The course Participants list allows users to see all of the users enrolled in a class. The participants can be filtered by role, group, enrollment, and level of inactivity. Different roles on eClass have different options on the page with students often only able to see the members of the groups they are part of; Instructors having options to enroll additional users, download a list of students, as well as send participants a message.

Accessing the Participants List:

1. Log onto eClass and go to your course page.
   
   
2. Click the Participants link at the top of your course page:
   
   
   
   
3. You will then be taken to a page containing the list of participants, which lists all participants, including all students, instructors, TAs, designers, etc. in a course.
   
   
   
   

Student-view of the Participants List

Students by default can see all the names of all the other students in their course. In courses where group modes have been set, the list will be pre-filtered to show the name of any assigned groups and only the students in groups that the student is a part of. The page may be configured to allow visibility of ONLY the students within a student's assigned groups:

Instructors who do not want students to see each other's names in their course can follow these instructions.

Filtering the Participants List:

1. You can filter the Participants list in several ways, including by role, group, enrollment method, and time of inactivity. Filter controls are found directly above the participants list. After selecting a filter type, a dropdown appears to select specific criteria. You can specify one or more criteria, the example below would return a list of participants enrolled as either Student or Auditor. You can reset a filter by clicking the 'x' on the right, or clear all of your filters using the 'Clear filters' button.
   
   
   
   
2. You can also filter the list of participants by the initials of the participants' first names and/or last names, using the alphabet lists for first names and last names right above the list of participants. For example, if 'First name' is set to All and 'Surname' is set to S, then it will search for participants that have a surname that starts with the letter S. Setting both to All resets it. This can be used in conjunction with the other filters. 
   
   

Showing All Participants:

If you have more than twenty participants in a class, then, by default, the Participants list will be separated into pages, with twenty participants maximum per page.

If you want to show all of the participants in your course on one page, go to the bottom of the Participants list and click on Show all users (with "users" replaced with the number of participants in your class).

If you want to go back to showing 20 per page, click on Show 20 per page at the bottom of the Participants list.

Selecting Participants:

To perform some tasks, such as downloading a list of your participants, or sending a message to some of the participants in your class, you will first have to select participants.

To select all of your participants, check to see if your Participants list is one page, either through having twenty or fewer Participants, or through clicking on Show all users, as shown in the previous section. If it is only one page, the easiest way of selecting all of the participants in your course is to click on the checkbox just above the list, left of "First name / Last name". Checking this checkbox will select all of your students.

If your course has more than twenty participants and is separated into pages, the best way to select all of the participants in your class is to go to the bottom of the Participants list and, at the bottom-left of the page, click on the Select all [number of] users button, and that will select every user in your course.

You can also select only certain participants by clicking on the checkbox to the left of a participant's name.

Note: If you select multiple participants on one page and then go to another page of participants, the participants that you selected on the previous page will NOT remain selected when you go to the new page. Make sure that you are showing all of the participants on one page, as detailed in the "Showing all participants" section of this article if you want to select individual participants that would otherwise be on different pages if they were separated by a maximum of twenty participants per page.

Downloading Data:

Instructors can download a table of information about the participants of your course, which includes their first name, last name, CCID, and email addresses.

To download participants' data, select the users that you want to export, as detailed in the previous section, and then in the "With selected users..." dropdown, choose a file type option for downloading the table data under "Download table data as", and it will download to your computer.

The download options include:

• Comma-separated values (.csv): a text file that separates values using commas. The first line contains all of the column headers (first name, surname, email address, CCID) and all subsequent lines are the data of participants, in the order of the first line. Can also be used in spreadsheet programs such as Excel.
• Microsoft Excel (.xlsx): an Excel spreadsheet file that can be opened by Excel or programs that can open Excel spreadsheets.
• HTML table: An HTML file that contains a table with all of the participants' data in it. Can be opened in a browser, or the table can be used in other HTML files, such as webpages.
• Javascript Object Notation (.json): a data interchange format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of a list of key-value pairs (such as {"First name": Tara, "Surname": Bell}). This is mostly of use to computer programmers, who often use JSON to represent and use data in their code.
• OpenDocument (.ods): a spreadsheet file format used in programs such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice, among others.
• Portable Document Format (.pdf): A file format for documents made out of text, graphics, and other elements.

For example, if you choose PDF, you get a .pdf file containing a table of data for the students you selected.

While choosing a comma-separated values file will create a .csv file that can be viewed as text or in a spreadsheet.

Adding Additional Participants:

The process of adding additional participants, such as TAs, designers, and additional instructors, to a course is detailed in the articles Adding Additional Users to my eClass Course and Enrolling Students in eClass Courses.

Note: If the eClass course is a Bear Tracks credit course, you should NOT try to manually enroll students into your eClass course. In all regular Bear Tracks sections on eClass, students are automatically enrolled by the IST eClass Support team as a part of the automated course creation system. As an instructor, you will never need to enroll regular credit students manually in your course.

Messaging Participants:

If you wish to message some of your course participants, refer to the article Sending Messages to Students for more information.

Note: If you wish to send a message to all of the participants in your course, we recommend that you use the Announcements forum, which, by default, is present at the top of every course. Course participants are automatically subscribed, and they will have the messages posted there forwarded to their email accounts. For more information on using the Announcements forum, please see the article Posting Course Announcements.