Adding a teaching assistant or co-instructor to a course (or a co-leader to an organization) is as easy as adding another student to your roster in Blackboard, with the additional step of assigning them a particular role in the course.

Adding the Teaching Assistant / Co-Instructor to Your Course

From "Control Panel" select "Enroll User"

Search for a student/instructor by last name or user name, select the name (the checkbox in the 'ADD' column), then click "Submit".

If the student's user name has been found, this means the user exists in the UMBC Blackboard database; students and instructors 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 or instructor's UMBC userid, contact the OIT Help Desk at 410.455.3838 or helpdesk@umbc.edu.
If the student / instructor doesn't have a UMBC userid, tell him or her to create one at http://accounts.umbc.edu. 

Return to the User Management section of your course Control Panel.

Click List / Modify Users.

Click the button of the corresponding student / instructor name.

Scroll down to section 4, Role and Availability.

Select the user role you wish to assign to the Teaching Assistant or Co-Instructor.

When finished, click .

1. From the Control Panel, under "User Management", select Remove users from the course.

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.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the help desk.