Blackboard - Add an external user to your Blackboard course
 
An external user is any non-ECU user that will be participating as a Student, TA or Instructor in your Blackboard course.  If you need to add an external user to your Blackboard course, please complete the Blackboard External Access Request form within the Online Help Desk (in the Online Access Forms area).  This form requires the following information:  external user’s name, email address, external recipient’s affiliation, course ID, section number, semester, year, Blackboard level of access needed, reason for request and an expiration date (maximum of 1 year).  All requests will go through an approval process.  As part of this process, the Registrar’s office will contact the external user and they will be required to sign and return a confidentiality form via scan/email or fax.  The Blackboard team will be notified of all approved requests and will create the non-ECU account.  They will then email account information to the external user.  This process may take up to three to five business days to process.  *Please note, if there are multiple names in the external request, the Registrar must receive a confidentiality form from each person before this request is sent to the Blackboard team.
 
Moodle – Add an external user to your Moodle Course
 
An external user is any non-ECU user that will be participating as a Teacher, Teacher/Mentor,  Non-Editing Teacher, or Student in your Moodle course.  If you need to add an external user to your Moodle course, please complete the Moodle External Access Request form within the Online Help Desk (in the Online Access Forms area). This form requires the following information:  external user’s name, email address, external recipient’s affiliation, course ID, section number, semester, year, Moodle level of access needed, reason for request and an expiration date (maximum of 1 year).  All requests will go through an approval process.  As part of this process, the Registrar’s office will contact the external user and they will be required to sign and return a confidentiality form via scan/email or fax.  The Moodle team will be notified of all approved requests and will create the non-ECU account.  They will then email account information to the external user.  This process may take up to three to five business days to process.  *Please note, if there are multiple names in the external request, the Registrar must receive a confidentiality form from each person before this request is sent to the Moodle team.
 
Centra – Add an external user to your Centra Session
 
All requests to include non-ECU external users in your Centra meetings will now need to be placed through the Course Request form or the Meeting Request form located on the Centra website at: http://www.ecu.edu/centra/. The approval process will be different depending upon the external user being added.
 

• If the external user will be enrolled in meetings with only faculty/staff or the external user is participating as a student through global initiatives or a UNC consortium, the request will only have to be approved by the Centra Administrator.
  
  
• If the external user is not considered an “external student” that is being enrolled in a meeting of an ECU registered class, the request must also be approved by the registrar and the external user will be contacted by the registrar to sign and return a Confidentiality form.

 
Our goal is to complete these requests in less than 48 hours, however some requests could take longer. In order to avoid any delays in the creation of your Centra event, please try to submit these kinds of requests several days in advance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.