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Name/Email Address Change

I contacted my school's IT Dept. to ask them to change my name and email address now that I'm married, but they refuse to do so until the end of the semester. Why? Because they have to keep the email address of my Blackboard account consistent with the email at my school (understandable) and...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Mary Stull on 13 Nov 2012

Change E-mail Address that is linked to Blackboard 9.1 Mail

Hi all, Our institution just upgraded to Blackboard 9.1. Previously, the old system (not sure what version it was) would forward mails sent to me via Blackboard to a personal e-mail that I set up. With Blackboard 9.1 Mail, my school e-mail is used by default to send/receive e-mails--how can I change...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Roxanne Abella on 11 Aug 2012

Blackboard and Firefox

For a (very) brief period, I was able to use Firefox when working on my online classes. Unfortunately, it stopped once Firefox v. 11 came out. Now every time I try using Firefox, I get a check browser error message saying I'm using Firefox 1.X and it's unsupported. When I use Firefox, I am unable...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Jessica S on 26 Apr 2012

deleting private messages?

Is it technologically possible for instructors to delete messages sent from one student to another through the Blackboard mail? I.e. to go into students' individual mailboxes and delete messages there that the students had received from another student?

Posted to Students (Forum) by Bob Sawyer on 8 Mar 2012

Sending Emails from Blackboard 9.1

With the old Blackboard system I was able to send emails to course colleagues and tutors, however I can't locate the service on the new system. Is it still available?

Posted to Students (Forum) by Laoch Rione on 9 Sep 2011

How To Embedding Surveys Into Email?

Hello. I'd like to distribute a survey via email to participants of a Blackboard group. Can I do this through Blackboard? If I can't, is there a way I can embed a survey I've created with Google Forms into an email sent to a Blackboard group? Thanks!

Posted to Students (Forum) by Pradeep Selvan on 5 Jan 2011

Automatic forwarding of emails to my regular email

I would like to have all emails that I receive on blackboard to be automatically forwarded to my regular email address since I check that regularly. I noticed someone else was able to do this, but could not figure out how. Thanks

Posted to Students (Forum) by Melissa Richeson on 26 Oct 2010

Attaching file to Blackboard Email- Please help

I'm going crazy. How do I attach a file to my blackboard email? My instructor wants an assignment emailed to her through Blackboard as a word doc. When I click on attach file it only pulls up my file cabinet which has no files and only allows me to create them not add them. Any help would be appreciated...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Shannon Brown on 31 Aug 2010

email notifications for submitted assignments

Can students get an email notification for a submitted assignment in Blackboard 9? Thanks

Posted to Students (Forum) by Roger Gardner on 15 Jul 2010

Lost formatting

Every time I copy and paste from Word or Notepad into my email message box, all formatting is lost and everything runs together. This is making my papers one big jumble of words. Which radio button is supposed to be used at the bottom of the box? Smart, plain, or HTML? Copying from Word into notepad...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Rebecca Tracey on 11 Jul 2010