Students who have officially dropped a class ...and... who are no longer listed on the official student class rosters of the UofI Banner student information system should no longer be re-enrolled/added to Blackboard course sites after the UIC add/drop period ends.

(Add a couple of days for the last adds and drops to make it through the systems)

Please double-check that the student in question has officially dropped the class by looking at the official Banner class rosters -- the ITL has a link to UIC Class Rosters on the top right of the ITL home page (www.accc.uic.edu/itl) under the blue tab labeled "UIC in Session!".

The last day to add/drop classes at UIC is the 10th day of instruction (last Friday 9/4 for this fall 2009 term).

I would imagine that by now (a week later) if you make a student unavailable or otherwise un-enroll/remove a student from your class because he/she has dropped the class, such a student should no longer be re-enrolled/added again automatically.

*** Be very careful when removing students from Blackboard course sites because doing so effectively deletes the students grades and any record of activities that the student did in the Blackboard course site. When one removes a student, Blackboard posts a warning message and asks that you type "Yes" just to make sure that removing students and erasing all their associated data is what you really want to do.

It is in fact better and recommended that instead of removing the students you make them unavailable for your course, preserving their student data.

To make a student unavailable for your course:

1. Click on the “Control Panel”
2. Click on “List/Modify Users” located under “User Management”
3. Search for the user’s name either by last name, user name (UIC NetId), or email and click “Search”
4. Click on the “Properties” button next to the user’s name.
5. Under “#4 Role and Availability” select “No” located under “Available (this course only)” and click “Submit”

Making the student unavailable is very useful because if you ever need to give the student access to the course in the future, all you have to do is follow the directions given above and change “No” back to “Yes” and everything associated with the student will still be available.