Please note: Instructor access to Blackboard expires January 31st, 2021.
Institutional Template / Blank Shell
Blueprint / Blank Shell
Only used when discussing the top-level official MSU Denver Blueprint. This will change regularly and have a name like “MSU Denver Fall 2020 Blueprint” (with the term changing as appropriate).
Course Template
Lead Course
A course developed specifically to be distributed to multiple instructors.
Child Course
Recipient Course
A course that will receive content from a lead course.
Course Shell
Student-facing course
A course that will have students enrolled in it, as opposed to a sandbox or a development shell. For example, a lead course might also be a student-facing course. Or, a lead course might be built in a sandbox and then copied into a student-facing course later.
Merged / Cross-listed Course
Multi Section
In Canvas a cross-listed course will appear with a course title called “Multi Section”.
N/A (was combined with a Course Shell in Blackboard)
Course Section
Enrollments are located for a Banner CRN.
Development Shell
Sandbox Course
Faculty and Staff are provided five sandbox courses as workspaces for creating and editing content prior to moving content into student-facing courses.
MSU Denver Course Coordinator
Staff or Faculty member within a department who is responsible for the course content for a particular course.
Send Email / Send Email (External)
Conversation
Note that Canvas provides the ability to send conversations to students, however this tool is slightly different from Blackboard's. It will send a notification to the student, but they need to access Canvas’s Inbox (via the link in the notification sent to them based on their personal notification settings) on the navigation bar to see the message.
Activated Course / Live Course Shell
Receiving Course
Instructor/Faculty
Teacher
In Canvas a faculty member teaching a class is referred to as a “Teacher”.