To preview or utilize a Blackboard online master course, go to the HCC Blackboard web site: http://hccs.blackboard.com and type in the same User ID and Password used to access all password protected DE faculty web pages.

Note: If you don't know the DE faculty ID and password, contact your college IDC (see list below).

How to Utilize a Master Course:

All the master courses in Blackboard are or will be saved as templates at the institution level.

The following are the instructions on how to associate and utilize master course templates for use in your blank Blackboard sections:

1. Get a Blackboard course and a blank section - If you teach a DE class, PeopleSoft will generate a course section for you. For hybrid classes, please contact the Blackboard administrator or IDC at your college (listed below) to create a Blackboard course and a blank section in your sandbox without assigning any content or template to it. You need to have the course level access.
   
   
2. Associate the master course template - You can access the master course templates by going to MyBlackboard, clicking on Content Manager and clicking on the Template Manager button (anyone with course level privileges and above should have this button). If you are only at the "section level" and you don't see the Template Manager button under your Content Manager, please contact the Blackboard administrator or IDC at your college (listed below) to create a course and reset you at the course level access.

Under Template Manager:

• Click on the course name on the left where you want to adopt the master course template.
• This course name will appear on the upper part of the screen. Click on action links by the course name, and select "View/Manage Associated Templates".
• A button called "Associate Templates" will appear. Click on this button.
• A window appears with a list of all the available templates.
• Check the checkbox next to the template you want to adopt, then click the Select button at the bottom.
• Now you are back to the Associate Templates screen with your selected template. Click the Done button.

You have now finished the task of associating the master course template to your blank course.

3. Adopt the master course template

• Click My Blackboard.
• Click on the blank section to which you plan to adopt the master course.
• This is the first time you will go into the section. A window will pop up to ask you whether to set up a blank course, to copy content from another course, assign a template, or to have another choice. Select the third choice "Assign a template to this course," then click Continue.
• You will now be at the Template Manager screen. Select the template you want. You will then be in the course with all the master course content in it.

IDC Contact Information

CE - Charlotte Hamilton, ext. 86087, MC 1229, charlotte.hamilton@hccs.edu
NE - Linda Comte, ext. 88046, MC 1433, linda.comte@hccs.edu
NW - Tom Haymes, ext. 85813, MC 1396, tom.haymes@hccs.edu
SE - Sandra Lebron, ext. 87110, MC 1638, sandra.lebron@hccs.edu
CO - Ernest Reynolds, ext. 87308, MC 1637-H290, ernest.reynolds@hccs.edu
SW - Doug Rowlett, ext. 86768, MC 1585B, doug.rowlett@hccs.edu

Blackboard Administrator Contact Information

CE - Ruben Duran, ext. 86272, MC 1229, ruben.duran@hccs.edu
NW - Jordan Carswell, ext. 85769, MC 1396, jordan.carswell@hccs.edu
SW - Harold Scott, ext. 86765, MC 1585B, harold.scott@hccs.edu
NE - Javier Mora, MC 1432, javier.mora@hccs.edu
SE - Tony Davila, ext. 88746, MC 1111B, jose.davila@hccs.edu
Coleman - Jesus Martinez, ext. 87243, MC1638, jesus.martinez@hccs.edu
DE - Doug Sutherland, Ramiro Chapa, Feliciano Arrazolo, MC 1740, doug.sutherland@hccs.edu, ramiro.chapa@hccs.edu, feliciano.arrazolo@hccs.edu