Emergency Faculty Guide to Blackboard

http://blackboard.hartford.edu

Overview

Blackboard is a Learning Management System – a lot of words for a great teaching tool. It provides you with a ready-made course template so you can put your courses on the Internet easily. It also has useful Internet tools like e-mail and a discussion board built right into it…and even allows you to create quizzes and post grades. This guide is designed to get you started with Blackboard in the unlikely event that the University is shut down for an emergency for a lengthy period of time – longer than two weeks.

Table of Contents

How Do I Log In to Blackboard?. 2

Changing Your Blackboard Password. 2

Online Blackboard Help. 2

Blackboard uses email. What’s my email address in Blackboard?. 3

Administration and Lifecycle of Blackboard Courses. 3

New Courses. 3

Enrollments. 3

Course Availability – Unavailable v. Available. 3

Getting to Your Blackboard Course. 3

The Control Panel: Your Menu for Building Blackboard Courses. 4

Communicating with Students: Email & Messages. 4

Send Email 4

Messages. 5

Blackboard’s Course Menu – Accessing Tools and Content 5

Adding an Announcement 5

Adding Course Content to your Blackboard Course. 6

Add Item: Adding Course files. 6

Add External Link: Adding Links to Websites. 6

Using Blackboard Forums for Class Discussions. 7

Setting up Forums: The Class Discussion Board. 7

Reading and Replying to Posts. 7

Adding and Retrieving Attachments.