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Contents
Adding New Users To Your Course
Role Definitions
Course Roles
Your FERPA Obligations
Organization Roles
Procedure
1. Log in to your Bb Learn account.
2. Select the class you wish to adjust enrollments.
3. In the Course Management menu, click to expand Users and Groups and select Users.
4. Next, click on the Find Users To Enroll button near the top of your main frame (This "button" does not look like a clickable element, click it anyway.)
5. Input the user’s Portal ID
6. The newly added users will have access appropriate to their role.
You'll find you have a wide variety of roles you can assign. To help decide which role works we provide the following guide. In almost all cases you'll only need Student, Course Builder, or Teaching Assistant.
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Role
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Grade Center
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Course Copy
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Manage Content
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Manage Users
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Send Email/
Messages
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Send Announcements
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Notes
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Course Instructor
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Default role for the instructor(s) of a course. Has full permissions
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Instructor
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Role for additional instructors. Has full permissions but cannot manage enrollments.
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Teaching Assistant
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Anyone charged with assisting the instructor, has full ability to create content and grade but may not manage users.
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Grader
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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An elevated role meant to assist in grading assignments.
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Course Builder
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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A role to assist with building and designing courses.
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Student
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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The normal role for students and the default setting. Use this setting for people auditing the course.
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Please use these tools responsibly. Never assign someone a greater role than they need to accomplish your goals.
Also, understand that adding anyone with permissions greater than student you are accepting responsibility that they meet all campus rules for FERPA compliance regarding non-Directory information.
Organizations have far fewer roles to assign.
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Role
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Grade Center
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Course Copy
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Manage Content
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Manage Users
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Send Email/
Messages
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Send Announcements
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Notes
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Organization Leader
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Someone with full access to the organization (edits and enrollments).
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Organization Builder
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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This role is for users charged with content creation (cannot add/remove users or view/edit anything in the grade center)
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Participant
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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General members of the organization. (Content consumers)
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5. Input the user’s Portal ID
Input the UserID (UserID is the first part of your @csuchico.edu email address) into the dialog box at #1 (OR click search to browse to the right UserID). Next, select the desired role with the drop-down box at #2. Then hit submit.
There currently is a problem with the Browse button. When adding a user to your course, DO NOT use the browse button, or you will get an error.
6. The newly added users will have access appropriate to their role.