Blackboard Tutorial: User Management

As an instructor you are able to enrol other users into your course.

There is no need to enrol students yourself, as this is an automatic process handled by Banner and Blackboard.

If you find that students who should be there are missing from your course, or those who shouldn’t be are shown in the list of enrolled users - please contact the ITS Service desk on x5050 and notify them that your course enrolments do not look correct. You should not need to manually add or remove students yourself. Please note that this does not apply to ‘graduate concession students’, who need to be added to the course by the instructor.

Adding Instructors, Teaching Assistants, Course Builders and Graders

To enrol an Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Course Builder or Grader is a two stage process. You enrol them first as a student and then you must change their status to the one required.

You need to go to your Control Panel:

Control Panel > Enroll User >

1. enter the last name of the user in the search box
2. click search
3. tick the box next to the user's name
4. click submit

If the student/staff member does not appear, it is possible they are already enrolled in your course: search for them again this time using the List/Modify users option.)

If you still can not find them, contact the ITS Service Desk on x5050 and log a request for a Blackboard account to be created.

Tip: You can change the view to show student Id numbers and login name if you want to be sure you have the correct students enrolled in your course.

Control Panel > Gradebook > Gradebook Settings

The default enrolment is as a student, so you must change this, for example, to Instructor or Teaching Assistant.

List/Modify Users

1. enter the last name again in the search box
2. click search
3. click on the Properties button for the user whose status you'd like to change
4. scroll down to 'Role and Availability' and click the User Role that you would like the user to have in Blackboard e.g. Instructor
5. Click Submit.

If you would like to include a user who does not have a VUW computing account we can create them an external Blackboard user account which will allow this person to access Blackboard (but nothing else on the VUW campus).

Contact the ITS Service Desk on x5050 and request for an external Blackboard account to be created. You will need to provide the first and last name and a valid e-mail address of the users, for the account to be created. You must also explain why this user needs access to Blackboard.

Note: This should only be used for staff/students who have no need to access any other system within VUW. If they will require e-mail, or access to network file storage/printing this is not the account to ask for.