Requests for merging courses are approved and managed by the Registrar’s Office. To request merging sections in Brightspace, please complete this form:
https://go.uvm.edu/brightspace-merge
3/5000-level or 4/5000-level co-located courses sections cannot be merged in Brightspace.
Merging courses in Brightspace creates a new, empty “parent” course that contains all students in the “child” courses that were approved to merge. In other words, there is no way to merge one course into another— the merge process is only able to create a new space.
Instructors can copy content from a previous “child” course into a newly merged parent course— however student data cannot be copied between courses, so any merges should be requested and completed before the child courses are made active.
Instructors may still access the merged child course spaces in Brightspace. These child courses will have “DO NOT USE ” added to the title, and have been inactivated by default, so students will not see them.