Center for Teaching Excellence at AU: Adding a Student to Blackboard Course

How to add a student to a course

Now that faculty can go to the portal (https://my.american.edu) and activate a course, it should not be necessary for faculty to manually add students to a course. Once a course has been activated, it will automatically be refreshed with the current list of enrolled students each evening. New students will automatically added, and students who drop a course will be dropped.

However, the instructions below will still work if a professor wants to add a student immediately and not wait for evening's update.

Once a course has been populated, the professor is able to add students to the course. This may be done by going into the CONTROL PANEL and under the USER MANAGEMENT tab on the top right corner, click on the ADD USER option and then click the ENROLL EXISTING USER option. Then either type in the last name of the student or the student ID and hit the SEARCH button. The student name would show up. Click the ADD option that appears next to the student name and hit SUBMIT and the student will automatically be added to the course.

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