Thursday, December 2, 2021

Why are All of My Enrolled Students Not in My Blackboard Course?

At the start of every semester, there may be cases in which your roster of students in E-Services doesn't match the roster in your Blackboard course. The following information may help explain those discrepancies. As students add, drop, and change courses just before and just after the start of a new term, there can be a 2-3 day delay between when they submit a schedule change and when that change is reflected in Blackboard.  For example, students who add a course on Friday may not yet have access to the Blackboard shell for that class on Sunday, but they will likely see the course appear on Monday. Without getting too technical, schedule changes in PeopleSoft have to be processed locally and then each day's changes are updated overnight with UH Central/Main. Only after that update completes will the job be executed that eventually adds the student to or removes them from specific Blackboard classes.