Blackboard at Union College

Online Blackboard Request Form
Fill in a registration request form so that you can use Blackboard for teaching your courses.

Blackboard Essentials
A sheet with the essential topics such as Logging in, Username Creation, Changing Password, Logging out, and Supported File Types. Recommended for handing out to students. PDF Version (for printing, 576 kB)

Developing a Blackboard Course
The very basics of setting up a Blackboard course. Available in web, text-only web, and pdf (1.4 MB) formats.

Instructor Manual for Blackboard 7.2 (pdf, 1.44 MB)
Publication Date: October 2006.

Archiving a Blackboard Course
Courses that are two or more years old are annually deleted at the end of each Fall term. An instructor may archive a course to his or her office computer for later use.

Removing a Blackboard Course Request
Remove any Blackboard courses you have taught or for which you have registered by following the instructions described here.

Forgot your password?
How to easily recover your forgotten password.

Formatting Text in Blackboard [Mac] (pdf, 155 kB)
If you want to spice up your blackboard announcements with different text colors, bold, and italic decoration or lists you can do so by typing HTML in your announcements.

Guidelines For On-Line Students Using Blackboard
On this page you can find our recommendations for on-line students who are using blackboard.

Training Resources
Selection of the most useful Blackboard training resources.

Quiz Generator
A simpler, faster way to create Blackboard quizzes and tests (developed by Wytheville Community College.)