Order SI-net Courses and UQ Extend Courses (Original)
Overview
Staff are encouraged to request Learn.UQ (Blackboard) and/or UQ Extend courses for the next Semester as soon as possible (up to 6 months before the beginning of semester). This ensures that the creation of your course is not delayed due to peak demand during O-week and Week 1 of semester.
Options to obtain a Learn.UQ (Blackboard) and/or UQ Extend course:
- Submit your ECP (Electronic Course Profile) and a blank Blackboard course will be created for you within approximately 2 days.
OR - In some schools and faculties your course will be requested for you.
OR - Submit the Learn.UQ Site Request Form to request:
- a blank course site
- a course site with a copy of the content from a previous version of the course
How to request a new blank course site
- Go to https://learn.uq.edu.au.
- Click on the Institution page.
- Select the Site Request Forms link within Course sites section.
- Click on the New or Merge only button to request a new SI-net course site.
- Enter your course code in the Course Code textbox.
- Select the required semester of your course from the Semester drop-down list.
- Click on the Search button.
- Select the course code of your required site from the Sites Found list.
- Enter the instructor’s UQ username e.g. uqabcdef in the UQ Username textbox.
- Optionally, enter the UQ Username of any required staff members in the corresponding Teaching Assistants, Grader or Course Builders textboxes.
- Optionally, to combine courses with different modes (flexible/external), student groups (undergraduate/postgraduate) or campuses (St Lucia/Ipswich/Gatton/Herston), enter the full course code, campus/s of registration and starting semester of each course (e.g. ABCD1234 External Semester 2 2020) into the Enrolments/merged courses text box.
Note: You must request that courses are combined every semester. Courses will not be automatically combined just because this was requested in previous semesters.
- Optionally, enter any other requirements in the Other Requirements textbox.
- If you require a UQ Extend course, check the Yes checkbox.
- Click on the Submit button.
How to request a course site with content copied from a previous version
- Go to https://learn.uq.edu.au.
- Click on the Institution page.
- Select the Site Request Forms link within Course sites section.
- Click on the Copy button to request a new SI-net course with a copy of the content from a previous version of the course.
- Enter your course code in the Course Code textbox.
- Select the required semester of your course from the Semester dropdown list.
- Click on the Search button.
- Select the course code of your required site from the Sites Found list.
- Select the previous semester of the course that you wish to copy from the dropdown list.
- Enter the instructor’s UQ username (i.e. uqabcdef) in the UQ Username textbox.
- Optionally, enter the UQ Username of any required staff members in the corresponding Teaching Assistants, Grader or Course Builders textboxes.
- Optionally, to combine courses with different modes (flexible/external), student groups (undergraduate/postgraduate) or campuses (St Lucia/Ipswich/Gatton/Herston), enter the full course code, campus/s of registration and starting semester of each course (e.g. ABCD1234 External Semester 2 2020) into the Enrolments/merged courses text box.
Note: You must request that courses are combined every semester. Courses will NOT be automatically combined just because this was requested in previous semesters.
- Optionally, enter any other requirements in the Other Requirements textbox.
- If you require a UQ Extend course, check the Yes checkbox.
- Click on the Submit button.
How to request multiple courses to be merged into a single course
To merge multiple existing courses with different modes (flexible/external), student groups (undergraduate/postgraduate) or campuses (St Lucia/Ipswich/Gatton/Herston) into a single course, you should submit a Course/Organisation Site Request Form.
Note: You must request that courses are combined every semester. Courses will NOT be automatically combined just because this was requested in previous semesters.
- Go to https://learn.uq.edu.au.
- Click on the Institution page.
- Select the Site Request Forms link within Course sites section.
- Select the required option:
- Click on the Copy button if you require content from a previous version of the course to be copied in addition to the current content in the courses you want to merge.
- Click on the New or Merge only button if you do not require content to be copied from a previous version of the course at this stage of the semester (i.e. the courses you want to merge include the required content).
Note: Either option will not create a new site for you, it will just allow the sites to be merged/combined.
- Enter your course code in the Course Code textbox.
- Select the required semester of your course from the Semester dropdown list.
- Click on the Search button.
- Select the course code of your required site from the Sites Found list.
- If you selected Copy in Step 4, select the previous semester of the course that you wish to copy from the dropdown list.
- Enter the instructor’s UQ username (i.e. uqabcdef) in the UQ Username textbox.
Note: Any current enrolments from the courses to be merged will be copied across.
- Optionally, enter the UQ Username of any required staff members in the corresponding Teaching Assistants, Grader or Course Builders textboxes.
Note: Any current enrolments in the courses will also be copied across.
- For Course Enrolments, now that you have selected the first course you want to include in your merged Blackboard site, enter the full course code, campus/s of registration and starting semester of the other course offerings that you would like to have merged into the single Blackboard course site (e.g. ABCD1234 External Semester 2 2020) into the Enrolments/merged courses text box.
- Optionally, enter any other requirements in the Other Requirements textbox.
- If you require a UQ Extend course, check the Yes checkbox.
Note: Any current UQ Extend courses that are linked to the courses to be merged will be copied across.
- Click on the Submit button.
Naming conventions of merged courses
Once multiple courses have been merged into a single Blackboard course site, the naming convention will change to one of the following.
Courses with different populations:
ECON7360S_6260STx enrolments added to ECON3360S_6260STx creates the following combined course site:
[ECON3360/7360] Applied Econometrics for Microeconomics (St Lucia). Semester 2, 2011
Courses at multiple locations:
- MGTS1960S_6260GAx enrolments added to MGTS1960S_6260EXx creates the following combined course site: [MGTS1960/7979] Business Management I (Gatton and External). Semester 2, 2012
Courses with combined populations and locations:
- ENVM3504S_6260GAx, ENVM3504S_6260STx, ENVM7504S_6260EXx and ENVM7504S_6260STx enrolments all added into ENVM3504S_6260EXx creates the following combined course site:
[ENVM3504/7504] Environment, Sustainability and Ecotourism (St Lucia, Gatton and External). Semester 2, 2012
Reusing existing UQ Extend courses
If your course requires you to use a UQ Extend course from an existing course, you will need to copy it from an existing course.
- In the Other requirements text box, specify your exact needs. (Example: I only need a copy of the PBS UQ Extend course from PHYS1234, no other course content is required)
- As you require a UQ Extend course, check the Yes checkbox and then click on the Submit button.
Note: UQ Extend content can exist in both SI-net and non-SI-net courses