Teaching Tools

Communications with students via Blackboard

To send a message to all students enrolled on your course, you can use Blackboard to make announcements.

How to create Blackboard announcements

To send a message to selected students or groups enrolled on your course, you can use Blackboard to send emails.

How to send email to specific course groups via Blackboard

For less urgent asynchronous communication with your students, you can use a Blackboard discussion forum (see below for a brief tour). Click here for more details:

Support for Using the Discussion Boards

You may also find the following Blackboard discussion training videos useful.