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My online courses utilize the Blackboard Course Management System
(Bb) in additional to information posted on
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- Student Blackboard Accounts
All registered students will have individual accounts
with access to their course Bb site, and this site will be an
integral part of the course. Students must also complete
all registration procedures and pay all
necessary fees before they can access their
Blackboard account.
- All written
and PowerPoint assignments for the course must
be submitted through the Blackboard system.
- Access to
Blackboard course sites at Palomar College is
available the Friday before the start of each
term.
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- Student
Manual All students should
click here to access the online version
of the Student Manual for using Blackboard; the
latest version that we use at Palomar College is
version 8. Students who are unfamiliar
with the Blackboard system should review closely
the following topics in the Manual:
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Part One: Introduction to the Blackboard
Learning System
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Chapters 1 and 2
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See below the section regarding
Username and Password - these
are created by the Palomar College
System Administrator and the feature
"Creating an Account" mentioned in
this chapter is unavailable.
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Part Two: Courses
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Chapter 3 - Course Content
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This includes a sample view of a
typical Bb course site, including
the Course Menu.
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Course Content Areas:
Assignments -
very important
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This is the area where you will
submit your written assignments
and PowerPoint files.
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Chapter 4 - Communication
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Course Send Email
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Discussion Board -
extremely
important
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Groups
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Chapter 5 - Tools
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Personal Information
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Edit Personal Information; this
is where you must enter your
correct Email address - see
these tutorials for more
help.
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View Grades
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Our Bb site will have direct
links to the Grade Book as part
of the Course Menu.
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Username and Password Student
Bb accounts are accessed using the 9-digit Palomar College
student ID number as Username and the Password for your Palomar
eServices account.
- If you have forgotten your
username and/or password,
click here to request that
they be reset.
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- Internet
Access and Student Email Accounts All
students registered in my online courses require
reliable Internet access – preferably with
broadband speed
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and must have an
Email address for communication with their
professor. However:
- It is not
necessary to have home internet access to
take an online course, if the student is
willing to use facilities such as the
Palomar College
Academic Technology Computer Lab
or other computer labs at Palomar College
or another institution to
access their course Blackboard site.
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If you
do not have home computer access, it is
strongly recommended that you find a
reliable site with Broadband Internet access
that is open when you will want to access
your course Blackboard site.
- Free Email
accounts can be obtained from
Yahoo! Mail or
Google Mail and other providers of
free Internet services
listed here at the Palomar College
Academic Technology Computer Lab site.
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- Attention
AOL Users!
America Online
users may not be able access Blackboard properly
using the browser supplied with AOL. To access
Blackboard, AOL users must download a standard
(or stand-alone) version of Microsoft Internet
Explorer. (AOL sometimes refers to browsers
other than their own as "external browsers.")
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these procedures to access Blackboard:
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Download version 7.0 of Internet
Explorer.
Click here to begin the download.
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Install the downloaded browser software
on your computer. (Installation
instructions are provided Microsoft's
download sites.)
- After
you've installed your new browser
successfully, restart your computer.
- Sign
on to AOL as you normally do, but stay
at the AOL Main (Welcome) page.
- Keep
AOL running in the background and start
your new stand-alone browser. The
stand-alone browser will use your AOL
Internet connection.
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Note: If you have problems getting
your new browser to work with AOL, check
out the Member Services area of AOL.
Click on "Internet and World Wide Web."
Double-click "Using other browsers with
AOL." For further information.
- MSN Users
While Blackboard will function within MSN
Explorer, it is also recommended that you use a
stand-alone version of Internet Explorer 6.0
after you sign on to MSN.
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- Pop-up
Blockers Please disable any
pop-up blocker that you have installed as a
plug-in to your browser while using Blackboard.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Click here
and
here for answers to "Frequently Asked Questions"
regarding online courses.
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Registration Palomar College students who
wish to enroll in an online class for the first time should
click here for information on registration.
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Login Page for Blackboard
Click
here for the Login page
for Blackboard course sites at Palomar College.
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- Blackboard
Tutorials For
Tutorials on how to access
Blackboard, and on how to use several Blackboard features,
click here.
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