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A course web site provides students with 24-hour access to course materials in one central location. Materials can be accessed from any computer that is connected to the Internet, and access is restricted to enrolled students only.
It is very easy for instructors to copy materials from one class section to another. Once a Blackboard site has been created, materials can easily be "recycled" used for a future instance of the course. Since old course pages remain available to instructors, Blackboard provides instructors with a comprehensive record of their past class activity.
Since Blackboard communicates with the registrar's system, faculty does will not need to keep tabs of changing student enrollments during the first weeks of the term. Access for currently enrolled students is handled automatically.
TAs, administrative assistants, or library liaisons can be added to Blackboard sites to help faculty build the site or to monitor or grade student work.Blackboard offers a number of collaborative tools which can be used to facilitate student work: on-line discussion boards, group areas, blogs and wikis. Blackboard also contains tools which make course administration easier: an e-mail tool, an on-line gradebook, on-line quizzes and surveys, and a tool to facilitate the collection of electronic documents from students.
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A wide variety of materials can be posted within Blackboard. Text can be composed directly into any area (Announcements, Course Information, Assignments, etc.).
Word documents, Web links, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, data-sets, images, even audio and video files or podcasts can be posted within any section of the course site.
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Yes, if new instructors cannot log into Blackboard, the Blackboard Support team can assist with access. Contact contact OTM with your name, course, and Suffolk ID number (if known).
On occasion, access to Blackboard might be delayed for new employees due to the process of integrating personnel accounts into various information systems.
How do I set up guest access for my course?
Blackboard at Suffolk is not setup to allow guest access. It is only set up to allow access to courses for Suffolk instructors , other course staff, and enrolled students. There may be times when instructors wish to allow non-enrolled students and others to access course materials, such as during course selection and at the beginning of term. Guest access is a course setting that allows all Blackboard users and users who log in as "Guest" to access courses. Instructors can allow guest access to an entire course or just select portions of a course, and can turn guest access on and off as necessaryauditing. In such cases, please contact OTM with the guest's name, course and contact information. OTM will create a student account for the users and them to your course.
I seem to have two Blackboard sites for my course - can these be joined?
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