Making a Course Available
When a course is created, it is automatically set to be unavailable to students. Students do not have access to your course until you make it available. In order to make the course available:
1. From the Control Panel, select Course Settings under Course Options.
2. Click Course Availability.
3. Click "yes" to make the course available to students.
4. Click Submit.
Changing Availability of User
Three times a day the enrollment status of students in Blackboard courses associated with one or more CRNs is updated. Each student that remains banner-registered in that course is marked "available" and each student that drops the course via banner is marked "unavailable".
However, dropped students are only removed from a course three times a term. The first day of classes, the Monday after the add/drop period is over, and just before finals period students that are currently "unavailable" due to dropping the course are removed from the course.
When students are "unavailable" they still show up in the grade book, but they are not added to emails sent from the course and they cannot enter the blackboard course. In fact, they do not see them in their course list at all. However, unavailable students do remain in the gradebook (although they cannot access it).
You cannot change the availability of a user who has enrolled via banner. This is done by the automated system.
If your course is NOT associated with a CRN you must do all enrollment updates manually or contact webhelp for help with one-time batch enrollments.
If you wish to change the availability of a student or instructor that you have added manually, go to Control Panel, List Users, then select the properties button next to the name. At the bottom of that screen you can select "Make unavailable - this course only".