Currently we feed all students that have declared a particular major or minor into the appropriate Department site in Blackboard. This allows all faculty and AAs to quickly email everyone associated with the department, conduct surveys, provide a space for majors/minors to add information about their progress towards fulfilling the major, communicate with each other …
One other administrative function is to email seniors. There are many ways to do this each of which requires some front end work and maintenance of lists. However, we have a little work around that makes contacting majors/minors that are also seniors rather easy.
1) Log in to Blackboard
2) Go to your department site under My Organizations
3) Go to the Grade Center>>Full Grade Center in the Control Panel (left margin, below menu)
4) Click on the double down arrows in the Obie ID Number column (usually the 3rd or 4th column) and select “Sort Descending”
5) Click on all the checkboxes in front of all SR- (SR stands for seniors) in column 1
6) After checking all relevant boxes, scroll back to the top of the grade center, select “Email Selected Users”
DONE! Remember that this will send email to majors AND minors.
