Brightspace Course Enrollment and Access

Enrollments

• Students and principal instructors are enrolled into course sites in Brightspace by automation based on their registration / assignment to the course in Banner.

• Principal instructors are responsible for enrolling other faculty into their course. 

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• Don't see your course yet? Here's what to do:

  • Faculty:  If you are a principal instructor, contact the Registrar's Office  to make sure you have been assigned in Banner. (For SPH faculty, contact your curricular coordinator, Dr. Anika Daniels-Osaze, instead.  She will work with the Registrar on your behalf.)  Other course faculty must ask the principal instructor to enroll them.

  • Students: Check for holds on your account in Banner. Check the schedule below to see when students get access during Preview Week.

• Allow time to process changes: Once you register for a course in Banner. it may take up to four hours for automation to process registrations (during daytime hours). Nighttime registrations may not process until the next morning.

• Some users have automatic access: Deans, degree program chairs and key program support staff already have "cascading" access to all courses in their school / degree program. They don't need to be enrolled in a course to access it and they can enroll other faculty as needed. Learn more

Access: When does access begin? When does it end?

• Faculty

  • Principal instructors assigned to the course record in Banner will be enrolled and have immediate access once the course is created.

    • Learn dates on course creation

  • If you don't see your course yet, check with the Registrar to make sure the course has been requested by your program and that you have been assigned.

• Students

  • "Preview Week": Access begins one week before the official start date of the course itself as listed in Banner. Merged courses will open at the earliest of the start dates for the merged course sections. This is a SUNY policy to allow students to view key information in the course syllabus such as schedule, exam dates and requirements for purchasing items such as online licenses and texts.

  • Students can access courses after the end date. Brightspace course tiles on the My Courses grid will display the word "Closed" once the course's official end date (as listed in Banner) has arrived. Merged courses will display the "Closed" label when the earliest of the merged course end dates has arrived. Students retain access to their courses after the course ends and after it is marked "Closed".  This is done so that students can return to access key learning objects when studying advanced concepts that build upon earlier curricula and when preparing for comprehensive exams.  As long as the settings for an assignment or quiz still allow submissions, students are able to submit late assignments, quizzes, etc after a course ends.