Faculty can complete and submit the online Blackboard Course Account Request Form to request a Blackboard course shell for use in their course.
Blackboard is a tool that facilitates the creation of Web-based educational environments. It does this in three ways, by providing an interface allowing the design of the presentation of the course (color schemes, page layout, etc), providing a set of educational tools to facilitate learning, communication, and collaboration, and providing a set of administrative tools to assist the instructor in the process of management and continuous improvement of the course. Blackboard's goal is to provide a set of tools useful for a broad range of teaching methodologies, yet make it easy to experiment with new techniques. Blackboard can be used to create entire online courses or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses, and requires minimal technical expertise on the part of the developer of the course and on the part of the student.
Accessing Blackboard:
Blackboard is web-based, so there is no software to install (other than a Web browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer) on the computers used by the students or instructors. Requirements are: