How do I get access to a bCourses site?

Students

If an instructor is using bCourses and has created and published a site for their course, students will get access once they register in CalCentral. Students who add the course after the instructor has published it may need to wait until the enrollment sync (a daily process that updates enrollment information in bCourses) to get access to the course site.

Students can lose access to a course site because of the following:

• You have officially dropped the course.
• The site was unpublished by someone with the Teacher role.
• Access to the course site is restricted before and/or after the term by the instructor.

Instructors

Instructors are able to log into bCourses and create a course site if the following criteria are met:

• To log in:
  • You have an active CalNet ID.
  • You have a current, teaching affiliation.
  • You are trying to access bCourses on or after your appointment date.
    
    
• To create a site:
  • You have been officially assigned as the instructor of record for a course (check with your department scheduler to confirm).

Instructors can lose access to a course site because of the following:

• The course has been cancelled, which will remove all the instructors and enrolled students from the course site.
  • Note: The course site is not deleted, it's just that the roster/enrollments has been removed. If you would like to get access back to the course site to retrieve course materials, we will need to confirm with the scheduler that the course has been cancelled before adding you back to it.
• You have been removed from your teaching assignment by the scheduler. As in the note above, the course site is not deleted.

GSIs

If an instructor is using bCourses and has created and published a site for their course, GSIs will get access once they are officially enrolled in CalCentral. GSIs should coordinate with their department scheduler to enroll them in the appropriate section(s). GSIs who are added to the course after the instructor has published it may need to wait until the enrollment sync (a daily process that updates enrollment information in bCourses) to get access to the course site.

Auditors/Guests

People who are not students, instructors, or staff at UC Berkeley must be sponsored for a CalNet Guest ID and then manually added to a bCourses site in order to get access. Please see this help article for instructions: How can a class auditor get access to bCourses?

Inactive Accounts

A user's bCourses account is inactivated when their CalNet account is disabled (after the person has exhausted all their grace periods) as described in the CalNet documentation: When are CalNet accounts disabled?