Registrar Form: Brightspace Section Consolidation Request

Registrar Form: Brightspace Section Consolidation Request

Courses should not be merged once the semester has started. Merging a course once the class has started will cause the content to remain in the individual classes and the Master class will be empty. Also, if the individual classes contains any student submissions, they will be lost.

• Faculty may use this form to request a consolidation of multiple Banner course sections to be merged into one Brightspace shell.
• Only the instructor listed in Banner may request to have courses combined in Brightspace. If multiple instructors are involved, contact your Dean before submitting this form.
• This form will be sent to your Dean for approval. If approved, it will be forwarded to Registrar to process.
• A copy of this form will be sent to the person completing the form. It will be sent from the "webmaster@sunypoly.edu" e-mail address.
• Once students have access to the Brightspace shell, the sections cannot be separated.
• ALL FIELDS ARE REQUIRED.

Name * Required
First Last
SUNY Poly Email Address * Required
My Dean is: * Required
- College of Arts & Sciences - Dr. Carlie Phipps
- College of Engineering - Dr. Michael Carpenter
- College of Health Sciences - Dr. Joanne Joseph
- College of Business Management - Dr. Arthur Lu
What term and year are the courses to be merged being offered? (e.g., spring 2023, fall 2023, etc.)? * Required
Reason for requesting a consolidated Brightspace shell * Required
Courses to Consolidate in BlackBoard - Click the "+" icon to get an additional row. ALL FIELDS ARE REQUIRED. * Required
If you do not know your CRN or section numbers, please refer to your personal schedule available in BannerWeb.
CRN Course Subject and Number (e.g., COM 200, PHY 101T, etc.) Section (e.g., 01, 01A, 11, 35H, 35W etc.)
Course Format:
- In-class/on campus
- Hybrid
- Online/Asynchronous
- Online/Synchronous
- Hyflex
- By Appointment
Notes:
- This request will be forwarded to your Dean for approval.
- If your Dean approves the request, s/he will forward the information to Registrar to update the information in Banner. This is done manually.
- Once Banner is updated, the update process (which runs daily at 6am, 12pm, and 5pm ET) will create the master course in BlackBoard and will connect the requested sections. The master course is empty when it is created. The content from the connected sections will need to be copied into the master course. Discussion posts are copied into the master course as ANONYMOUS.
- Once students have access to the merged Brightspace course, you cannot decouple the sections.
- If you decide that you wish to decouple the sections before the start of the term, please send an email to registrar@sunypoly.edu with all of the pertinent section information (department, number, section, CRN).
Instructor Authorization * Required
I am the instructor of all of the sections listed above OR (in the event of multiple instructors) all instructors of the listed sections have agreed to the requested Brightspace merge.
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