Guest Access to Course

Guests are allowed to view courses/organizations on Blackboard without an account.  Guests WILL NOT be able to see rosters, tools, and discussion board).

It is at the discretion of the instructor/leader to make their courses/organizations to be available to guests.

To allow guests to access your course/organization, three procedures may be required.

To make course/organization available:

• Go to Course/Organization Control Panel
• Customization -> Guest and Observer Access
• Section 1: Allow guests to access this course? Click Yes.
• Click Submit

To make course/organization tool available -

• Course/Organization Control Panel
• Tool Availability
• Make sure all boxes are checked for Guests

Making contents available to guests

For example – You have a menu link for syllabus, click on chevron button, you will see options of permit guests or deny guests.

Sharing your course to your guest -

• Have your guest to go this following address: https://my.gallaudet.edu,
• Click Courses Tab
• Type your Course ID in Course Search (i.e. PSY201)

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