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.
Announcements
Announcements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical to course success. Add announcements for these types of course activities:
- Due dates for assignments and projects
- Changes to your syllabus
- Corrections/clarifications of materials
- Exam schedules
- Open the course
- Look for the Announcements 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
The messages tool allows you to send emails to other people in your course without launching a separate email program and having to look up the student emails. You can send email to individual users, the entire class, or to groups of users.
- 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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