Ohio University

Features available regardless of whether individual instructors use Blackboard or not.

Thursday, June 16, 2011
Sean O'Malley  

Finding the Right Course | Viewing a Course Roster | Sending E-Mail to your Students | Adding an Instructor to your Course

If you need to view course rosters or send e-mail to students enrolled in your full term or first session summer courses before the new Class Lists tool is released, you may do so via Blackboard.

If you are an instructor who does not normally use Blackboard, you still can view enrollment and send e-mail . You do NOT have to make your course available to your students in Blackboard to use these features. If you are administrative staff and need to access rosters on behalf of instructors in your department, then those instructors will need to add you to their courses as an additional instructor.

6/24/11 update - Currently, students who drop a class are not being removed from Blackboard automatically.  Also, graduate students taking undergraduate courses (and vice versa) will not appear in your Blackboard roster.  If you notice a discrepancy between Blackboard and Course Offerings, the number displayed in Course Offerings is the accurate count of students enrolled.

Finding the Right Course

When you log into Blackboard, you may see more than just your summer courses in My Courses, and depending on your settings, it may not immediately be clear which course is a summer course. To make it easier to find the appropriate course and section:

1. Log in to Blackboard using your OHIO ID and password.
2. In the upper right corner of the My Courses box, click the gear icon.
3. In the resulting Edit Courses page, check the box for Display Course ID next to each summer course you want to view:
4. • Full term summer names end with “SUMM_2010-11”
   • First session summer names end with “SUM1_2010-11”
   • Second session summer names end with “SUM2_2010-11”
     
   • Enrollment data for second session courses will be loaded on July 11.
5. To avoid confusion, you can uncheck the boxes next any previous term courses that you don't want to see in My Courses, then click Submit.
6. Now you should be able to easily identify the appropriate summer course sections under My Courses.

Viewing a Course Roster

1. Log in to Blackboard using your OHIO ID and password.
2. In My Courses, click the summer course you want to access.
3. In the Control Panel area, click Users and Groups.
4. Click Users.
5. In the Search Action bar across the top, choose Username under the first drop-down, Not blank under the second drop-down, and leave the text box empty.
6. Click Go.

Click here for a one minute video tutorial.

Sending E-Mail to your Students

1. Log in to Blackboard using your OHIO ID and password.
2. In My Courses, click the summer course you want to access.
3. In the Control Panel area, click Course Tools.
4. Click Send Email.
5. Select All Users.
6. Type your Subject and Message, then click Submit.

Adding an Instructor to your Course

1. Log in to Blackboard using your OHIO ID and password.
2. In My Courses, click the summer course you want to access.
3. In the Control Panel area, click Course Tools.
4. Click Add/Modify Enrollments.
5. Click Enroll Users.
6. Enter the OHIO ID(s) of the individual(s) you want to authorize and click Search.
7. Select the appropriate OHIO ID(s) and click Submit.
8. Under Course Role select Instructor.
9. • You can choose additional courses under Course List if you wish to grant access to more than one of your courses.
10. Click Submit.