User Management

I want to add a Teaching Assistant (TA) to my course site
I want to give another instructor access to my course site
A student dropped out of my class. How do I remove them from my Blackboard course site?
I'd like to create student groups - how do I do this?
Course roles in Blackboard

I want to add a Teaching Assistant (TA) to my course site

Please complete the Student/Faculty Add Request form, advising the following:
◊Last and first name of TA or adjunct to be added
◊Course site you want them to be added to
◊What role you want them to be designated within the course site. See Course roles for clarification.
Please note that the person to be added as a TA must have an active USF network profile and therefore a network username and password.

I want to give another instructor access to my course site

Instructors are automatically added to course sites based on the information contained in the registrar's database, Jenzabar. If however, you wish for a colleague not necessarily teaching the course to have access to it for observing or grading purposes please complete the steps as above for adding a TA.

A student dropped out of my class. How do I remove them from my Blackboard course site?

Once a student has dropped out of a class they must be removed from the course site. For the most part the Jenzabar-Blackboard snapshot will catch this and automatically remove the student from the course site. However it is easy enough to remove a student from the course site:

From the Control Panel click on ‘Remove Users from Course' under the User Management section.
Without entering anything in the Search field click on the ‘Search' button to show the list of enrolled students.
Select the student you wish to remove from the course by checking the box next to their name.
Type the word ‘Yes' in the text field at the bottom right of the page and click ‘Submit'.
A warning dialogue box will appear. Click ‘OK'.
Click ‘OK'.

Please note, however that if the student has not been officially removed from the course in Jenzabar / with the Registrar the daily processing of files will continue to

I'd like to create student groups - how do I do this?

Creating student groups can help your sort and manage large groups of students more effectively. Using groups is useful for emailing, discussion board and collaboration. To create student groups:

From the Control Panel click on ‘Manage Groups' under User Management.
Click on ‘Add Group'.
Type a name for the group and if desired, a description.
Check the ‘Group Options' that you wish to be available to the group (I recommend selecting all of them).
Click ‘Submit' and ‘OK'.
To add students to the group click on the ‘Modify' button next to the specific group.
Click on ‘Add Users to Group'.
Without entering anything in the Search field click on the ‘Search' button to show the list of enrolled students.
Select the students you wish to add to the group by checking the box next to their name.
Click ‘Submit' and ‘OK'.

To add more groups repeat the steps above.

Course roles in Blackboard

Course roles are preset roles that determine the level of access a user has within a course. Users can have only one role per course. Roles are course-specific, so a single user could be in an instructor role in one course and a student in another course. There are six course roles:

Instructor: The Instructor role has access to everything in the course Control Panel.
Teaching Assistant: The Teaching Assistant role has access to most functions in the Control Panel, but cannot remove users, copy or archive a course or manage the course menu.
Course Builder: The Course Builder role has access only to the Content Area section of the Control Panel.
Grader: The Grader role only has access to the Assessment section, Collaboration tool and the digital drop box in the Control Panel.
Student: The Student role is the default course role. Students do not have access to the Control Panel.
Guest: The Guest role has no access to any areas in the Control Panel and limited access to the course site.