All Spring 2006 courses have been loaded into the updated CUNY Blackboard 
6.3 System.  If you have been associated with a course for the spring 
semester, that course will now be listed after you log in to CUNY 
Blackboard. Student rosters have also been loaded.

CUNY Blackboard can only be accessed through the CUNY Portal at 
http://www.cuny.edu.  If you have not yet registered for the CUNY Portal, 
please review the information at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cunyportal/ .

CUNY has installed an upgrade for Blackboard. In case you find it confusing 
and want some basic information about the changes (including how to restore 
the familiar look), please see: 
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/blackboard/faculty/blackboard6/bb6intro.htm 
.

Faculty can recycle their course content from earlier semesters themselves 
by reviewing the directions at 
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/blackboard/faculty/blackboard6/copycourse.ht
m .  

Blackboard includes faculty control over course merges (combining several 
sections or rosters into one Blackboard course site).  Information on this 
feature may be found at 
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/blackboard/faculty/blackboard6/merge.htm .

If your courses are not listed on Blackboard, it is very likely that you 
are not identified as the official instructor of the course yet.  Please 
check with your department chair to confirm that your teaching assignment 
has been submitted to the Registrar's Office and to Human Resources.

All courses are created as "Unavailable".  This means that the instructor 
can see the course, but students cannot.  Information on how to make the 
course available to enrolled students may be found at 
http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/teaching/availability.htm .

Training workshops will be posted at 
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/training/faculty_training.html later 
today.  In addition, departmental chairs or groups of faculty may request 
group instruction by contacting me directly.

For general questions about the system, please contact the BCTC Help Desk 
at (646) 312-1010.

Jim Russell
Director of Instructional Technology
Baruch College, 1 Bernard Baruch Way, H-0910
New York, NY 10010
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