The Blackboard Course Management System

Blackboard is a system which allows you to put your course materials on a web page and allows access to these materials only to the students registered in your course.

Blackboard will allow you to email all of your students at once, establish discussion threads where you and your students can continuously post email on a particular subject, or even have real-time discussion with students.

Blackboard allows you to put practice exams on line, to monitor the scores students receive on these exams, limit the number of times an exam may be taken, and to put the students' grades on line, as well. You can also establish groups within your course and allow each to have its own private space to share email and files.

It's a good idea to archive your courses at the end of each semester for your files. You can use the freely available bFree to view these archived courses on your own computer.

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