What is Blackboard?
Blackboard is an online courseware software application. Blackboard is used to teach courses over the Web either as supplemental to a regular class or for classes taught totally online. Blackboard requires only that you have access to the Internet either on campus or through your own Internet Service provider (comcast, pacifier, etc.) at home and a Web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.). The URL for the Blackboard used on the WSU Tri-Cities Campus is http://blackboard.wsu.
Blackboard is Wilmington University’s online learning platform where instructors and students can access course materials and communicate online. Blackboard is an on-line course management system being used by Wilmington University faculty to deliver information and valuable educational resources to its students. Blackboard is a password protected web environment that allows instructors to be data specific to their courses and the needs of their students. Best of all, students can access Blackboard Course Sites anytime, anywhere and using any Web browser. To learn more about Blackboard, please click here.
Blackboard is a learning management system used by many universities to support their online courses. It allows the instructor and student to communicate with one another through different learning environments. Blackboard features include some of the following: discussion forums, online testing, posting of assignments and lectures, student presentations, Internet relay chat, online grade book, and in-class mail, to name a few. Each course will vary as to the features that are used from class to class and instructor to instructor.
