Course Builder

The Course Builder role has access to most areas of the Control Panel. This role is appropriate for a user to
manage the course without having access to Student grades.

Course Builders have access to the following areas of the Control Panel:

• Content Areas such as Information, Content, etc
• Calendar
• Contacts
• Tasks
• Settings
• Import Course Cartridge
• Import Package
• Resources
• Course Copy
• Export Course
• List Users
• Discussion Boards
• Send email
• Collaboration
• Manage Groups
• Tests, Surveys, and Pools
• Blogs, Journals, and Wikis

Course Builders do not have access to Student grades.

Grader

A Grader assists the Instructor in the creation, management, delivery, and grading of Assessments. A
Grader also assists the Instructor with managing the Gradebook.

Graders have access to the following:

• Announcements
• Calendar
• List Users
• Tests, Surveys, and Pools
• Grade Center and views
• Course Statistics

Guest

Users with the role of Guest have no access to the Control Panel. Areas within the course can be made
available to Guests.

Visitors such as prospective students, alumni or parents may be given the role of Guest.

Instructor

Instructors have access to all areas in the Control Panel. This role is generally given to those developing,
teaching or facilitating the class. Instructors may still access a course that is unavailable to Students.

Student

Student is the default Course Role. Students have no access to any areas on the Control Panel.

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistants have access to most features. If the course is unavailable to Students, Teaching
Assistants may still access the course. Teaching Assistants are not listed in the Course Catalog listing for
the course.

The site for suggestions is:  http://suggestions.blackboard.com/

Blackboard also has a couple of programs where they actively solicit input from their clients. A number of community groups and the like are available from here: http://connections.blackboard.com.

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VCCS-Outage List

This list receives all miscellaneous planned outages and service interruptions of production and non-production systems  such as Blackboard, Student Email, SIS.

To subscribe:  https://lists.vccs.edu/lists/listinfo/vccs-outages

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For those instructors who prefer to have a different course entry point (the default from the TNCC template is ‘Announcements’ )they may do this easily by changing the entry point.

1. In the Control Panel, select Customization and Style.
2. Go to the Select Course Entry Point and change the Entry Point to Announcements, click Submit.
3. Go back to the Course Menu and Hide or Delete the link for the Home Page by clicking the down arrow next to it and select the appropriate action.