A supersection is when you combine two or more Blackboard courses. Using Using the Blackboard Learn Section Maintenance tool in MyBama, instructors of record can combine courses to be more efficient. Often cross-listed courses, individual sections, or lab sections are combined.
How are Blackboard supersections made?
Instructors canmerge Blackboard sections together with the Blackboard Learn Section Maintenance tool in myBama.
Instructors can request that CIT merge sections with more than one instructor. CIT will ask for all instructors to send email permission for this process.
The managing department, like UA Online, will merge sections together per instructions from an instructor or a department.
What happens when
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a sections are combined into a supersection?
When you combine your courses are combined into a supersection, you create a new shell course is created in which you can add content. Blackboard calls the supersection a “Parent Course.”
A supersection course name looks like this in Blackboard: 202240 202410-SS-CIT-100-001-CIT-100-002
The individual sections, or “child courses”, contain the enrollment for the supersection. Instructors cannot add content to these sections. Your students will still access the individual courses but will see content from the supersection.
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Guidelines for combining courses
Courses that cannot be combinedDo NOT combine courses that match any of the following:
Courses with overlapping enrollment, such as labs/recitation and lectures.
Courses containing student data/submissions. Student work that has been completed does not transfer to the newly created supersection.
Courses with content. The supersection will not retain the content when merged with the Section Maintenance Tool. Contact CIT to transfer course content.
Courses that are coded OL (Online - DL/Gadsden Students) with any sections not coded as OL.
Rationale: In order to maintain compliance with accreditation standards and U.S. Department of Education regulations, Main Campus programs must offer at least 50% of instruction face-to-face. If it is possible for a student to acquire a degree or certificate with 50% or more of instruction by distance, then the program is a distance program and subject to approvals by the UA Board of Trustees, the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, and SACSCOC. Additionally, F-1 or J-1 students are subject to strict requirements regarding online instruction, i.e. no online classes for J-1 students and only one three-credit hour course per semester for F-1 students.
What happens when a student drops a course included in a supersection?
Enrollments continue to sync with Banner, so if . If anyone drops or adds, they will do so in Blackboardthe Blackboard course roster will match the Banner roster.
Can instructors still import grades into myBama from a supersection?
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