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.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Hello,
I am currently the assistant graduate adviser and I am also going to teach this Spring. Therefore it would be extremely helpful to have a listing of students who are undergraduate majors and minors in AFA Department and also the graduate students in AFA. I would prefer that the listing would be separate for undergraduates and graduate students. I like the fact that this listing would be updated. This would provide me the ability to adress certain information that would be of extreme importance in regards to their major or minor, including activities.
I would appreciate if you would let me know when this will take effect.
Thank You,
Cynthia smith
December 11th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Please email this request to help@usf.edu . All such requests for organizations should send an email where it will be answered promptly.
Thanks, Glen
September 7th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
[…] Last year we released the ability for departments and advisers to communicate with your constituents. We’ve greatly expanded the options for how those sites can be automatically populated with students. In particular, we can now identify students based on: - Their College, department, major, concentration, or degree code - Their education level (Freshmen, Sophomore, Undergrad, Grad, etc.) - Their home campus - By Course SubjectName, CourseNumber, or section (i.e. LAE, 4414, or 001) […]
November 19th, 2009 at 9:12 am
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