{"id":21256,"date":"2017-09-22T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=21256"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:37:02","slug":"blackboard-portal-whatever-people-usually-call-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=21256","title":{"rendered":"blackboard\/ portal\/ whatever people usually call it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i was waitlisted for a course but now i am enrolled in the course (yay). its been a week and the course hasn&#8217;t shown up on portal \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hi!<\/p>\n<p>yay! congrats on getting off the waitlist.<\/p>\n<p>as for when courses are added on to blackboard, that is an impenetrable mystery that literally no one has the answer for. if it&#8217;s been a while (and since it&#8217;s been a while since you&#8217;ve sent in this question, so&#8230; yeah it&#8217;s been a while) and you&#8217;re still not in the course on blackboard, then i would bring it up with the prof. hopefully by now, three weeks into the school year, you&#8217;re on the blackboard site.<\/p>\n<p>also remember that some profs don&#8217;t use blackboard. if you have one of these profs, then there is nothing to worry about! there isn&#8217;t even a portal group that you\u00a0<em>can\u00a0<\/em>be left out of!<\/p>\n<p>i hope this helps!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/CeTB2xQzMFjEI\/giphy.gif\" alt=\" gaming games portal portal 2 GIF\" \/><\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was waitlisted for a course but now i am enrolled in the course (yay). its been a week and the course hasn&#8217;t shown up on portal \ud83d\ude41 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hi! yay! congrats on getting off the waitlist. as for when courses are added on to blackboard, that is an impenetrable mystery that literally no one has the answer for. if it&#8217;s been a while (and since it&#8217;s been a while since you&#8217;ve sent in this question, so&#8230; yeah it&#8217;s been a while) and you&#8217;re still not in the course on blackboard, then i would bring it up with the prof. hopefully by now, three weeks into the school year, you&#8217;re on the blackboard site. also remember that some profs don&#8217;t use blackboard. if you have one of these profs, then there is nothing to worry about! 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