Since Fall 2004, OIT has employed an "auto enroll" script that automatically enrolls all students into a companion Blackboard course site AFTER they have officially enrolled in the course through myUMBC. However, if a student later dropped the course in myUMBC, he or she was not removed from the Blackboard course site. This lead to some confusion for students and faculty. Starting in Spring 2007, students who offically drop a course in myUMBC, will be dropped from the corresponding Blackboard course site. In actual fact, they will not be removed because Blackboard does not support an event driven batch remove process. Instead they will no longer have access and they will not see the course in their list of Blackboard courses.
Instructors will still see the students in their Blackboard course under "List/Modify Users" and the gradebook, but students will have a red circle & slash icon next to their name indicating their access has been disabled. Instructor can remove these students if they wish, especially after the add/drop deadline has passed. But at this time, OIT does not support a system-wide process for removal of students. We can only support disabling course access for students who officially drop. If the student later adds the course again, our usual auto-enrollment process will add them. For more information, see the Blackboard help sheet on "Enrollment".
If you have questions or concerns, you can contact Bob Armstrong at ext. 5-3885, or send an email to rarmstro@umbc.edu or blackboard@umbc.edu.