Lets' begin by learning how to use the email tool
in Blackboard.
NOTE: Your USC email address has already been set
up for you in the Blackboard learning environment.
Insure you are logged into Blackboard and you are
in your course.
Follow the steps below to open the Communication
Center:
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Step 1
Open a course Website for a course that
you are participating in.
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Step 2
Click Communication on the course menu.
Any combination or all of the following communications tools may be
available to you in your course. Today we will review the
primary tool of "Send Email" and "Discussion Board".
The other
tools will be reviewed by your instructor as he/she implement them in
your course.
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Send Email
provides information on how
to send email to other participants in a course.
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Discussion Board
explains how to
engage in asynchronous on-line conversations with others in a
course.
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Collaboration Tools
explains how to participate in real time lessons and
discussions.
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Roster
Discusses how to search a participant roster and view lists of
students, instructors, and teaching assistants associated with a
specific course.
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Group Pages
explains how to access communication functions available to
groups created by the Instructor. Instructors may group students
together in study groups, projects, or other course activities.
Course Send Email
Users can access
email functions for specific courses and organizations through the
Send Email page. From this page users can send email to the following
people in a course:
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Fellow classmates
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Instructors
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Teaching
Assistants
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Groups within a
course
"Send Email" allows
users direct access to course participants and can also be accessed
from the "Tools" box on the "My Institution" area.
Note: The Send
Email function is different from Web email, an optional service that
allows users to access their Web email account through Blackboard.
Follow the steps
below to open the Send Email page:
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Step 1 Open a
course Web site for a course that you are participating in.
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Step 2 Click
Communication on
the course menu.
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Step 3 Click
Send Email from the Communication Center.
The following groups
are available to send email to from the "Send Email" page:
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All Users Sends
email to all users in the course or organization.
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All Groups Sends
email to all of the groups in a specified course or organization.
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All Teaching Assistants
Sends email to all of the Teaching Assistants in a
specified
course.
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All Instructors
Sends email to all of the instructors for a specified course.
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All Observers
Sends email to all of the observers for a specified course.
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Select Users
Sends email to a single user or select users in a specified course.
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Select Groups
Send email to a single group or select groups in a course.
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Select Observers
Sends email to a single observer or select observers in a
specified course.
Send Email to Users
Send Email enables
users to send email to fellow classmates, Instructors, Teaching
Assistants or Groups within a course. Users can create a message and
choose who will receive it on the Select Users page.
Follow the steps
below to open the All Users page:
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Step 1 Open a
course Web site for a course that you are participating in.
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Step 2 Click
Communication on
the Course Menu.
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Step 3 Click
Send Email from
the Communication Center.
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Step 4 Click
Select Users.
You can now select
the person or persons that you would like to send your email to, enter
a subject and your message and send your email.
If you wish to add
an attachment such as your homework to your email, simply scroll down
to the "add attachment" section and click add.
You will then be
prompted to brows your computer for the file you wish to add.
When you have
selected your file, click the "open" button
then
click the "submit" button.
You will be returned
to the email main page where you can scroll down and see your file in
the attachment list. You can now send your email by scrolling down and
clicking the submit button.
Now that we have reviewed
sending email from within Blackboard lets look at the discussion area.
click the navigation arrow to continue.
