Populating the Grade Center with Students

Overview

Students are added to the Grade Center when they are enrolled in a Course or Section. Depending on the institution, enrollment can be done automatically using data from the Student Information System (SIS), by the Instructor using a batch command or singularly, or by allowing users to self-enroll.

Add and Remove Users from the Grade Center Automatically

Students are added to and removed from the Grade Center automatically for institutions that use their Student Information System to populate Courses and Sections. Depending on when and how information is updated from the SIS database and passed on to Blackboard, adding and dropping students from the Grade Center may occur at different intervals. For more information on integrating SIS data with Blackboard, see the Advanced Integration and Data Management Manual available from Behind the Blackboard.

Add Users to the Grade Center Manually

Instructors can add students from the Grade Center by manually enrolling them in their Course or Section. To enroll a student, the student must be a user in the system. Follow the steps below to manually add a student to the Grade Center.

If the student is already a Blackboard user:

  1. From the Course, navigate to the Control Panel.
  2. Click Enroll User.
  3. Locate the user by searching or listing all users.
  4. Check the select box next to the student to enroll in the course.
  5. Click Submit.

 

Note: Multiple students that are listed on the page may be added using this method. To add additional students that are listed on another page, first submit the initial students by clicking Submit. Next, navigate to the second page and enroll those students. Multiple selections can only be made on a single page.

 

If the student is not already a Blackboard user:

  1. From the Course, navigate to the Control Panel.
  2. Click Create User.
  3. Fill in the mandatory fields.
  4. Select the role Student.
  5. Select Yes to make the student available in the Course,
  6. Click Submit.

A user that has been added to the system manually from the Course Control Panel will automatically be enrolled in the Course and appear in the Grade Center.

To manually add multiple users to a Course follow these steps:

  1. From the Course, navigate to the Control Panel.
  2. Click Batch Create Users.
  3. Browse to select the delimited file containing user records.
  4. Select the delimiter.
  5. Click Submit.

Users that have been added to the system manually from the Course Control Panel will automatically be enrolled in the course and appear in the Grade Center.

Remove Users from the Grade Center Manually

Users that are removed from a Course are also removed from the Grade Center. To remove users from a course manually, follow these steps:

  1. From the Course, navigate to the Control Panel.
  2. Click Remove Users from Course.
  3. Locate the users by searching or listing all users.
  4. Check the select box next to the users to remove them from the course.
  5. Type the word Yes in the text box to confirm the removal.
  6. Click Submit.