How to Add Users to Your Blackboard Site

To add teaching assistants, auditors or others to your non-degree Executive Education Blackboard site,
click here for instructions.

To add teaching assistants, auditors or others to your Full-Time, TMP or EMP Blackboard site (NOTE: they must have a Northwestern Netid) :

1) Log On to Blackboard and go to your course site's main page.

2) Click the "Control Panel" button in the lower left region of the screen.

3) Go to the "User Management" section in the upper right region and click "Add Users".

4) Click "Enroll Existing User, then search for the user by last name or username (netid). If you are unsure of netid or the spelling of the name, choose the "A-z,0-9" tab and look the person up.

5) Click the checkbox in the lefthand "Add" column on the line with the person's name, and click "Submit" at the bottom right of the page (you may need to scroll down). Then click OK.

6) The user is enrolled by default as a Student. To grant higher levels of permission:
  1. Click "List/Modify Users".
  2. Look up the user using any of the methods on the page.
  3. Click the "Properties"button for that user in the far right-hand column.
  4. Choose the person's level of permissions ("role") and click "Submit".
Here are descriptions of the available roles:

"Instructor" gets complete control over the website.
"Teaching Assistant" gets all but the ability to edit the gradebook and create forums in discussion groups.
"Grader" gets control over the "Assessment" and "Course Tools" sections of the Control Panel.
"Course Builder" gets control over the "Content Areas", "User Management", "Assistance" and "Course Options" sections of the Control Panel.
"Student" gets no access to the Control Panel.


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