Are you New to Blackboard?
Blackboard is a Learning Management System application – a lot of words for a new teaching tool. It provides you with a ready-made course template so you can put your courses on the Internet without having to be a computer programmer. It also has useful Internet tools like e-mail and a discussion board built right into it… In the words of some of your colleagues, Walter Banzhaf and Jim Fuller:
With it, you can do old stuff in a new way:
- Post assignments
- Post grades (the online gradebook gives students access to their grades all semester)
- Create a repository for important course documents
- Receive (if you wish) assignments from students using the Digital Dropbox
- Send announcements to students
- Use E-mail; this is easy to do to any individual student or all students at once
It will also help let you do new stuff and old stuff differently such as:
- Anonymous in-course evaluations (called "surveys" in Bb) for student feedback at any time
- Teach interactively using the "Discussion Board"
- The Virtual Classroom- allows live office hours from anywhere, and group interaction, including graphics
- Group projects – groups can meet online using chat and discussions
Your first step is to obtain a user account. A University of Hartford email account is required to use Blackboard. Visit the Information Technology Services department in the Computer Center building, room 113 to request an email account. Bring your University ID card and a current class schedule. 24 to 48 hours after requesting your email account, you will be able to log into Blackboard.
How Do I Login to Blackboard?
- Go to http://blackboard.hartford.edu , and select Login
- Username: Enter your University of Hartford email username
- Password: Enter the last 4-digits of your University ID
Note to Instructors: In order to access your Blackboard courses, instructor assignments must be registered in the Banner system. If you need help getting listed in Banner, please contact the Registrar's Office at 768-4594.