Using Blackboard E-Mail
Here are some pointers for effectively using Blackboard's e-mail tool:- Ask students to verify their e-mail addresses in Blackboard's Personal Information section. Blackboard automatically imports student e-mail addresses from the Student Information System when a student enrolls in a course, but these e-mail addresses may not be the ones regularly used by every student.
- Give specific instructions on how to reply to each e-mail. Recipients of Blackboard e-mails are blind copied, so they do not know to whom else an e-mail is addressed and may mistakenly "reply all". Conversely you may not know who else had been copied on an e-mail from a student and may duplicate the response of a teaching assistant or other instructor.
- Include a course identifier (name and/or number) in the subject of the e-mail and encourage students to do the same. Blackboard does not automatically indicate that its e-mails are course-related.
- Choose the "Send Copy of Message to self" option when selecting recipients for e-mails. This will give you your only record of your course correspondence, as Blackboard does not keep a log of sent e-mails.
Last modified August 20, 2007 8:39:33 AM EDT