Welcome to the Blackboard Mailbag, where we feature a commonly asked question that has been hitting our mailbox recently: blackboard@fordham.edu. You’ll find an archive of all of the previous questions and answers on our fordham.edu/blackboard website.
Note: Features may change with future updates.
If you’re teaching this summer, Fordham’s 202530 (Summer) courses are now available on Blackboard.
Note that if you don’t see a course you were expecting to teach, please reach out to your department chair first, to confirm that your department submitted your name as the course instructor.
Remember if you are teaching more than one iteration of a course in any given semester, you have the option to request that these iterations be merged – saving you time/effort by allowing you to update a single ‘parent’ course, rather than updating the ‘child’ courses individually.
Please note:
- We recommend you request your course merges as early as possible.
- Do not begin working on your courses before they are merged, as the merged course will be blank upon its creation (i.e., content in the individual sections is deleted in the course merge process).
- Lastly, if you request courses to be merged that already include publisher content, then the publishers will need to be contacted to “unlink” the courses so that you can set up the publisher content in the merged course (e.g. Cengage, Oxford, Barnes And Noble, Kritik, Pearson, McMillion, and Voicethread).
If you have been assigned as the instructor of the course and see it listed on your teaching schedule in the Fordham Portal but not on Blackboard please contact us with the full course ID and course name: blackboard@fordham.edu.
Consider trying out the great helper tool – Qwickly this summer.. Qwickly helps you do many simple tasks from one easy-to-use interface. Qwickly can help you send announcements, email, and more. See our previous Bb Mailbag blog post with tips on using the Qwickly tool.
Other helpful information when setting up your course:
- How to make your course available so students have access
- Managing users which is helpful to add other instructors or TAs to your course
- Add/Drop policy on Blackboard
- How to create content
- Course Copy [please note, when copying a previous course that has Panopto videos there is currently a delay of 24 hours for your videos to copy over to the new course]
- AI Design Assistant & AI Conversation Tools
For video tutorials, helpful guides, and instructions on additional topics please visit the Fordham Blackboard website: www.fordham.edu/blackboard.
If you have any questions or need support please contact 718-817-3999 or email us at blackboard@fordham.edu. You can also sign up to meet with us via Zoom on our EdTech Consultation Calendar.
For additional FAQs and resources about Blackboard, visit fordham.edu/blackboard, attend one of our workshops, sign up to meet with us on our EdTech Consultation Calendar via Zoom, or reach out to us with your availability and we will work with you to accommodate small groups and one-on-one sessions.
Have feedback or suggestions on features? Blackboard’s parent company Anthology hosts The Idea Exchange. This is a place specifically for Blackboard to track and manage enhancement requests. It allows for things like upvoting ideas and sharing development plans and statuses. You will need to create an account to access the Idea Exchange.