Why can't I add another user to my Blackboard course?
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UMBC faculty are not restricted at this time from adding other users to their Blackboard courses. Please review this FAQ -> How do I add a teaching assistant (TA), second instructor, or guest to my Blackboard course? However, sometimes an instructor may not experience an issue when attempting to manually add a user to a course:
- In an Ultra course, the instructor may encounter a "no results" error message.
- In an Original course, the instructor may get a permission error message.
These errors may occur for one of two reasons:
- Ultra or Original courses: The student was previously enrolled in the course but dropped it from their UMBC schedule – as a result, they are now disabled in the Blackboard course roster. The student may also be waitlisted for the course, but the drop overrides access.
- Original courses only: The instructor has inadvertently added the username twice when updating the Enroll Users field – as a result, Blackboard cannot add the same person twice.