records.
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Download copies of student Assignments and Turnitin Assignment submissions for your records.
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Export the course to keep a copy for importing into future courses. Under ITS' 5+1 retention policy , only course shells from the five previous semesters as well as the current semester are kept in Bb. Course shells outside of 5+1 will be removed at the start of spring, summer, and fall semesters. Faculty are responsible for downloading and keeping copies of older course shells. No backups of deleted courses will be retained by ITS.
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If you are teaching multiple sections of the same course next semester and want them to be in one Blackboard shell, get a head start and Request a Merged Course .
For assistance with building your course, contact a member of the ITS Instructional Design & Learning Technologies team. Additional resources including an accessible syllabus template, course planning grid, and other items are also available from the IDLT Teaching Toolkit.
Contact ITS at 618-650-5500 or help@siue.edu for assistance. On-demand training on many learning technologies is available from the ITS Training Services Organization (navigate to myOrganizations>ITS Training Services) in Blackboard and IDLT Programs page. Overview and how-to articles on many learning technologies and University services are also available from the ITS KnowledgeBase .
