Course Creation

• Courses are created in Blackboard twice a day based upon information in SIS.
• Courses are never disabled at the VCCS level, but are created as unavailable to students by default.

Faculty Enrollments

• Instructors are updated every four hours.

Student Enrollments

• Students are added every four hours and synchronized overnight.

  What that means: When a student enrolls into a course in SIS, the student is added to the course in Blackboard within a four hour time period.  If that student were to enroll in a course the day before classes begins and didn’t pay, when the data for all of SIS is synchronized overnight that student would be disabled from course access, since enrollment and financials would not be aligned.

Student Withdrawals/Drops

• When a student withdraws or drops a class in SIS, their access to the course in Blackboard is disabled during the next overnight synch. This cannot currently be overridden by college Bb admins.
• An IssueTrak ticket must be submitted to the VCCS ITS to request access. Otherwise, once a student’s status is changed in SIS, it will appear in Bb after the next Bb -SIS synch.

Access to Withdrawn/Dropped Student Data

• Discussion board posts are still visible.
• GradeCenter information is available to the instructor through the Grade History feature.
• Withdrawn/Dropped students will not appear in the GradeCenter.
• Assignments turned in via the Assignment Tool are no longer available.
• Withdrawn/Dropped student statistical data can be found if a Bb admin or instructor sets the User filter to ‘All Users.’
• Searching by ‘Selected Users’ in the list, the withdrawn/dropped student’s name will not appear as a selection.

Manual Faculty Adds

• If a faculty member is manually added to a course in Blackboard as an instructor, they will not be disabled during the Bb-SIS synch, even if the instructor is no longer listed as the instructor in SIS.

Manual Student Adds

Students who are manually enrolled into courses will not be disabled during the Bb- SIS synch even if they have been dropped or withdrawn from the course in SIS.  For this reason, beginning with the Spring 2010 semester,  TNCC does not manually enroll students.