If you know how to surf the world wide web, have used email before, and can learn how to send an email attachment, then learning how to interact in an online course should not be difficult at all. Before the course begins you will receive a packet in the mail giving you specific instructions as well as the phone numbers and email addresses of our technical support personnel, in case you have some difficulty. Typically we ask students to create their assignment in a popular word processor, like Microsoft Word, and save their file on their computer hard drive, or on a floppy disk. Using the email interface of the course, the student can use the attachment feature to attach the completed file to the email and send it electronically to the professor. Yes, in most cases, Blackboard, a web course management tool has been adopted by the university.
Blackboard resides on our webserver.
You see it as a website that is protected by password access. All you need is access to the internet, an email account, and an up to date web browser.