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Why not to unenroll

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Why not to unenroll

Depending upon how your institution has configured Blackboard, you may or may not have the option of removing or un-enrolling a user from your course by clicking on Users and then clicking the name to the left of the person and clicking Remove Users from Course. Don't do this. There are two reasons. First, it erases all traces that that person was ever enrolled in your course, all the homework, all the assignment, all the discussion board post. It's as if this student never existed. This is a horrible thing if there's a grade challenge. Going and removing the student erases them from your course. It's as if they've never existed. That's a bad thing. Second, if Blackboard is tied to your student information system, erasing a student or removing them from the course will actually just remove them from the course for a little bit, and the next time that your student information system pushes the student roster again, the student is going to be back. Many institutions actually disable the…

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