Classlist

What is the Classlist Tool?

Use the Classlist tool to view who’s enrolled in your course, check users’ online statuses, send email messages, view shared locker files, and read their blogs if they have one.

Depending on your permissions, the Classlist tool enables you to add or remove course participants, change user roles, create new users, and import users from a TXT or CSV file. You can also use the options in the context menu beside each user’s name to view user progress and view group enrollments.

Accessing the Classlist Tool

The Classlist link can be found within the Course Admin link on the navigation bar.

Location of the Classlist link on a DE course site

Using the Classlist Tool

For the most up-to-date information on how to use the Classlist tool, please follow the links below to the Brightspace Help documentation site.

Enroll a new user
- Please note that students are automatically enroled into CourseLink daily based on their current enrolments on record with the Registrar’s Office
- This options should be used primarily to add teaching assistants, additional instructors, or guests to your course
- DE instructors will only be able to add TAs
Enrol users from a TXT or CSV file
Unenrol users
Impersonate a user
- Please note that this option is only available to the Instruct-build-grade role and can only be used on users with the Demo Student role
Check user progress
Flag a learner in the Classlist
Print Classlist

The Classlist tool is a convenient starting point for viewing information about the users in your course site. For example, you can check who’s online, view profiles, and check group enrollment.

You can also view the Enrollment Statistics, which provides a summary of course enrollments and withdrawals, as well as access the User Progress tool.

Below you will find some additional useful information about the Classlist tool pertaining to User Progress, Enrolment Statistics, and Class Engagement.

Viewing User Progress

How to access View Progress for a specific student from the Classlist tool

Use this feature to view the progress of users enrolled in your courses. For more information on User Progress, see User Progress.

On the Classlist page, click View Progress from the context menu (down-facing arrow) of the user you want to view
To view progress on a specific progress indicator, click the indicator from the Reports List and the report will display under Report Details
Click the expandable and collapsible links to expand or collapse the report detail

Viewing Classlist enrollment statistics

How to access Enrolment Statistics from the Classlist tool

The Enrollment Statistics area provides a summary of course enrollments and withdrawals.

On the Classlist page, press the Enrolment Statistics button.

Class Engagement

The Class Engagement tool provides instructors with a quick overview of how engaged their students are with CourseLink. The tool helps instructors identify students who may be at risk, but it is not fool-proof. While it can inform an instructor who has or has not accessed their site or posted in discussions, it cannot inform an instructor how long a student spent on their site when it was accessed or what the quality of their discussion contribution may have been. This will still require a human eye and informed analysis.

To launch the Class Engagement tool, click Classlist on your navigation bar (or from Course Admin), then click the Class Engagement button.

To alert instructors about low class engagement, a notification tile indicates the number of learners who have not visited the course in the last 7 days. Clicking the tile filters the class list to display the learners who have not accessed the course during this period of time.
To view course progress at a glance, a bar chart tile displays the grade distribution within the course, with each bar representing a grade range. Clicking a bar filters the class list to display the learners in that grade range. To dismiss the filter, click Clear. NOTE: Since most course sites grade systems are set to automatically score empty grades as zero, the grades displayed are not reflective of their overall grade in the course to date, but rather of their current final grade.
Clear visual indicators display when filters are applied to metrics. For example, clicking a range in the grade distribution tile displays the Current grade filter with the specified grade range. Instructors can dismiss an active filter they are no longer interested in by clicking X in the filter.
If multiple, discontinuous grade ranges are selected in the grade distribution tile, the Current grade filter displays without a grade range.
Use the search bar to filter the class list by learner name. You can type a name, user ID, or learner number.
A class list in table format displays the following information for each enrolled learner:
- Name (full name and CourseLink username)
- Current grade
- Last visited (date of the last course visit)
- Discussions (indicates the number of threads started by each user and the number of replies posted by each user)
Clicking a table entry displays more information in the Class Progress tool. For example, clicking a user’s name displays the Progress Summary in the Class Progress tool, which provides detailed information about course progress using tracking indicators such as quizzes, surveys, and login history

Email Classlist

Select the Email Classlist button.
Select the tab for the type of user that you would like to send the email
to (either All, Students, Instructors, Teaching Assistants, or Guests).
Click the Send Email button at the bottom of the page.
A pop-up menu will appear where you can draft your email. The users
selected in the previous step will be listed as Bcc recipients by default.

5. Enter a title in the Subject line and add your email text under the Body section.

6. There is a an option to upload Attachments below the the Body section. Note that file sizes are limited to 10 MB.

7. Once you are ready to send your email, scroll back up to the top and click the Send button.

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Classlist – View user pronouns next to names to further personalize learning

Classlist can now display users’ pronouns next to their names.

Users can choose whether to display their pronouns to other users in the Account Settings > Pronouns menu. They must check the Allow others to see my pronouns check box for their pronouns to display in Classlist.

Previously, the only location where pronouns displayed was in a user’s profile card.

When pronouns can be found in the classlist. It is to the right of the students name in a red box.

Classlist – Easily access and view sections for specific users

Instructors can now use the Classlist tool to view groups and sections. Previously, instructors could only view section enrollments using various filtering and sorting work flows or by searching within the Sections tool.