As of Spring 2014 semester, all course shells created will be set up with self-enrollment turned off for students.

Course shell creation and enrollments will be controlled by an integration between the Banner Student Information System (SIS) and Blackboard Learn.

  • Course shells are now created automatically for all course sections each semester.
    • You will no longer need to contact the Campus Support Center to request your course shells. Each semester’s course shells will be ready for your preparations as the course sections are created in Banner. Generally they will be available mid-way through the previous semester.
    • Every section of a course now has its own course shell created. If you wish to have these course sections merged, you will need to contact the Campus Support Center to request that they be merged into a “parent course” which will allow you to manage the content, the course management, and the communications tasks for all sections of the course from one central location. This works much like you are used to, but it is just set up differently. The CSC Desk will need to know the CRNs of the sections you wish to have merged.
  • Course enrollments to the courses will take place automatically.
    • You will no longer need to enroll your roster yourself or have the students self-enroll. Enrollments will feed from Banner.
    • Enrollment changes from Adds and Drops will also come across automatically. Drops will change students' course availability to “unavailable” and as always dropped students should not be completely deleted/removed from the course in order to retain any course work they may have performed.
    • The default course enrollment option has been changed from Self-enroll to Instructor-enroll and it should remain that way for proper control of the automated enrollments.

Although you should not ever have to (and if the case arose that you needed to, the Campus Support Center should be notified first so we can look into why this happened.), this is the process for it.

To enroll students manually:
 

  • Go to your course Control Panel.
  • Click on Users and Groups. Click on Users.
  • Click on Enroll User and then Find Users to Enroll. If you know your student's OneTech username, you can put that in the username box, and click Submit. If you know multiple usernames, you can separate them with a comma, and click Submit. If you do not know the username, you can click the Browse button to search by different criteria to locate the student.