Know what your NetID is. Log into Blackboard. Log into Google Apps for Education. Know where to use a computer on campus. Know what technology services are available to students. Connect to the campus Wi-Fi network. Find free technology workshops. Know who to contact for help and more information. Workshop Schedule. View Events Calendar. Blackboard Blackboard is Stony Brook University's learning management system LMS , which allows instructors to supplement face-to-face classes, or launch online classes.
NetID Every active employee, student, and faculty member is assigned a NetID, which is used to access various computing resources. Additional Information. Related Content. If you are not sure, you can check this by logging into solar. Did you accidentally lock yourself out of your blackboard account? If you have 10 failed attempts into blackboard, the system will automatically lock your account for about minutes.
To avoid this issue in the future, if you are unsure of your password, you can log into solar. You must answer a security question that you have previously set up. Then you will have the option to change your netID password. If you are not able to answer your security question, you need to submit a ticket on the IT Service Portal. You have forgotten your netID password completely? You can log into solar. Please refer to this link for visual instructions. In order to register your clicker and use it in your class es , you will need to create a Turning Technologies account first and add your Device ID to your account.
The easiest way to do this is through your course on Blackboard. Go to the "Tools" section of the course, scroll down to the bottom and click the "Turning Account Registration clickers " link. If you have any questions or run into trouble while registering your clicker, you can contact Turning Technologies' Support Team by email at support turningtechnologies. Once the System Preferences window opens, select the General preference pane in the upper left corner.
The middle section of the General preference pane controls when scroll bars appear and a few additional scroll bar options. To return the scroll bars to their pre-Lion functionality, select "Always" from the Show Scroll Bars options. When submitting work online it is important to check with your instructor about the assignment and how it will be submitted. If you have submitted a file incorrectly or uploaded the wrong file you must contact your instructor immediately.
Your instructor can clear the incorrect attempt and allow you another submission. If your instructor wants your assignment to be submitted through Blackboard there are two main ways: through the Assignment feature and as a SafeAssignment. Submitting through these methods are similar but slightly different, documentation about the different types of assignments and viewing their grades can be seen below.
This chart shows some of the differences between the two types of assignments:. Blackboard sites allow you to have a Blackboard community for your department. These can be departmental sites for Students, or your Staff and Faculty members.
We create a Blackboard Organization which can allow you some of the following options:. Announcements are one of the first things students see when they log onto Blackboard and enter your course. They are the best way to post information about upcoming tests, assignments, or other events.
Enter your course by clicking its name in the My Courses module. Any announcements will appear in the My Announcements module on the course Home Page. Click either the title of the announcement to read its full text or more announcements The full text of your announcements will appear. Make sure Edit Mode is ON in the upper right corner of the screen. Under Announcement Information , enter a Subject required and Message optional.
Scroll down to Web Announcement Options. Proceed to the next section. Want to e-mail your announcement to the class? Check the box for Email Announcement.
If you want your announcement to be available after a date in the future, you cannot also send an email. Does your announcement pertain to a document, assignment or test in another area of the course?
If so, scroll down to Course Link. Click Browse to open a popup listing all areas of your course. Select the appropriate area of the course. Click Submit at the bottom of the page. The announcement will appear at the top of the page. Previous announcements are displayed in reverse chronological order. Setup and use of Assignments is similar to SafeAssignments , but there are a few notable differences:. Assignments can be used for projects because it allows submissions of any file type.
Assignments also allow options for multiple submissions of a project and for group submission and grading of a project. Grading Assignments with Inline Grading. Use the Discussion Board to have students:. What this does, is create a link to the recordings; so at a minimum, all you need to do is give it a name Video Lectures, Videos, Captures If you want to add more options, like to enable tracking, you can certainly also choose those features on this page before hitting submit.
If you are coteaching with another instructor, have a TA, or a student auditor, they may not be automatically be added to Blackboard, if they are not registered or listed in SOLAR. In this case you will have to add them manually. Blackboard provides a batch copy tool to move multiple entire areas of your course at once.
This is ideal if you plan to reuse the majority of your content from a previous course. Enter your old course by clicking its name in the My Courses module.
