All Fall 2004 courses have been loaded into the Blackboard system. If you have been associated with a course for the fall semester in BOSS, that course will now be listed after you log in to Blackboard. Student rosters have also been loaded. To request course recycles or combinations (joining together several sections to allow faculty to post in one course site rather than several) please use the on-line form at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/blackboard/faculty/recycling.html . If your courses are not listed on Blackboard, it is very likely that you are not the official instructor on the BOSS system yet. Currently, about 300 courses have not yet been assigned an instructor in BOSS. Please check with your department chair to confirm that your teaching assignment has been submitted to the Registrar's Office. The Blackboard system will not assign the course to you until an entry exists on BOSS. 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 are posted at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/training/faculty_training.html and new workshops will be added next week. 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 Jim Russell, Director of Instructional Technology Baruch College, 1 Bernard Baruch Way, H-0910 New York, NY 10010 v: (646) 312-4895 f: (646) 312-1021 [log in to unmask]