Blackboard is an online course enhancement that is used for different kinds of courses at UALR, including distance-learning courses, hybrid courses, and face-to-face courses.
All major assignments for SCHL 3310 are posted on Blackboard, including all papers and journals. These assignments will be turned in to instructors via Blackboard.
Blackboard requires that you turn off pop-up blockers on your browser while you are using it.
To Log on to Blackboard:
Click this link
to go to the Blackboard web
site. Save the link on your web browser as a Bookmark or Favorite.
Blackboard
uses your NetID username and password.
Your NetID is
what you use to log on to the Wi-Fi network on campus. Your NetID is not
the same as the username you use for email or to log into Windows desktop
computers or BOSS, and your default password for NetID is not your T-number.
Every student at UALR automatically gets a NetID. If you have
never used your NetID before, you need to first log on to BOSS (using
your usual BOSS log-on procedure of your T-number and password), and go to:
Personal Information, then
View Usernames or Change Passwords on UALR Computing Systems
then check the box for Change Password to the right of your NetID. Enter
a new password, confirm it, and click the button at the bottom of the
page.
Now go back to Blackboard and log on using your NetID and NetID password.
On Blackboard,
once you have logged on, click on the link for our course, SCHL 3310. When
the next window opens in your browswer, you will see a column called Course
Tools on the left-hand side of the screen that lists these menu choices:
Assignments, Assessments, Calendar, Discussions, Goals, Learning Modules,
Local Content.
At different times during the semester, you will go to these course tools to get information and to complete assignments. The Assignments course tool contains the directions for each paper in the course. The Discussions tool contains the directions for the journal entries. The Calendar tool shows due dates for major assignments. And so on. Please click on each of the course tools to familiarize yourself with the resources the instructors have provided for you there.
Additional
Help
There is an "Orientation Guide" to Blackboard: http://ualr.edu/support/blackboard/index.php/home/getting-started/blackboard-orientation-guide/
Students having problems logging in to Blackboard that cannot be resolved by resetting the NetID password in BOSS should contact Blackboard Student Support http://ualr.edu/support/blackboard/ ; their email address is bbhelp@ualr.edu . Also notify the course instructors if you are having trouble. Remember to plan ahead, and do not wait until the night before an assignment is due to start working on it. It is not realistic to expect instructor assistance or tech support assistance in the wee hours of the morning right before an assignment is due. Plan ahead, so that a question or challenge does not become a crisis. As Ben Franklin wisely observed in Poor Richard's Almanac a long time ago, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Timeless advice.