Blackboard

About Blackboard

What Blackboard Is
Blackboard is the learning management system used by Texas Woman's University to deliver online courses and online course components for face-to-face classes. Blackboard is Internet based, meaning if you have access to the Internet, you have access to your class. With Blackboard students can see course content such as notes, links to articles, assignments, quizzes and tests. It also has communication tools such as email, live chat, and a discussion board. Some online classes even incorporate blogs and wikis. Below are video tutorials of some of these tools.

What Blackboard Is Not
Blackboard is not the official communication system of TWU. The Pioneer Portal is. You must use the Portal to register for your courses, see your official schedule and see your final grades. Pioneer Portal, rather than Blackboard is also the tool you will use to send and receive university emails. If you would like to forward your Portal email to a personal account you can do that from the Pioneer Portal home screen. Log-in to Pioneer Portal and under Important Links, "Forwarding" will be listed under the Email heading.

An Important Note About Your Privacy in Blackboard

Please note that your access to specific pages in Blackboard is recorded on an individual basis, and course instructors can view these individual access statistics.

Blackboard Sample Course

Would you like to see what a Blackboard course looks like? Visit the Blackboard Sample Course. Use the word "online" as both the username and password. This will give you a sample of what an online course could look like. Please keep in mind that every course looks a little different based on the preferences and set-up of the professor.

Blackboard Video Demos

Below are some video demonstrations of important aspects of Blackboard. This is information you will need to know in order to successfully navigate and communicate within Blackboard. Interaction is so important in the online classroom, so become familiar with these tools and concepts so that you can interact to the fullest! Each video can be paused.

Logging-In (3:04)

Discussion Board (8:57)

Assignment Feature (2:51)

Email in Blackboard (1:49)

Blogs in Blackboard (3:12)

Wikis in Blackboard (5:17)

Test Your Knowledge
Blackboard Quiz

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