Bb Course ID Formats
Background
The Bb course ID is used by all of our integrations with Mainestreet to connect a course in Mainestreet and its students and faculty to a course in Blackboard. If the course ID does not match the information in Mainestreet, students and faculty will not be populated to the Blackboard course through the integration.
The course ID also is used to distinguish regular courses used for teaching and learning from those that are Organizations or test and development courses.
We kindly ask that you follow the conventions detailed in this document.
Regular courses
Course IDs for conventional single section courses follow the form:
<Term>.<Institution>-S.<ClassNumber>.<SessionCode>
Course IDs for conventional combined section courses follow the form:
<Term>.<Institution>-C.<SectionCombinedID>.<SessionCode>
Item definitions:
<Term> = Course Term as defined in MaineStreet, currently 4 characters and references the academic year. The first 2 digits are the 2 digit academic year, the next digit is semester (1 = fall, 2 = spring, 3 = summer) and the final digit is a 0. Ex. Courses taught in the fall of 2016 are in term 1710
<Institution> = Campus as identified in MaineStreet:
| Identifier | Campus |
| UMS01 | UMA |
| UMS02 | UMF |
| UMS03 | UMFK |
| UMS04 | UMM |
| UMS05 | UM |
| UMS06 | USM |
| UMS07 | UMPI |
<ClassNumber> = “Class Number” in MaineStreet, used to identify course sections
<SectionCombinedID> = “Section Combined ID” in MaineStreet, used to collectively identify crosslisted and multisection combined courses
<SessionCode> = “Session Code” in MaineStreet, commonly used to identify the duration or timing of the course. All combined section courses have a session code defined, and they are often recognizable in summer session courses.
Examples:
1630.UMS01-S.80944.
Summer 2016
UMA
Single section
Class Number = 80944
(Session Code is blank)
1710.UMS06-C.0001.1
Fall 2016
USM
Combined section
Section Combined ID = 0001
Session Code = 1
Other Course ID formats
Other IDs are used for Organizations and follow the format of:
<Prefix>_<Campus>_<Distinguishing name>
Item definitions:
Allowed Prefixes
| CRS | primary/exclusively for institutional training/evaluation shells |
| DEP | for courses/ORGs for campus divisions - "Departments", etc. |
| DEV | for development shells |
| NCC | for non-credit courses NOT in Mainestreet |
| ORG | for organizations |
| PRA | for practice or training shells |
Reserved Prefixes
| CSC | for combined section courses |
| SSC | for single-section courses |
| TEM | for campus template course shells |
| IMP | for internal use by US:IT for importing shells. Please do not use!
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Campus designators
| A | UMA |
| F | UMF |
| K | UMFK |
| I | UMPI |
| M | UMM |
| O | UM |
| P | USM |
| U | University or system wide |
| S | University Services |
| X | UMS external |
Distinguishing name, should be a name that distinguishes this from other course shells at the campus and which is somewhat descriptive.
