Managing Student Access
If you teach a course as part of an academic program, students may change participation status by either dropping (leaving) or adding (joining) your course. NDSU maintains specific deadlines regarding either of these two actions. In academic program courses, drop and add actions are processed electronically through the Campus Connection (Peoplesoft) system. These changes may not appear or populate through a course website (Blackboard). As the course instructor, from time to time, you will need to compare the course roster as listed in Campus Connection to your Blackboard roster and adjust student permissions accordingly.
- Academic Deadlines: A link to the NDSU Office of Records and Registration Deadlines page, which maintains up-to-date academic schedules.
- Campus Connection: A link to the official home page for the NDSU Campus Connection System.
- Campus Connection Help Pages for Faculty and Staff: A link to an index of How-to documents from the Office of Registration and Records.
Granting Blackboard Course Access to a Student
In general, students are added to your Blackboard course either as part of the Campus Connection registration process, or by DCE staff. However, at some time it may become necessary for your to grant access to a student manually. Use these easy steps to complete the process:
- Select "Control Panel" from the navigation bar of your course site.
- Under the heading "User Management" (upper right-hand corner of screen), select "Enroll User."
- Choose an option to search by - last name or email address of the student you want to add.
- Select the "Search" button.
- Select the "Add" checkbox next to the name of the student.
- Select "Submit."
- The default role of any newcomer to a course site is "Student." Student permission allows the person to access any areas of your course site that have been made available. Students cannot access the "Control Panel" or any of the items that you have set to "Unavailable."
Using Student Management Features of Blackboard
Need more information about using Blackboard to manage students? Select this link to view the Blackboard information area of this site...