The document provides instructions for faculty to import an online template and their existing course content into a new course shell in Blackboard. It outlines an 8 step process to clean up the new course shell, download and import the online template, export and import the existing course content, and then verify and personalize the new course shell. The template is being implemented to streamline online course navigation for students across all classes.

1. Use the Online Template
Instructions to import the MCC online template
and your prepared course content
into a new course shell

2. Rationale
• The upcoming Madisonville Community College Quality Enhancement
Plan (QEP) will center around “online engagement.”
• After much research and discussion, one fact became clear – students
cannot begin to engage with our content if they cannot navigate to it
easily.
• Students with multiple online classes found every course had a
different navigation, resulting in frustration and time wasted on
learning the “system” rather than the content.
• In an effort to streamline our online course navigation for all classes,
this template was created in BlackBoard.

3. Follow the yellow brick road…

4. Overview
 Step 1: Clean up your new course shell.
 Step 2: Download the online template.
 Step 3: Import the online template into the new course shell.
 Step 4: Verify the online template import.
 Step 5: Export your old course.
 Step 6: Import your old course into the new course shell.
 Step 7: Verify the import and merge with the template.
 Step 8: Personalize your new course shell.
I’m ready,
let’s get started!
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5. Step 1: Clean Up Your New Course Shell
 Open your new course shell (the course that you are trying
to create for next semester).
 Delete all items EXCEPT the Home Page.
Delete these
Keep this

6. Step 2: Download the Online Template
 Go to the link provided to access the online template file.
 Download the Online Template zip.
 Save to your computer (remember where!).

7. Step 3: Import the Online Template
 Under the Control Panel, under Packages and Utilities,
choose “Import Package.”

8. Step 3: Import the Online Template
(cont.)
 Click “Import Package.”

9. Step 3: Import the Online Template
(cont.)
 Click “Browse My Computer” under Select a Package.
 Find the zip file of the Online Template that was previously
saved.
 Click “Select All” under Select Course Materials.
 Click “Submit” at the bottom right of the page.

10. Step 4: Verify the import
 Wait for an email from the Blackboard Administrator
stating that “the operation is complete.”
 Refresh the screen or go back into your new course and
verify that the import has occurred correctly.
 Check the Online Template format against the printed
document provided (or the photo at left) to make sure that
all links are still in the right location.

11. Step 5: Export your old course
 Go to your old course.
 Under the Control Panel, under Packages and Utilities,
choose “Export/Archive Course.”

12. Step 5: Export your old course
(cont.)
 Click “Export Package.”

13. Step 5: Export your old course
(cont.)
 Click “Select All” under Select Course Materials.
 Click “Submit” at the bottom right of the page.

14.  Wait for an email from the Blackboard Administrator
stating that “the operation is complete.”
 Refresh the screen or go back into your old course.
 Under the Control Panel, under Packages and Utilities, click
“Export/Archive Course.”
Step 5: Export your old course
(cont.)

15. Step 5: Export your old course
(cont.)
 Click the name of the export file.
 Save to your computer (remember where!).

16. Step 6: Import your old course
 Go to your new course.
 Under the Control Panel, under Packages and Utilities,
choose “Import Package.”

17. Step 6: Import your old course
(cont.)
 Click “Import Package.”

18. Step 6: Import your old course
(cont.)
 Click “Browse My Computer” under Select a Package.
 Find the zip file of your old course that was previously
saved.
 Click “Select All” under Select Course Materials.
 Click “Submit” at the bottom right of the page.

19. Step 7: Verify the import and merge
 Wait for an email from the Blackboard Administrator
stating that “the operation is complete.”
 Refresh the screen or go back into your new course and
verify that the import has occurred correctly.
 You should see the online template items first, with your
old course tabs below those.
Tabs from
your old
course
here.

20. Step 7: Verify the import and merge
(cont.)
 Clean up! Move, rename, merge, your files and folders with
the online course template.
 Use the printed version of the online template, or the
picture to the left, to ensure that the order of the online
template remains the same.

21. Step 8: Personalize your new course
 Go to the hidden “Instructor Information” tab.
 Follow the checklist and personalize each tab with your
new course information.
Return to Step 1:
Let me see all that
again!
I’m Finished!

22. Finished! Great Job!
• Christy Adkins - Humanities
• Betsy Allen – Muhlenberg Campus
• Shannon Allen – Nursing Division
• Misty Burton – Allied Health Division
• Brooke Edens – Nursing Division
• Lisa Lee – Online Instruction Coordinator*
• Matt Luckett – Applied Technology Division*
• Sonya Shockley – Social Sciences Division
• Dr. Aseem Talukdar – Mathematics and Sciences Division
• Jennifer Welch – Mathematics and Sciences Division*
• Mike Wilkerson – Blackboard Technical Specialist*
• *Supports all divisions
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