Blackboard
The Blackboard Learning Management System is an e-education platform that provides a course shell in which distance course information may be housed. Blackboard offers benefits for the face-to-face and blended classroom as well. You may access Blackboard from elearning.emporia.edu or through Buzz In.
Log onto Blackboard using your regular Novell user name and password (if you enter Blackboard from the Quick Link section on the Buzz In home page, you will not need to log on again to access the Blackboard system. The link at left will direct you to tutorials, tips, and other Blackboard help.
Blackboard Help for Faculty and Students
The links below will take you to various forms of tutorials and other documentation to help you get started with Blackboard. Still have questions? Contact the help desk at 341.5555.
- Logging on to Blackboard (video file)
- The My Homepage screen in Blackboard (video file)
Blackboard Help for Students
- How to Download and Upload Assignments (video file)
- How to use the Discussion Boards (video file)
- How to Submit an Assignment (pdf).
Blackboard Help for Faculty
- How to Make a Course Available (video file)
- How to Add an Assignment (video file)
- How to Download Grades (video file)
- How to Grade a Single Submission (video file)
- How to Override a Grade (video file)
- Safe Assign: Part I (video file)
- Safe Assign: Part II (video file)
- The Advanced Groups Tool (video file)
- Copy Forward Course Content (video file)