Managing Users in the Virtual Community

When requesting a VC, you will be enrolled as the Owner of the community.  This role provides the same access as an Instructor of a course offering with the following additional permissions:

• Ability to add owner(s) (i.e. designate alternate owners).
• Ability to add community members in a Secondary Instructor or Student role.  These roles within SLATE have the same permissions as a regular academic course offering.
• Ability to add a demo student via SLATE Self-Service.
• Ability to add and remove members individually.
• Ability to add members through a bulk file import.

 Note: Only Owners can enrol users in a virtual community.

Individual Enrolments

• See Adding Participants through the Classlist Tool. 

Automatic Bulk Enrolments

• See Automatic Bulk Enrolments

Manual Bulk Enrolments

Step One: Create an Enrolment File using Excel.

• Create a New File in Excel.  For instructions click here.
• Modify the file to include the following information for all users to be enrolled:

NOTE: Column headers are not required.  A sample file in Excel would appear as:

• Save the file in Comma Separated Value (CSV) format. For instructions click here.
  • On Mac save the file as Comma Separated Values (.csv).
  • On PC save the file as CSV (Comma Delimitated).

Step Two: Enroll Participants through the Classlist Tool.

• Within SLATE, go to the Virtual Community participants will be enrolled into.
• Select Classlist on the course navbar.
• From the Add Participants drop-down select Import users from a file on your computer.
• Select the Browse (Open File)  button.
• Locate the file on your local computer and click Open. 
• If you would like to send an email to users select the checkbox to Send email to existing users under Import Options.
• Click Import.
• If any errors are reported, fix the file and reload.

Removing Participants 

• See Adding and Removing Participants through the Classlist tool.