Providing Access to Your Blackboard Course

Automatically enrolled students

Students registered in the HUB:

Any student officially enrolled in a course that is registered with the HUB / Student Information System (SIS) will be automatically enrolled in your Blackboard course. Under most circumstances your student will be enrolled in SIS and will have an Andrew ID.

Users who may experience problems with enrollment in a course

Cross-Registered Students:
NOTE: If the course is cross-registered, it may take up to two weeks for some of your students to receive their Andrew IDs. While your students await their Andrew IDs, you may want to allow guest access to your Blackboard course.


Students on the Wait List:
NOTE: If you have important materials that students need to see before they become automatically enrolled in the Blackboard course, you may want to manually enroll these students.

• Students on the waiting list for a course do not initially have access to the Blackboard course site.

Manually Enrolling Students

• Refer to Managing Users.

External Users for whom you want to provide access

Students/Participants NOT Enrolled in SIS:
(This user type is not and will never be officially enrolled in your course.)

• If a student is not enrolled SIS and/or your course is not cross-registered, then you will need to request a “Blackboard Sponsored Account".

Allowing Public Guest Access

Warning: It is important that you do not open access to guest users if you have chosen to use copyrighted materials for educational purposes in your class.

Set guest access in 3 areas using the Control Panel.

• From the "Manage Course Menu" area under "Course Options".
• From the "Manage Tools" area under "Course Options".
• From the "Settings" area under "Course Options".




• Select "Manage Course Menu" under "Course Options".
• Click "Modify" next to the course area for which you are allowing guests.
• Click in the checkbox next to "Allow Guest Access".
• Click "Submit".




• Select "Manage Tools " under "Course Options".
• Click "Enable Blackboard Tools".
• Click in the checkbox next to the tool(s) for which you are allowing guests.
• Click "Submit".




• Select "Settings" under "Course Options".
• Click "Guest Access".
• Click "Yes" to allow guests.
• Click "Submit".

Instructors: For assistance with understanding how to add these content types, contact bb-help@andrew.cmu.edu