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. UALR uses Blackboard Campus Edition 8 (CE8).
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, MUTH 2292.
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:
Course Content, Assessments, Assignments, Calendar, Discussions, Goals, Learning
Modules, Local Content, and Media Library.
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 instructor 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.