 Go to the Blackboard Course Request online form. 
You will receive a confirmation and helpful instructions within 48-72hrs.
Course Default Settings:
A Blackboard course site is created with standard default course settings including:
- Course is "unavailable" to enrolled students upon creation.
- Does NOT allow guest access.
- The entry point to your course is set to the "Announcements" page.
- Eight Blackboard areas and corresponding navigation buttons with the option to add a ninth.
View how to change these settings at:
https://www.cmu.edu/blackboard/how-to/setup.shtml#settings.
Blackboard Course Lifecycle:
Availability of Blackboard courses beyond the semester:
Beyond the semester taught, Blackboard course sites remain on the Blackboard server (but are unavailable to students unless the instructor chooses to grant continuing access) until shortly before the beginning of the same term of the following year. For example:
- Course F04-45810 will remain on the Blackboard server until the beginning of the fall 2005 semester
- Course S05-70311 will remain on the Blackboard server until the beginning of the spring 2006 term
- Course M04-45842 will remain on the Blackboard server until the beginning of the summer 2006 semester
The instructor can grant continued access to the entire class (i.e., course availability to ALL the students enrolled in the course). Refer to how to make course available.
If there are only certain students (e.g., students trying to make up incomplete grades) who require continued access, faculty can arrange this by sending email to bb-help@andrew.cmu.edu or call Blackboard Support at x8-9090.
Issues associated with course availability to students beyond the semester:
- Students will be able to make changes in the Blackboard course (Discussion Boards, Dropboxes, etc.)
Note: It is up to the instructor to retain/back up any changes made to a Blackboard course beyond the semester taught. See instructions on how to back up a course site.
- The course will continue to appear on students' "My Blackboard" page along with their current classes.
Backing up Blackboard courses at the end of semester:
At the end of each semester, the Office of Technology for Education creates a back-up copy of the Blackboard courses taught that semester. A copy can be provided to the instructor upon request. Note: It is up to the instructor to retain/back up any changes made to a Blackboard course beyond the semester taught. See instructions on how to back up a course site.
Blackboard course components not archived during the back-up process include:
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