Steps For Faculty Members To Merge Courses On Blackboard

STEP 1:
Log onto the CUNY Portal

STEP 2:
On the Right of the screen, you should see the following Module.
Click on the link “
Spring ’
09 Courses –Blackboard 8.0”
STEP 3:
Click on the “
Home”Tab on the upper left of the screen

STEP 4:
Scroll down until you see this Module, click on the link “
Click Here to Create and Manage Merged Courses”

STEP 5:
You should see the following information/steps.

STEP 6:
Click on “
Setup New Merged Course”
STEP 7:
On this page, you should see something similar to the screen caption below. You should see the courses that you are
teaching. For the purpose of this demonstration/instruction, we will use the following courses to show you how to use
this feature.

CCNY_TEST_COURSE_PARENT_A - CCNY_TEST_COURSE_CHILD_A - CCNY_TEST_COURSE_CHILD_B

Let’
s assume that CCNY_TEST_COURSE_PARENT_A is the course that you want as the main course sight. This course
will have all your material posted, in preparation to the coming semester ( ie: documents, syllabi, etc ) . The other
sections ( CCNY_TEST_COURSE_CHILD_A and CCNY_TEST_COURSE_CHILD_B ) are the courses to be merged to
CCNY_TEST_COURSE_PARENT_A. Here you will select ONLY the other sections to be merged.

IMPORTANT: Here is were you select the SLAVE/CHILD Course(s) ONLY !!!
STEP 8:
After selecting the course(s), click the ‘
Submit’button.
Here you would choose “ Make an Existing Course a Merged Course”

STEP 9:
On this page, you should see something similar to the screen caption below.
IMPORTANT: Here is were you select the MASTER/PARENT Course ONLY !!!
Now select CCNY_TEST_COURSE_PARENT_A from the list.
 After selecting the course(s), click the ‘
Submit’button.

STEP 10:
After you click ‘
Submit’
, you should see a pop-up windows asking you for confirmation. Click ‘
OK’
.
If you see this screen, you have completed the process of creating a Merged Course.