Changes to Course Provisioning, Etc.

As announced in an email to faculty sent on April 15, 2020, the OPALS system has been removed from service. Beginning with the Summer 2020 semester, faculty will receive a blank Blackboard shell for every course that they have in the schedule for that term. Faculty will be able to use the Course Copy feature in Blackboard to copy content from whichever previous semester offering or existing master course they desire into the new blank shell. Please use the links provided below for information about how to complete tasks that were previously processed in OPALS:

• Copy contents into your new semester shells
• Merge multiple courses/sections into a single Blackboard shell
• Request development of a new fully online course

If you have any questions about these, or other, Blackboard-related tasks, please contact your designated instructional designer or contact the Support Center to have a help ticket created and assigned to a member of our team. You may contact the Support Center via any of the following means:

Email: supportcenter@uhcl.edu
Phone: 281.283.2828
Create a Support Ticket