If you are a department or adviser looking for a new way to maintain communication with your constituents, we are pleased to offer Blackboard Organizations populated with the students for every College, Department, and Major in OASIS Banner. We’ve set up an automatic process that reads students College, Department, and Major codes from Banner and adds them as members of corresponding organizations in Blackboard. The lists are maintained so that as students change majors or graduate, they are added and removed from the organizations, ensuring your organization roster remains current.
These sites are full-fledged Blackboard sites. They are very useful for sending email to the students you advise, and can also be used to make available departmental documents such as program requirements, graduation applications, course authorization request forms, and any other departmental paperwork you maintain. A discussion board is available to foster communication amongst your charges. File uploads, announcements, surveys, everything you can do in a Blackboard course you can do here.
We have four levels of organizations available:
Majors: For every major code in OASIS we create an Organization, and populate it with students that have that major code. These would be most appropriate for advisers and chairs.
Departments: For every department listed in OASIS, we create another Blackboard organization. In many cases, there is a one to one relation between majors and departments, ie, a department only offers one major, but there are many cases there a department offers multiple majors. In those cases, a Departmental organization would be convenient for communicating with all the majors in that department at one time.
Colleges: For each college in OASIS, we create yet another Blackboard organization. These are collections of departments, and are appropriate for the Dean’s office of each college.
Lastly, we create three flavors of each of the above organizations
one with just undergrad students
one with just grad students
one that combines both grad and undergrad students
By default, these organization sites are invisible to students until a department takes ownership and makes it available.
If you or your college or department is interested in one or more of these organizations, please contact us.