{"id":1193,"date":"2017-01-23T13:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spsfaculty.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2017-01-23T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:04:03","slug":"making-new-semester-prep-easy-with-date-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/sps-faculty-community-hub\/2017\/01\/23\/making-new-semester-prep-easy-with-date-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Making New Semester Prep Easy With Date Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most important bits of bookkeeping we all have to do before the beginning of a new semester is to update all of the due dates, availability dates, and adaptive release dates in our Blackboard courses. Fortunately, Blackboard has a tool expressly for this purpose — Date Management<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"date<\/a>To access the Date Management tool in your course site, scroll down to the Control Panel<\/em> underneath your course menu, click on Course Tools<\/em>, and then Date Management<\/em>. Here, you will have the option to change all the due dates and availability dates in your course based on either the semester start date, or by a fixed number of days.<\/p>\n

First, you might want to see a list all the dates in your course for review on one screen, which you can also do from this page. This is a great option particularly if you are inheriting an existing course because you can see which announcements, assignments, tests, or folders have dates associated with them and whether these are due dates, availability dates, or adaptive release dates.<\/p>\n

To return to the options on the initial screen, click \u201cRun Date Management Again\u201d in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Here, \u00a0you can now shift all<\/strong> the dates in your course based on the semester start date or by a fixed number of days. This might require a little arithmetic. For example, Fall 2016 began on a Thursday but Spring 2017 classes begin on a Monday. You can adjust all of the dates in your Spring 2017 live site at once using the course start date, but might have to adjust some dates back or ahead to have due dates for assignments follow the day\/week system most instructors use at SPS (ex., Test 1 due Sunday of Week 1, Test 2 due Sunday of Week 2, and so on.)<\/p>\n

Luckily the Date Management Tool has the flexibility to let you adjust each date individually, to select a group of items to adjust by the same amount, or to adjust all dates in the course at once.<\/span><\/p>\n

To learn more about this tool, see Blackboard’s Help page<\/a> on using Date Management\u00a0<\/span>and there are a number of videos on YouTube that explain it quite well, including<\/span> this very short video from the Center for Innovation & Technology at Northern Kentucky University<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>this recording of a webinar on Date Management from the University of Miami<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We hope this tool will lighten some of the pre-semester work in your course sites. Please email us<\/a> if you have any questions about Date Management, or any other Blackboard tool while preparing your course sites for the upcoming semester.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to working with you,
\nAntonia & Krystyna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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