How do I add a teaching assistant (TA), second instructor, or guest to my Blackboard course?
For many different reasons, it may be helpful to add teaching assistants, second instructors, or guests to your Blackboard courses. Instructors who are co-listed on the Schedule of Classes will be automatically enrolled in the shell. Otherwise, instructors will need to manually add these users.
Blackboard Roles Information
When adding a user to your course, be sure to provision the user with the correct course role:
NOTE: The Guest role is NOT YET supported in Ultra courses. Guest Access will allow users to view content only. No access is provided to any tools that leave data footprints such as assessments or discussions. Guest Access must also be configured within the course. See How do I allow guest access to my Original Blackboard course?
TAs will have access to Needs Grading and the grade center while graders can access Needs Grading, but not the grade center.
Course Builders have access to everything that an Instructor can do except the Grade Center.
Users who are added to a course with the Instructor role by another Instructor can only be removed by a Blackboard system administrator.
Learn more about Blackboard Course Roles ↗︎
Attempting to manually enroll or delete students from your course may repopulate them into your shell. If enrollments in your Blackboard shell appear off, please submit a ticket via RT.
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Locate Roster from the menu. Click the link below it.
Click the + in the top right and click Enroll People
Enter the name, email, or username of your Teaching Assistant in the search field.
Click the + beside their name
Select the appropriate role to add them to the course. Click on Submit.