Allowing Guest Access To Your Course

Guest access provides users who are not officially enrolled in your course with access to course content. Instructors must manually enable guest access and then specify the content areas they would like to share with guests. There are three steps required to enable guest access:

1. Enroll Guests

  1. Get the UTORid of the user you would like to enroll as guests in your course;
  2. In the Control Panel click Course Tools, then UT Manage Users;
  3. Enter a UTORid in the text field, then click Go;
  4. On the next page, select Guest from the drop-down menu, then click Add.

2. Enable Guest Access

  1. In the Control Panel click on Customization, then Guest and Observer Access;
  2. Click Yes next to Allow Guest Access.
  3. Click Submit.

3. Share Content with Guests

Once guest access has been enabled you can specify the content areas you would like to make available to guests. Guests can only be granted access to content areas; they cannot have access to any Blackboard tools, like discussion boards or blogs.To share content:

  1. Go to the course menu and hover your mouse over the content are you would like to share to reveal the contextual menu button.
  2. Click the round button that appers to ther right of the content area's name, then select Permit Guests form the drop down menu.

Accessing Content as a Guest

Users who are not enrolled as guests via UT Manage Users can access courses by browsing the course catalogue

  1. Navigate to the portal page; 
  2. Click the Browse Course Catalogue link;
  3. Ensure that the search drop-down menu is set to ID, then search for your course using the course code.
  4. Click on the Course ID link to access course content.