What is BLACKBOARD and How Do College Students Use It?

The site that many colleges and universities use across the nation and gaining rising popularity among students and teachers is called BLACKBOARD. The backboard website can be found by going to www.blackboard.edu and you will find a listing of schools and universities that utilize this website. Blackboard allows teachers and professors to stay in touch with their students over the web. The blackboard website allows teachers to keep an updated list of their students in their class. The blackboard website contains the records of the students in a university or school and sends the professor that student's contact information such as their email address and cell phone number that they can be reached.

Through the blackboard website, teachers can write down the classroom assignments for their students and upcoming papers and exams that are due. Teachers and also able to post links to websites that they feel are helpful to students such as grammar or reference sites.

The Blackboard website also allows students to view class assignments in case they miss a class or forget to write down the assignment. In Blackboard, the website offers a site called turnitin.com in which teachers and professors have students submit a copy of their papers and assignments online so that they can check the paper to make sure that it was not plagiarized.

The website also allows teachers to ask students to submit an additional copy of their papers and assignments over the web so that the teacher can view the paper on his or her computer as well as a back up copy in case they lose the paper.

Another area of the BLACKBOARD website allows teachers to post the grades of a course for students to look at online. In addition, teachers can post their office hours and other tutoring sessions that they are available for students to meet with them.

The Blackboard website is very organized and has many different sections and tabs that allow students to move back and forth through different areas of the website rather quickly and easily.

The website has been expanding as the demand for use of this website has increased every year due to the increased demand of the product by universities around the country.