Loading Blackboard Sections into Moodle
Setting Up Moodle at Semester Startup
There are some points to note regarding Moodle on startup:
- Cannot use LDAP to use existing students password (students required to change a generic password)
- Provide Kevin Pitts Course section information with downloaded Blackboard Grades List.
Obtaining Grades List via Blackboard
Here are the steps to obtain a grades list in Blackboard (this should be performed at the beginning of each semester):
- Launch a web-browser, and connect to Blackboard ( http://my.senecacollege.ca ).
- Log into your Blackboard account with your Mercury e-mail username and password.
- Select a current subject you are leading.
- Click the Evaluation link on the left-hand menu bar.
- Click the Grade Center sub-menu link with in the Evaluation menu.
- The grade center window for a that particular course will appear.
- Click the list box icon on the Work Offline button (located near the upper right-hand side of the grade center window.
- Select the Download link in the Work Offline menu.
- The Download Grades window will appear.
- You can accept all defaults (including tab delimiter), and then click the Submit button.
- Another Download window will appear.
- Click on the Download button and select (and note) the location to where to save the xls spreadsheet file.
- Repeat steps 3 to