Select your new course from the list, then click Submit. Check the boxes next to all areas you wish to copy. Click Submit. Wait a few minutes 15 is usually sufficient , then check your new course. DoIT can merge your sections together for you. This can help to save time and duplicate work across two parts of a class. Merging classes together merges the enrollments of the class into a single course section that all students and faculty have access to.
For example this is can be done for crosslisted sections, where one course has two Blackboard courses created for two different departments. When a course is created on Blackboard, the course is made available to students by default. This gives the instructor the ability to upload documents, create assignments, set up their discussion boards and more. If you are not interested in using Blackboard at the start of every semester, instructors need to make their courses unavailable to students.
After logging into Blackboard, check the My Courses box. If any of your courses say unavailable next to the course title, students will not see them when they log in. To make a course unavailable, follow these directions:. Click on the name of your course in the My Courses module. In the Control Panel on the lower left-hand side, select Customization , then Properties. Scroll down to Set Availability. Switch Make Course Available to No.
Blackboard is the preferred system for sending email to students since it does not display the email addresses.
In the event that Blackboard is not available AND you need to contact your students, you can download an Excel spreadsheet of your students that will contain a column of their Stony Brook email addresses.
Step 4: Your course roster will appear see below Select the download class roster button. Step 5: An excel file will download to your computer and should be available in your Download folder. We recommend you rename your course, including term, i. Step 8: If you are using a shared computer, save to your Google Drive and remove the file from your Downloads folder.
Make sure you empty the trash so that others cannot access the file. Select the arrow button to the right of the column title, then Edit Column Information. In your Grade Center, a red icon will appear to the left of the column title. That icon means students cannot see these grades. Select the arrow button to the right of the column title, then Hide Column. Any hidden columns will be grayed out and say Hidden. Instructors may control which columns are frozen.
A dark gray bar will appear, stating, "Everything above this bar is a frozen column. Drag this bar to change which columns are frozen. To add frozen columns, select the four-pointed arrow icon to the left of the bar and drag down OR select the icon to the left of any row and drag above the bar. Anything above the bar will remain frozen. When a new column is added to the Grade Center, it is automatically sent to the end. Instructors can modify the order in which columns appear.
Categories are used to classify Grade Center columns. Filter the Grade Center based on category to see how students perform on specific assignments. Use categories to more easily weigh final grades. When creating columns, it is recommended to apply a category. If an appropriate category is not already listed, instructors may create their own.
In the Action Bar, select Manage, then Categories. All default categories will be listed. As you add Tests, SafeAssignments, and other graded items to your course, more categories may be added automatically.
Enter a Name required and Description optional , then click Submit at the bottom of the page. At the top or bottom of the page, select Change Category to Check out our new tool called Bb Annotate! You can use Bb Annotate for inline grading. Bb Annotate offers a more robust feature set to provide customizable feedback to students.
Features include a sidebar summary view, freehand drawing tools, various color selections, and much more. Academic Technologies maintains a 10 Ten Blackboard Tips checklist for the start of each semester. Click here to access our checklist. The Division of Information Technology provides support on all of our services. If you require assistance please submit a support ticket through the IT Service Management system.
Toggle navigation. Blackboard Blackboard is Stony Brook University's learning management system LMS , which allows instructors to supplement face-to-face classes, or launch online classes.
Blackboard Basics All courses are put into Blackboard, but instructors need to activate the course before students will be able to access it. Logging In To log into Blackboard, go to blackboard. Once you have entered your credentials, click Login. Launch Blackboard. Launch Blackboard For Students: The Blackboard App gives students mobile access to their Blackboard courses and allows them to keep on track with their courses on the go. Blackboard App for Students For Faculty: Blackboard Instructor gives faculty the ability to manage their courses, reply to discussions, post announcements and more from their phone or tablet.
Student FAQs. What are the technical requirements and compatible browsers for Blackboard? Technical Requirements Find out what the tech requirements are for your courses to run smoothly. Java is required to run Blackboard. Java can also be installed or upgraded from this site. Java can be downloaded and installed from Apple's support site. Which browsers are compatible with Blackboard?
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