Western Blackboard

DO NOT FILL OUT THIS FORM FOR IDL/ITV CLASSES - combinations have been taken care of for those classes.

Fill out the form below to combine multiple class sections into a single Blackboard class.  The To (Desintation) section will effectively become the master section - all of your students for a particular class at Western will be enrolled into this Blackboard class.  The From (Source) course(s) are the courses that will be combined into the destination course.  For example, let's say you are teaching three face-to-face sections of Written Communications.  A section will be created for each class in PowerCampus thus a Blackboard class will be created for each section.  In order to avoid maintaining all of these Blackboard classes you might want to combine all sections into one class on Blackboard.

Specifically, the course information coming from PowerCampus looks something like this

Class Catalog Number Section Number
Written Communications 10801195 0101
Written Communications 10801195 0102
Written Communications 10801195 0103

Pick one of the classes, say section 0101.  That section will become the master section that you ultimately use in Blackboard (the To or Destination).  The remaining classes, sections 0102 and 0103 will become the From or Source sections.  All students enrolled in the From classes will be enrolled in the TO class (section 0101).  Section 0101 is the class that you will populate and maintain in Blackboard, you can ignore the others.

The Catalog Number is the number everyone uses to reference the course.  This is a 8 digit number - it is always exactly 8 digits - eight digits (10801195). The revision number is no longer necessary.

The Section number is a reference to the class being taught.  It is always exactly four digits.

Year
2022
2023
2024
Term
Spring
Summer
Fall
Catalog
Number

Exactly 8 digits
It will look something like 10801195
FROM (source) Section Number
 


            
Exactly four numbers - combine up to five sections into one Blackboard class (below)
It will look something like 0103

This can be found in the on the class roster. In other words, take all of the students in these sections and enroll them in a different Blackboard section (the master section you will enter below).
TO
MASTER
(Destination)
Section Number
   
Exactly four numbers
It will look something like 0101

This can be found on the class roster. The number entered here represents the section number of the Blackboard class that you want to use for multiple sections.   In other words, take all of the students in the sections listed in the from entry (above) and put them into this (To) Blackboard class/section

If you have questions, please send an email to bibbyp@westerntc.edu