{"id":11849,"date":"2020-08-20T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/citl\/?page_id=11849"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:21:28","slug":"lms-combine-request","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/citl\/lms-combine-request\/","title":{"rendered":"LMS Course Shell Combine Request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
**UPDATED Jan 2023
\n<\/strong><\/span>It is advised that if an instructor wants a single course shell for distinct course (Mainestreet) sections, they should be coded as “cross-listed” on Mainestreet. The Office of Student Records has requested that CITL not combine sections manually in Brightspace, as doing so may lead to FERPA violations; details on this issue are available on the OSR FERPA page<\/a>. If your department requests that the sections be cross-listed on Mainestreet then MaineStreet will automatically create a combined Brightspace course shell. If the above option is not available, there are three options on the Brightspace side:<\/em><\/p>\n
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  1. Keep two separate course shells and use the “copy components” feature to transfer course information from one course shell to the other. You can find our tutorial on how to do this here:\u00a0How to import and copy items into a course<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. CITL can combine the course shells in Brightspace but we will have to turn off certain tools and features to avoid students seeing each other on the classlist. This would include features such as Classlist on navbar, Discussions, email address book, etc. If you were planning on using the discussion feature for the course then this option would not work. It also may make things like group work a bit more difficult if students are used to finding their classmates’ names and\/or emails from the classlist to contact each other as they won’t have access to that.<\/li>\n
  3. CITL can combine the course shells in Brightspace but we must turn on the Brightspace “Sections” feature. With this option, students would have to be manually added to each Brightspace Section (feature). Since this feature is not connected to Mainestreet enrollment, during the add\/drop period, students would have to be manually updated in their Brightspace Sections (feature) which may be a tedious task if it’s a larger enrollment course. *Instructor is responsible for maintaining and updating the Brightspace Sections feature enrollments<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    With the understanding of the above, if you still decide to request the course shells combined, you must agree and select one of the options above in order to submit the request.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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