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Blackboard Manager - Merging Multiple Sections
Below is an overview of merging in Blackboard Manager.
Merging Multiple Sections:
To Log into Blackboard Manager follow these steps:
- Blackboard Manager login - BB Manager
- On the Blackboard Institution Page select Bb Manager (Instructors Only) – to merge courses
- On the right, click Sign in > Blackboard Manager
- When in Blackboard Manager, click top right Login > use your Bison Login to log in
- Click on the Course Merge Wizard on the left menu
- Select the correct term, Merge courses for the term, and Next.
- Courses where you are listed as the instructor in Campus Connection for the selected term appear for you to merge.
- In the “Master course name” field, type a name for the master/parent course. The suggested format includes the: term, dept. acronym, course number, course title and “Parent”. Students do not see this title -- they see the course title as it appears in Campus Connection.
- Naming Example: Fall 2019: CHEM 101 – Introduction to Chemistry – Parent
- IMPORTANT: a new course ID will be created, you must remember this number if you want to retrieve the course content from the archives. This new number can only be found for 1 year and is not recorded for future reference, you must keep it.
New Course ID Example: NDSU1-2410-P-57418
- Check the boxes to the left of each course section to be merged.
- Click Next.
- The Course Wizard: Validation page, review your course merge selections, if correct Submit it not Cancel and start over.
- Log out