Welcome to the Blackboard Quick Start Orientation
for Students!
Review the following pages to start using
Blackboard quickly and easily. This Quick Start
Orientation includes instructions for the eight most
common tasks for students in Blackboard Learn 9.1:
Setting Up your Computer to use
Blackboard Without Errors
Logging into Blackboard
Submitting Assignments
Using the Discussion Board
Taking a Test
Accessing your Assignment Grades
Emailing your Instructor or
Other Students
Getting Additional Help
Although not required, your
instructor may require you to take a
brief quiz in your Blackboard course
to ensure that you completed this
orientation.
If you prefer a more interactive orientation,
Towson students have permission to use a hands-on orientation created by Columbus
State Community College:
Once you enter the Orientation
course site and expand the menu on
the left, you can try various tools:
Under Assignments & Exams,
you can practice submitting a Quiz
and an Assignment and posting in the Discussion Board
Under My Grades, you can practice:
Checking your grades
For FACULTY
If you would like to deploy the Towson Blackboard Student Orientation Quick Start
Quiz in your course, please contact
the Blackboard Administrators by visiting the Tech
Help website and submitting a service request at
http://techhelp.towson.edu