Sending Email from Blackboard
Email is one of the most effective ways to contact your professor and peers in an online course. In this video we look at how you can easily send email from inside your course site....
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Adding your Blackboard profile image and bio
To add your image and update your profile, click on your name in the upper right corner once you are signed into Blackboard. Click on the first icon in the upper left labeled “Edit My Blackboard Profile” From here, you can link your Blackboard profile to your Facebook and/or Twitter account(s), or just upload a picture of yourself by clicking on the “Change Picture” icon. then click on the “Upload New” button to upload a new photo Then Select an...
Set up after-hours phone support through Google Voice
IDS has heard that many faculty are interested in providing students with a phone number that can be used to reach them after regular office hours. Making yourself accessible to students in the evening can be particularly helpful if you have non-traditional students in your courses who aren’t in a position to call or stop by your office during the day. At the same time, you may not want to share your home or cell phone number with students, lest...
Quickly identify and contact students who need help
Combining color-coded cells in the Grade Center table with the Email from Grade Center tool makes it easy to identify and get in touch with students who are having difficulty mastering your course material. Fortunately, it’s also easy to set up these features. First, let’s look at how we can color code a grade center column to make it easier to quickly identify a student who is slipping. Open the Grade Center in your course. Point to MANAGE at the...
