Accessing Blackboard
Before you Begin:
Faculty Email Accounts
As a new instructor you will need to obtain a University ID and a library card. Your department will help you obtain your email account. Once your email account is established, you will need to make sure that your name is listed as the instructor in the courses you are teaching. The information transfer process may take between 24 to 48 hours and you will not have access to your Blackboard (Bb) course shell until your name is propagated through the University, Info.Ship, and Bb systems.
Established instructors do not have to go through this process and should automatically be able to access their new courses once they have been generated by the Blackboard Enterprise System.
If you are having difficulty with your Shippensburg University email, you should contact Computer Services at x3499 or you can visit their help page at http://www.ship.edu/its/FAQs/index.html.
Student Email Accounts
Students should already arrive in class with a Shippensburg University email account. Students who have their email forwarded to other email services such as Hotmail or AOL may not receive email. Please emphasize the need to use their un-forwarded Shippensburg email account when communicating in Blackboard or with any communications with you.
Students having difficulty with their email accounts should first read the instructions listed on http://www.ship.edu/mail/stu_FAQs.html and if they are still unable to solve the issue should use this alternate email account to send a message (helpdesk@ship.edu). Students should include the error message they received during login. Students may also call X4357 or bring their student ID card to the Student Help Desk in Math & Computing Tech Center Room 054 for assistance.
Location [ View Movie ] http://blackboard.ship.edu
- From the Univeristy Home page, click on the Distance Education link
- Click on the Blackboard icon in the upper right-hand corner of the browser window.
- The Blackboard Log-in page will appear.
Logging in
You will log into the Blackboard system on the My Institution page. All users of Blackboard 7.x must have a UserID and a password to access the system. At Shippensburg University you are automatically assigned a username and password. Use the following configuration to sign onto our Blackboard system.
Blackboard Username and Password automatically created from enrollment database.
Note: Blackboard is a "one user, one account" system. Even if you have multiple roles at your institution, you will still only need one user account on Blackboard. For example, a graduate student with a teaching assistantship might be a student in a graduate course, but teaching an undergraduate course. This user will still only need one Blackboard user account; the appropriate role (Student or Instructor) will be assigned on a course-by-course basis.
The Portal Page
The portal consists of a set of tabs across the top of the web page that provides you with access to the various components of the Blackboard 7.x system.
Tab Explanations:
| My Institution: | This Login page contains various modules and information from the SU Blackboard system administrator. |
| Courses: | Links to the courses you are teaching. |
| Community: | List of organizations |
| Services: | Provides a link to University services |
| Lehman Library: | Links to the Lehman Library resources |
Accessing your Course
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