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Use the Self-Service page


The Blackboard Self-Service page allows faculty to create three types of Blackboard courses:

  1. Single-section Blackboard courses (used for a single section of a particular course, e.g., English 101, section A02).
  2. Combined courses (used to accommodate cross-listed undergraduate and graduate courses, and to support a unified Blackboard presence for several sections of the same course, e.g., English 101, sections A03, A05, and A06).
  3. Temporary courses (used when the real course is not yet listed in SIS).

You should create a new course each quarter. Do not re-use a previous quarter's Blackboard course. If you have content in a course from a previous quarter, you can copy it into your current course.

Changes requested through the Self-Service page will be executed at 5:00 AM the following business day.