How do I find the course I am supposed to enroll in?
Your Instructor will give you the Course ID and Title of the course in class. These are not always the same as the official registrar ID and title of the course. Double check them when searching.
Important Reminder: Blackboard course account and course enrollment are not connected in any way to the Registrar’s official enrollment in a class. You must be officially registered in a course before enrolling in it in Blackboard. Enrolling in a class in Blackboard does not mean you are actually enrolled in the course itself, just that you are using Blackboard for that course.
- To Enroll in a course, you first need to search for it in the Course Search box. First, click the Courses tab.
- This will take you to the Courses Search box where you should put in the course id or course name of the course.
Q: What if I can’t find the course?
A: Try some alternate search strategies:
- Try searching for just the first part of the course id, e.g. PHIL, instead of PHIL101a_fall06, so you will get a bigger search result list to pick from
- Try searching for a single word in the course title, e.g. Philosophy, Ancient, Cinema
- Try searching for part or the start of the word in the course title, e.g. searching for “cine” will return both “Cinema” and “Medicine”
- Try searching for a word that is or might be in the course description
- Try the advanced search to search for all courses for that Instructor: choose the Username button and then search for your Instructor’s name
- If still not found, and if you are sure the course id and name are correct, contact your Instructor and ask them if they have made the course available yet, or if they have set dates on enrollment. Instructors can see their courses even if you cannot, so they may have forgotten to make a course available or limited it by dates for students.
- When you find the course in the list, click the Enroll button on the far right side of the course name.
->(Do not click the course link yet, or you will get an “Access Denied” error, since you are not yet enrolled in the class. Click the enroll button to enroll.)
I see an Access Denied error when I click on the title of the course I want to enroll in.
To avoid seeing the image below, click the Enroll button on the far right side of the course name, not the title of the class, when you want to add a new course.
See the question: How do I find the course I am supposed to enroll in? for further instructions about enrolling.