Enrolling & Unenrolling Users in a Course

The Classlist tool is a central area in OWL Brightspace for managing course participants. It provides a list of course members with their respective roles in the course, such as Learner, Instructor, Facilitator, etc.

You can use Classlist to view who is currently enrolled in the course, enroll new users and send emails to them. However, it's important to note that certain roles, such as Learner and Instructor, must be enrolled through the Office of the Registrar.

Please take caution when assigning elevated permissions (e.g. Facilitator) to others as they will have access to add/remove/change content and settings and enroll additional people into the course. To learn more about course roles, please refer to the Roles and Permissions page.

If you need to add a guest or individual without a Western ID to your OWL Brightspace course, please read how to initiate an Associated Person request.

Enrolling Users

  1. Log into OWL Brightspace using your Western ID and password. 
  2. Go to the course you wish to add the person. 
  3. Click "Classlist" from the “Manage Course“ drop-down menu at the top of the page. 
  4. Click "Add Participants" then click "Add Existing Users". 
  5. Search for the name of the person you wish to enroll. 
  6. In the search results, find the person you wish to add. 
  7. Select the checkbox next to the person’s name. 
  8. Select the appropriate role from the “Select a Role” option. Please refer to the “Roles and Permissions” page to choose the appropriate level of permission for the member.
  9. If there is a section in the course, select the appropriate section from the “Select a Section” options. 
  10. Click the “Enrol Selected Users” button.  
  11. If you wish to add more people or add the same person to different sections, click the “Add More Participants” button and repeat the process from step #5 above. 
  12. If you are finished adding people, click the “Done” button to be taken back to the Classlist. 


Note: If your course has multiple sections and you want the new participant to be able to view more than one section in your course, please repeat the process above to add that same person to those other sections.

Please inform the added person of their enrollment in the course.  If they are new users of Brightspace, you can share the following information with them on how to get started and access support.

Unenrolling Users

  1. Log into OWL Brightspace using your Western ID and password. 
  2. Once you are logged in, go to the course where you want to remove the person.
  3. Click on "Classlist" in the "Manage Course" drop-down menu located at the top of the page.
  4. You can search for the person's name using the search bar provided, or you can select their name from the list.
  5. Next, choose "unenroll" from the menu options located above the enrolled list table.
  6. Finally, confirm your selection to save the changes.

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