Blackboard (Bb) Support for Students
Most Faculties and Departments now use Blackboard to support their students' learning.
A number of "how to" guides are available from this page. Please check these, and the information on your Blackboard home page before you contact any of the support avenues available to you. When you become a student at Christ Church you should automatically be given an account for the Blackboard system and will be able to log in.
These guides are now up to date and support Blackboard 7.3
| Topic Guides | File size | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Blackboard Overview | ||
| Access | ||
| What is Blackboard? |
 Link |
Introduction to the Blackboard VLE |
| Accessing Blackboard |
 249Kb |
Where to find Bb, Logging in, Changing your password, Where to go for help |
| How Bb works | ||
|
625Kb |
Familiarisation with Blackboard. | |
| Full getting started guide |
895Kb |
The complete guide to beginning to use Blackboard |
| How to use Blackboard tools | ||
|
171Kb |
Sending email to other students and staff via Bb, How to access emails sent via Bb. | |
| Discussion boards |
430Kb |
The basics of using the Blackboard discussion board to communicate |
| Setting up and using the Bb e-portfolio |
615Kb |
A guide to setting up and using the Blackboard e-portfolio tool. |
| Using the Content Manager in e-portfolio |
262Kb |
What is the Bb content manager, how to use this tool |
| e-Portfolio Templates within Blackboard |
 140Kb |
This is a swatch card of the different e-portfolio item templates you can choose from. |
| Personalising the background of your e-portfolio |
549Kb |
This guide enables you to customise and personalise the background of your e-portfolio. |
| Setting up and using blogs |
480Kb |
A user guide to the blog tool in Blackboard |
| Setting up a blog video |
 656Kb |
A video showing how to create a blog a |
| Adding your first entry to a blog |
832Kb |
A vide showing how to add an entry to a blog |
| Setting up and using wikis |
423Kb |
A user guide to the wiki tool in Blackboard |
| Editing a wiki in a course area |
284Kb |
Using a wiki which has been set up in a Blackboard course area. |
| Using the text editing tool within blogs & wikis |
345Kb |
A user guide to the text editing tool within blogs & wikis |
| Submitting assignments through Blackboard |
204Kb |
If you are asked to send assessments electronically, this guide will explain how. |
| Other technical issues | ||
| Printing and saving from Bb |
246Kb |
How to print documents found in Bb, How to save copies of documents found on Bb |
| Help for Vista users |
302Kb |
Vista users may have problems with discussion boards and some other functions in Blackboard. This guide explains the alteration of settings to help with this. |
| Users of Office 2007 |
263Kb |
If you need to use the Assignment Manager, Digital Drop Box or File share and you use Office 2007, please read this guide. |
| Printing PowerPoint files | N/A | How to print PowerPoint presentations from Blackboard |
| Getting further help | ||
| Bb support guide |
Link |
Who does what to support Bb users and how to contact them |
| FAQs |
Link |
Check here before calling us. |
