Self-Service Course Merge with Naming Restrictions?
Hi all,
We're exploring ways to streamline course merges in Brightspace and are curious if anyone has successfully implemented a faculty self-service merge process that:
- Allows instructors to self-serve merges
- Enforces a controlled naming convention for merged courses
- Does not interfere with enrollment or grade pushback via ILP
- Allows for unmerging of courses by IT staff
Our current process is manual, using the SIS course merge tool. We're evaluating how to streamline it and whether it's feasible with the SIS merge tool and an automated renaming process. We're also interested in what others are doing. Additionally, we're considering implementing guardrails, such as restricting merges to upcoming semesters and preventing self-serve unmerging once complete.
If your institution has tackled this, or if you have documentation, lessons learned, or workflows to share, I'd love to connect. Please reply here or feel free to reach out directly.
Thank you in advance for any information you can provide.
-Jenn
Answers
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Hi @Jennifer.P.485,
Thank you for reaching out to us through the community!
While you wait for responses from other clients on how they handle this scenario, I wanted to suggest an option: you can allow instructors to perform course merges by granting them the required permissions.
You can find detailed information on how this works and what is needed in the documentation linked below:
Thanks,
Sangeetha
