Enrolling & Removing Students in Blackboard

There are three ways to enroll students in your course:

1. Auto Enrollment
2. Enroll them one-at-a-time
3. Activate the "self enrollment" feature so users can enroll themselves

NOTE: Whichever method you choose, remember to delete (or "un-enroll") students at the end of the semester. Otherwise, they continue to appear in your Blackboard course--which also appears in their list of courses.

Auto Enrollment

The auto enrollment feature allows for the automatic enrollment of students into the appropriate course if the course has been requested for the current semester and created for the instructor. When the student offically enrolls in the course through myUMBC they are automatically enrolled in the corresponding Blackboard course. This feature is activated approximately two weeks before the semester begins and is turned off once the semester add/drop period has expired.

Note: Once the add/drop has expired the course instructor can safely delete students that have officially dropped the course without them being reenrolled.

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Enrolling students one-at-a-time

1. From "Control Panel" select "Add Users"

2. Select "Enroll Existing User"

• This means the user already exists in the UMBC Blackboard database; students can't be enrolled unless they have a UMBC userid. All UMBC userid's are batch uploaded into the Blackboard database everyday, and at least twice daily during the first 10 days of the semester.
  • If you can't find a student's UMBC userid, contact the OIT Help Desk at 410.455.3838 or helpdesk@umbc.edu.
  • If the student doesn't have a UMBC userid, tell him or her to create one at http://accounts.umbc.edu.

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Self Enrollment

1. From "Control Panel" select "Course Settings"

2. Select "Enrollment Options"

3. Select "Self Enrollment"

• You can leave self enrollment open, set a start and end date, and even require an access code.

4. When students search for your course in the "Course Catalog" they will find an "Enroll" button next to your course.

• You WON'T see the "Enroll" button, because you're already enrolled as a user (as an instructor).
  

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Deleting (or "un-enrolling") Students

1. From "Control Panel" select "Remove Users"

2. Either enter the userid of a single student, or select "Search" or "List All" to remove multiple students.

3. Select the student by clicking in the box to the left of the student's name.

NOTE: To confirm the removal of users, you must type "Yes" with an upper case "Y."

4. Click on "Submit" at the bottom of the page.

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