Blackboard is an electronic course management system that encourages interaction between students and faculty as well as among students. Blackboard incorporates web pages, e-mail, discussion boards, chat rooms, small group areas, online quizzes, an online grade book, document sharing, and more to create an online learning environment.

• Introduction to Blackboard
• Why use Blackboard? 75 reasons
• Log in to Blackboard

Tutorials and Resources

Getting your Blackboard site up and running

• How to make your course available to students
• What to remind students about using Blackboard
• How to make special requests (e.g. adding TAs or guests, combining sections into one site; copying course content)

Getting started with Blackboard

• Navigating Blackboard
• Designing your course
• Adding documents

Video tutorials on Blackboard including tutorials for embedding video and images in an announcement, e-mailing students, and using discussion boards.

Other guides and resources on Blackboard supplied by ITD.

Guides and training for your students.

Known issues with Blackboard including problems with the grade center not loading, compatibility with Windows Vista, and e-mail announcements not working.

Blackboard request forms

• Request that materials be copied to new course
• Request one site for multiple courses
• Add a TA (or other DePaul user) to the course
• Adding an outside guest

ITD offers a variety of training options, including group classes, one-on-one consultations, departmental trainings and online tutorials. See a comprehensive list of ITD events here.