Hi aska!
I asked a professor if I could audit one of his S-summer courses and he agreed! But he seems to think that U of T has a special auditing process that would grant me access to the course on Blackboard. Googling “auditing courses u of t” only turns up the Slavic department’s protocol for this, and I’m not taking a Slavic course. Do you happen to know if professors have the ability to grant Student access to people not enrolled in the course, and if so, how do they do this (since this professor apparently doesn’t know how).
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hey there,
there doesn’t seem to be a formal process. according to the only university-wide policy i could find, “[i]f a faculty, school, or college decides to make courses accessible by auditors, the final determination of whether or not a person should be allowed to audit and whether or not space is available for an auditor in the course will be made by the instructor.”
basically, as long as the faculty and department that administers the course has allowed the possibility of auditing, the instructor can decide to allow or not allow auditors as he/she pleases. there’s no formal process that i can see; your prof should just check with the faculty that auditors are allowed. apart from that, the prof is the monarch of their own little domain.
best,
aska
P.S. in order to access a course on Blackboard, you have to be officially registered in the course on ROSI. you wouldn’t be able to access the course on Blackboard if you were auditing it. if you’re auditing the class and you just want supplementary notes and materials posted on Blackboard, i’d arrange to get them from the professor another way, maybe in person or through e-mail.
P.P.S. thanks for the love and ice-cream, but i’m a little worried you had a stroke at the end of your question??? i hope you’re okay.