Managing users

Users who have access Blackboard can participate in Blackboard organizations. For users to participate in the organizations or receive emails, users must be added (or enrolled) into each organization.

it’s the organization leader’s responsibility to manually enroll and unenroll Blackboard organization participants.

To manually add users to your Blackboard organization roster:

1. Click Users & Groups in the lower left section of the Organization Management area.

2. Click Users.

3. Click Find Users to Enroll link in the upper left corner of the page.

4. Choose the user you wish you manually enroll.

   • If you know the user’s Blackboard username, manually type it into the Username box. Do NOT click the browse button. proceed directly to step 5.

   • If you do not know the user’s Blackboard username, leave the Username box empty and click the Browse button and then search for the user.Tip: If the user has a common last name, search for the user’s official email address

   • Once you have located the user in Blackboard, select the user and then in the bottom right corner of the pop-up window, click Submit.

5. Leave the Role pull-down list set to Participant.

6. Leave Enrollment Availability set to Yes.

7. Click Submit.

Repeat steps 3 through 7 for each additional user you wish to add.

Please note that Blackboard only allows each user in the same organization once. If a user already in the organization, you won’t find the user when trying to enroll. To see a list of users already enrolled in your organization:

1. Once log on Blackboard, click the Organizations tab on the navigation menu

2. Click the organization you want to access

3. On the organization’s Control Panel, under Users and Groups, click Users.

4. Choose “Not Blank”. [This tells Blackboard to display all users.]

5. Click Go.