Learn more about the built-in Blackboard tools available for communicating with your students. There are also several learning tool integrations (LTI) available for communicating with students and building community. Please reach out to Academic Computing with any questions.
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Notifications
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From Blackboard Support: New, active course announcements appear the first time students enter your course. Students need to close the New Course Announcements window before they can view course content. After students close the window, it won’t appear again. If you post new announcements, the window appears again with only the new announcements.  |
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Open the course
Look for the Announcements tab and select Create Announcement
Type a Title, which appears at the top of the announcement pop-up.
Select Recipients (if you use groups, you may choose to send an announcement only to specific groups. All course members are selected by default)
Type your message.
Select Send an email copy to recipients to send an email of the announcement to anyone in the recipients list.
Select Schedule Announcement if you are posting this before the day and time you want students to see this announcement or if you want the announcement to be hidden after a certain date.
Select Save.
Messages
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Open the Messages page from the course navigation.
Select the New Message button
in the right corner.
Select the recipients for your message.
Select the Allow replies to the message to allow other users to respond to your message from within Blackboard.
Type your message.
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You can include hyperlinks in any textbox within Blackboard, including emails and announcements, by following these steps:
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