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Role for student with Incomplete grade

Idea created by faith.jelley on Feb 8, 2018

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At the end of terms we often have students that need course access after the established end date in order to complete work fir their grade of 'Incomplete'. Currently we adjust the course availability date then manually turn off all students without a grade of incomplete. In rare instances we will have students in the same class with different deadlines for the submission of remaining course assignments.

When a student receives an incomplete, it would be helpful if faculty could change the student to an incomplete role allowing the student access to the course after the end date and establishing a new end date for that student.

Basically, a user based adaptive release on the whole course.

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gw0046349 Feb 8, 2018 2:54 PM
Yes, this would be wonderful, and has come up from my users as well. The issue is, when SIS is governing course availability, things get complicated. If this idea could be supported in Blackboard AND be made a part of sis, that would be great.
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hd35399 Feb 9, 2018 10:20 AM
Something like this would be fantastic. We do this with course merges (I posted an idea earlier today along these lines.) Were we need the ability for child courses to have a separate end date than the parent for incomplete type merges.
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casey.eubank Feb 9, 2018 5:22 PM
Yes! It would be awesome if it could also be done from an instructor level.
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ldonforth Feb 15, 2018 10:35 AM
A kludge would be to make basically a sandbox course for the student and clone the course material into the sandbox. With only the incomplete student enrolled, you could run it from there without having to turn off access for everyone else. Might not be faster for a small course, but for a 200+ lecture course, I'd rather clone a spin-off.
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- hd35399 @ ldonforth on Feb 15, 2018 10:57 AM
  That is currently exactly what we do. At the moment our faculty dislike this as it is a change from the way we used to handle things. They want the student in the current course. As an admin however I want a way to mark them as an incomplete.
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cg0071334 Oct 17, 2018 2:57 PM
Having an incomplete role allowing the student access to the course after the end date and establishing a new end date for that student would be a huge time saver. I hope to see a fix for this in Learn and Ultra.
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Shannon.Augustine Mar 25, 2019 3:27 PM
We just had a discussion about this. We switched to terms so students can see their courses listed in terms instead of all courses in Current courses, but this impacted a big time - now students are nto able to access to last semester course because it ended. Instructors have to go in and make the course available (continous instead of term). It leads to the issue of INC students. I have this instructor wanting to make sure that all are not allowed to access to the course after the term ends but this one. We had to disable all students and only keep one student enabled to have the access to the course. this is tedious especially if we have a large group of students in a course.

I wish that there is a way for us to incidate whether this student has INC from SIS and keep the course available for students to access even with terms enabled.
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dg35344 Mar 26, 2019 7:34 AM
Thanks for the feedback Faith and comments from the wider community. There are a couple of options to consider here:

1) Learn Ultra and in particular Ultra courses do have core functionality now called Availability Override Date (https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/SaaS/User_Management/Enroll_Users) which allows admins to override enrolments for students who need access to the course and course materials/assessments etc. outside of the normal term time. This makes the course only available to them until the date you select.
2) With the addition of some of the recent granular entitlement options into course and organisation roles, the ability to create a custom role and assign these to those specific students is also a workflow that could be considered.

Hope this is useful.

Dominic
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- Shannon.Augustine @ dg35344 on Mar 27, 2019 12:35 PM
  Yes, this is very helpful! I need to test this concept on our test box and see if it works as it states, then it may be a way for us to force all instructors to switch to Ultra. Right now, we still are using Original View with Ultra Nav Base.
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- rh22333 @ dg35344 on Mar 28, 2019 12:41 PM
  This is a feature of Ultra I have not heard promoted but one of those that would make many of our lives easier than the current methods of making everyone else unavailable.
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Role for student with Incomplete grade

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