How to add, remove another user and change another user's course roles

The new Manage User tool will allow instructors to:

• • Add/enroll another MacEwan person

  • Change the role of other users currently enrolled in your course

  • Remove users

  • Remove yourself

To access the new Manage User tool:

1. In your Blackboard course, navigate to Course Management and locate the Control Panel, click to expand the tab – Users and Groups.

2. Click on Manage User and a pop up window will appear to provide you with a basic introduction of the tool.

To add another MacEwan person(s)

This function is often used by instructors to add another instructor, departmental chair or administrative personnel.

1. In your Blackboard course, navigate to Course Management and locate the Control Panel, click to expand the tab – Users and Groups.

2. Click on Manage Users and a list of users who currently have access to your courses will be listed.

3. Click the Add button.

• • Under the Username(s) text box, enter the MacEwan Network Id of the user you wish to add.

NOTE: MacEwan Network Id is the user’s email address without the @macewan.ca part, for example, if a user’s email is SmithJ@macewan.ca, his/her Id is smithj.

Or

• • If you wish to add more than 1 user, enter a comma (,) than enter the second user’s Id. For example, leungm8,wilsong.

  • NOTE: User names are always in lowercase.

5. Under Course Role, select the appropriate role and click Submit to add the user(s).

NOTE: For a list of course roles and their privileges, please see https://sites.google.com/a/macewan.ca/bbsupport/course-roles

To remove yourself or another user:

This function is often used by instructors to remove any other users who have been granted access to their course temporarily, such as chair, another instructor or departmental administrative personnel.

NOTE: You will NOT be able to remove students who have officially registered in your course and you will NOT be able to remove other instructors in your course. If there is another instructor who no longer needs access to your course, please direct the individuals to the following procedure to remove him/herself.

1. In your Blackboard course, navigate to Course Management and locate the Control Panel, click to expand the tab – Users and Groups.

2. Click on Manage Users and click Remove.

3. A dropdown menu will appear:

• • To remove yourself, select Remove Yourself.

  • To remove other users, select “By Role: …” to list all of the users with that course role.

    • A list of users with the same course role will appear and select the user(s) you would like to remove.

    • Click Remove Users from Course.

To change a user’s role:

This function is often used by instructors to change the role of another user. For example, you want to give your departmental chair access to your course as an instructor but you have accidently given your chair the Student role instead.

For a list of course roles and their privileges, please see https://sites.google.com/a/macewan.ca/bbsupport/course-roles

1. In your Blackboard course, navigate to Course Management and locate the Control Panel, click to expand the tab – Users and Groups.

2. Click on Manage Users.

3. A list of users who have access to your course will be listed; locate the user you wish to change his/her role.

4. User the column - Role, click on the dropdown menu to select a different course role to assign to that user.