Blackboard Student Orientation

The goal of this orientation is to increase students' readiness and self-confidence in taking distance and online courses. By completing this orientation, you should expect:

• to become familiar with course delivery tools, methods, and requirements
• to gain a basic familiarity with appropriate learning and studying strategies for distance learning
• to get acquainted with course communication and interaction tools and protocols
• to understand your responsibilities as a distance student;
  to be fairly comfortable with course delivery software and hardware and boost your technical proficiency
• to be able to resolve technical problems or find appropriate assistance, if needed.

To access the Blackboard Student Orientation:

1. Log in to ECSU's Bb page at http://ecsu.blackboard.com.
2. Follow the login instructions on the screen.
3. Look for the My Courses box on the right side of the screen.
4. Click the link for Blackboard Student Orientation.