NMT Blackboard 8.0 Administrator's Guide |  |
NMT Blackboard 8.0 Administrator's Guide | |
We do not allow users to add themselves to the system. There are two reasons for this:
We require that anyone using Blackboard must have a Banner ID, and a TCC account. Their Blackboard login name must be the same as their TCC login (although Blackboard keeps its own passwords).
Our license allows only a limited number of user slots, where each user uses one slot for each class in which they are enrolled.
In former years, when we allowed self-registration, some users used far more slots than they really needed, and pushed us close to the license limit.
Use the procedure below to add a single new user account. Generally this will be done by the User Consultant on duty. You will need this procedure relatively infrequently; most user accounts will be created automatically using the script described in Section 14.1, “Bb8accts: Create Blackboard accounts for all TCC users”.
The Blackboard user name must be the same as the TCC account name.
Procedure 23. Adding a user in the Web interface
You will need to know the Banner ID for each student to be added. Nobody without a Banner ID is allowed to use Blackboard.
Connected to userhost and within
ucsh, issue this acctmngr command to find out the TCC
account name, first name, and last name
corresponding to the banner ID 9xxxxxxx
acctmngr -fi 9xxxxxxxx
In your web browser, log in to Blackboard as nmt_domain.
Under the tab, click the link on the left, then click the sub-tab.
Click the button.
Enter the user's information. Four fields are mandatory: (same as their TCC account name), , , and .
If the user is present, you can let them type their own password. If not, type some random garbage; the user will have to come by the Help Desk to get it changed before they can use their account.
Other fields you may want to use:
: Nickname, maiden name, married name, etc.
: E.g., “Dr.”, “Ms.”.
: E.g., “PhD”, “Ret.”.
: Same as the TCC
account name, plus “@nmt.edu”.
If a user prefers to receive email elsewhere, you can change it later using the procedure described in Section 11.2, “Editing the user record”.
The pull-down menu is initially set to . If you don't want this user to be able to log in yet, pull this menu down and select .
Click . You will see an Add User Confirmation page; click on the button.
Back in the User Manager page, click on the button.
Run a query for the user you just created. For this procedure, see Section 11.4, “Search for user records”.
On the Query Results page, click on the username to go to the “User Information” tab.
Click the button at the bottom of the page. This brings up the “Edit User” page.
In the field labeled , delete the text
“WebCT” and replace it
with the text “Banner”.
In the field labeled , delete the text and replace it with the user's nine-digit Banner ID.
Click .
Sometimes, saving this page will fail, because the user has set a password that Blackboard doesn't like. (You would think that Blackboard would have complained about the password when the user set it, but apparently the rules on this page are different.) In that case, enter a new random password and click .
If the user is not present when their account is created, they will have to come to the Help Desk to get their password set to a value they know. To change a password, see Section 11.2, “Editing the user record”.