Welcome to Stony Brook's Blackboard support site for Instructors

This website contains step by step instructions for posting and customizing your Blackboard site.

Use the menu on the left hand side of the screen to navigate through this site

News and Announcements

Instructors: When you log into Blackboard, does it say (Unavailable) next to your course?

If so, students currently do not have access to your Blackboard course.

 

Here's how you can activate your course:

1. Log into Blackboard with your Net ID Username & Password.
2. Under My Courses, you will see your courses. If your courses are unavailable it will say so next to the course.
3. Click on the course that you would like to make available and go to the Control Panel ...

Choose: Settings in the Course Options Area. Then choose: Course Availability and choose Yes to make your course available.

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Fall 2007 changes - Email & Digital Dropbox

If you are planning on using Blackboard for the Fall 2007 semester, please be aware of the following changes:

1. The digital dropbox is not availble for student's until the Instructor turns on that feature

2. E-mail is disabled, instructors can turn this feature on if they wish.

E-mail has been disabled and needs to be enabled by the instructor

By default, e-mail is no longer available in Blackboard courses.

Instructors who wish to use this feature will need to enable it.

Go into your Control Panel and choose: Manage Tools under Course Options , Click on Tool Availability and check box for the E-mail . You will only have to do this once!

Once you make e-mail available, you will see Send E-Mail in your Control Panel

If you would like to enable your student's ability to send e-mail to you or to each other (In classes larger than 100, we ask that you not enable their ability to e-mail everyone due to spamming concerns) , here's how:

1. From the Control Panel choose: Manage Course Menu
2. Scroll down to the Communication Area
3. Click Modify
4. Scroll down to the Send Email section & Check Available , then check the options that you want your students to have.

Digital Dropbox:

Blackboard is no longer supporting the Digital Dropbox, while we encourage all faculty to use Blackboard's assignment manager , we do know that sometimes faculty prefer to have their students use the Digital Dropbox.

If you would like your students to have access to the Digital Dropbox, you can turn it on, here's how:

Go into your Control Panel and choose: Manage Tools under Course Options , Click on Tool Availability and check box for the Digital Dropbox