Teaching multiple sections.

Problem: A professor was teaching multiple sections of the same course, they were interested in combining the sections in Blackboard so that there was only one Blackboard course site to manage for all of the sections.

Solution: Instructors are able to merge their courses themselves through Blackboard. To do so they should go into the site in which they would like to manage from, or use for teaching. In the control panel, then should click on “Course Tools” > “Merge Course Enrollments”. (Screen shot of Merge Course Enrollments) In the “Instructor Course Merge Module” page, the instructor should click on the link for “Merge Section Enrollments Into this Course” From there it will have you create a name for the parent course and then select the courses or sections you would like to add to the parent course. All of the students will be copies from the child courses into the parent course going forward automatically. In the Grade Center of the parent (main) course, you can now see which original section the student was in before the merge as a reference.

Note: The merge function merges in the students from the child courses but does not merge or copy course material itself. You will need to post the course material you wish to distribute in the main parent course manually as you normally would, or use the course copy function to copy material from one course site to another as desired.