Announcements about ddl.dyc.edu Questions and Answers about Blackboard 1. Blackboard is a program used to construct course sites on the web. All material is placed inside courses. Blackboard allows announcements to be posted, holds documents, allows users to post comments on a bulletin board and conduct real-time chats. Students can send a document directly to the professor and have it returned to them.
Students have access to a calendar and can even build their own web site inside the course.
Blackboard contains an on-line testing facility which presents tests and provides the test taker with an immediate score. Once inside the Blackboard site, a visitor can look at some materials from some courses if allowed by the instructor. Students are given orientation courses at the beginning of the semester and faculty and staff can sign up for various in-service courses on Blackboard and other topics related to web courses. Hardcopies of Blackboard directions are available through the Department of Distance Learning and each Blackboard course site contains built in documents for both faculty and students. Students must possess a computer, be connected to the Internet, and have e-mail.