Tag Archives: contact

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...

Send email

Sending email to students enrolled in your Blackboard course site is easy.  Emails can be sent to individual users or to groups of users within the course (for example, all Teaching Assistants).  Each time you send an email you also receive a copy of it.

Note: Email cannot be sent to anyone who is not enrolled in the specific course.

To send email from within a course site …....

Add an announcement

Announcements are a great way to provide timely course information and stay in touch with your students. By default, a course announcement will appear on a student’s My Knowledge page in the My Announcements box and My Courses box, as well as on the course homepage. Students will also be automatically notified by email when an announcement is posted. Students using the Blackboard Mobile app for iPhone or Android will receive a notification as well....