Communication Tools in Blackboard

Blackboard has several tools that allow you to communicate with your students and encourage communucation and collaboration between your students. Announcements allow you to post important information in the class as well as push to their email, Send Email allows you to send messages to selected students or the whole class, and Discussion Forums allow you to have virtual class discussions.

Back Creating Announcements in Your Course (2:38)

The Announcements tool is a way for the instructor to convey important information to the class. Your students can access your announcements in the modules on the Blackboard Home page or from within your course on the Announcements page. Recent announcements appear as links under the course title.

Instructors can also email announcements to the class. These emails will go to your students' @maine.edu Gmail account.