Making a Course Available for an Individual Student

Question

How do I make a course available for an individual student or set number of students? 

Environment

• Blackboard

Information

All students will eventually lose access to their courses after the end of the semester. If enough time has expired since the course completed, there may not be a need to adjust the existing student access to the course as it will be unavailable for everyone.  In that case, you would only open the course for the student(s) that need the access and then set the start and end date accordingly. 

Answer

Adjust existing student access

You will start by setting all other students Enrolment Status to Unavailable. This needs to be done for each student. 

If you have a large number of students in the course, submit a request to IT Support to have the Enrollment Status for this course adjusted for all students in bulk. 

1. Navigate to the desired course.
2. Click Users and Groups from your Course Management panel. 
3. Click Users. 
4. Click the  next to each student username and select  Change User's Availability in Course. 
5. Locate Available(this course only) and change Yes to No. 
   • Keep the Enrollment Status as Yes for those students that still need access. 
6. Click Submit and repeat the steps above for all other students.  

Change Course Availability

1. Click Customization from the Course Management panel. 
2. Click Properties. 
3. Scroll down to Set Availability and change to Yes. 
4. Next, locate Set Course Duration and click Select Dates. 
5. Adjust the Start Date and End Date as desired.