Course Management
, expand the Users and Groups
section and click Users
. [View Screenshot]Find Users to Enroll
. [View Screenshot]Username
box, type in the username of the individual you wish to add. (The browse feature does not always work.) [View Screenshot]Role
for the individual. (See section below on Blackboard Roles
for more information on what these designations allow.)
Teaching Assistant
or Instructor
from the Role
dropdown menu. If you are requesting that I move materials between courses, please make sure to add me to all relevant courses!Yes
or No
for Enrollment Availability
. (Yes
is almost always the correct option.)
Teaching Assistant
, Course Builder
, or Instructor
, these roles will have access to the course regardless of whether or not it is hidden. Thus, you can keep Yes
selected and these individuals can still access a hidden course.Student
, selecting Yes
means that the student can see the course only when it is made available by the instructor and/or during the normal availability period.Availability Override Date
should be left blank, unless you are adding a Student
to a course that has already ended. See section on Giving Access to Students Past Availability Window
below.Submit
.Control Panel
. This role develops, teaches, or facilitates the class. Instructors can access a course that is unavailable to students. In addition, an instructor can export a Blackboard site as a court cartridge and can import a course cartridge. Once an instructor is added to a course, only an administrator (i.e., LTS) can remove them.Control Panel
.Control Panel
. Even if a course is unavailable to students, teaching assistants still have access to the course.Control Panel
. This role is appropriate for a user to manage the course without having access to student grades. A course builder can still access the course if the course is unavailable to students. Course builders have access to the following Control Panel sections: Content Collection
, Course Tools
, Users and Groups
, Customization
, Packages and Utilities
, and Help
.Grade Center
. A grader cannot access a course if it is unavailable to students.Graders have access to the following Control Panel
sections: Content Collection
, Course Tools
, Evaluation
, Grade Center
, Users and Groups
, Customization
, Packages and Utilities
(limited), and Help
.Guests
. The Guest role does not permit interaction in the Blackboard course and cannot give access to areas that display student information (e.g., Discussion Board
, Blogs
). If you wish to give auditors or guests access to all the content posted in your Blackboard course, add them with the Student
role. More information on using this role is available here Guest Access to a Blackboard Course.Occassionally, you may have a student that needs access to a course that has already ended. (This may happen if the student takes an incomplete.) To give the student access to the course past the Enrollment Availability window, follow the procedure below.
Course Management
, expand the Users and Groups
section and click Users
. [View Screenshot]Show All
at the bottom of the screen and using Ctrl+F
to search for their name. [View Screenshot]Remove Users From This Course
. A pop-up appears: This action is final and cannot be undone. Delete users?
Select OK
.
Yes
or No
for Enrollment Availability
, but without the date specified, the student still can’t access the course. The only time the availability date can be selected is when the user is first added.Find Users to Enroll
. [View Screenshot]Username
box, type in the username of the individual you wish to add.Role
for the individual. In this case, Student
.Availability Override Date
select the date that the student should no longer have access to the course. (So, if the date selected is 10/31/2021, the student would be able to see the course until that date, but not after.)