BlackBoard Question of the Week

Q. I would like to add a batch of users to my organization, rather than adding them one by one. Can I do that?

A. If you are a “leader” for the Blackboard organization you can use the My Organizations Plus tool to submit a “.txt” file of a list of students with the list of their UVIDs. 

Please visit this link Managing Organization Enrollment for a tutorial on how to use My Organizations Plus to enroll users, including how to enroll multiple users simultaneously.

Q. I have a Blackboard organization that I am now starting to manage, but I am having trouble uploading documents.  Can you help? 

A. You can use Blackboard Faculty Resources tutorials to learn how to manage your organization – they work the same way in both courses and organizations, except for managing enrollments. 

For help with uploading documents, visit Adding Files in Blackboard ; for help with managing enrollments, visit Blackboard Organizations/Communities and click on “Manage Organization Enrollment.”

Q. How can I add members to my Blackboard organization?

A. Log into Blackboard and find the module for “My Organizations Plus” on your Login page. Then click Edit users next to the name of your organization to manage enrollment for the organization.  Note that only the leader of the organization can add members.

Visit this link for complete instructions Blackboard Organizations

Q. I am a leader of a Blackboard organization and I have enrolled persons who are full-time faculty, part-time faculty and graduate students.  I have set up groups so that I can send targeted e-mail messages.   Now I want to post content but somehow limit access to the content based upon group membership — can I do this? 

A. It is possible to limit access to content based on group membership using an adaptive release rule. Here’s how:

1. From the control panel, post a content item in any content area.
2. Select Manage next to the item.
3. Select Adaptive Release.
4. On the Adaptive Release page under Membership, select the group(s) you want to give access to.
5. Scroll down and click Submit.

 Now the content will appear for the group(s) you selected, but others will not see it.