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How do I add and drop students and other users?

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Use the People tool to manage student, teacher, teaching assistant, and other user enrollments in a course

To add a new user from the People tool

  1. Open the People tool for the desired course.
  2. Click Tools in the toolbar.
  3. Select Manage enrollments.
    • If you don't see this in the toolbar, you don't have sufficient permissions.
    • If the course has a Base Course, Buzz lets you choose to make changes to either the Base or to the course you're working in. Enrollments should be added to Derivative courses, not Base Courses, and aren't inherited from Base courses. Base courses should be used to house content, not enrollments.
  1. Click Add [plus sign] in the toolbar.
  1. Scroll to the bottom of the Add enrollments dialog and click Create a new user. This appears only if you have sufficient permissions.
  1. To create a new user, provide:
    • The first and last name (required).
    • A username (required).
    • A password (required).
    • An external ID (this is a unique identifier for the user and is frequently the ID from an external system).
    • An email address.
  2. If any User Metadata fields have been added to your domain, they appear at the bottom of this window (Transferred in this example).
  3. Click Create once you've found or created the user.

The new user is automatically added to the Add enrollments screen.

To add an enrollment for an existing user

  1. Open the People tool for the course you want to work with.
  2. Click Tools in the toolbar.
  3. Select Manage enrollments.
    • If you don't see this in the toolbar, you don't have sufficient permissions.
    • If the course has a Base Course, Buzz lets you choose to make changes to either the Base or to the course you're working in. Enrollments should be added to Derivative courses, not Base Courses, and aren't inherited from Base courses. Base courses should be used to house content, not enrollments.
  1. Click Add [plus sign] in the toolbar.
  1. If there are multiple roles available in the course, a Choose role dropdown appears. Use it to indicate which role permissions you want this user to have.
  2. Use the Find user fields to search for and select users already in your domain. You are provided four Find user fields be default, but you don't have to complete all of them.
  3. If you want to add more than four enrollments, click Add another user to add additional Find user fields. If you have sufficient permissions, you can click Create a new user to add users to your domain.
  4. When you've selected the users you want to enroll, click Enroll.

The selected users are enrolled and appear in your Manage enrollments screen.

To drop a user's enrollment

  1. Open the People tool for the course you want to work with.
  2. Click Tools in the toolbar.
  3. Select Manage enrollments.
    • If you don't see this in the toolbar, you don't have sufficient permissions.
  1. Find the user(s) you want to drop and check the box next to their name(s).
  2. Click Drop [garbage can] in the toolbar.

For the selected users, the enrollments in the course are dropped. The users still exist in your domain.

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  • If you don't see Enrollments in your toolbar or the Create a new user button in the Add Enrollments window, but should have one or both of these permissions, contact your system administrator.
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