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Instructions for entering Blackboard, Finding Your Course, Entering the Course and Navigating Within the Course


Blackboard is a web based course management tool which allows for the electronic delivery of information and instructional materials. Here is what you do to access the materials. Before you start the process of following these instructions I suggest printing them out for ease of following.
  1. Go to the FSUCOM home page at http://www.med.fsu.edu/
  2. Click on the word Blackboard over on the left side of the home page.
  3. You now see a screen with boxes in which you type your username and password. This is what we refer to as your mailer account username and password. Your user name usually contains the first letter of your first name followed by letters in your last name (e.g. dbaker) and your password is 6-8 characters with at least one non-alphanumeric character as part of it.
  4. Then click on the "Login" button.
  5. If successful, you will now see a new screen and over on the right you will see a box entitled My Courses and in that box you will see the official name of the clerkships/courses to which you have access. You will see these course names in blue letters (e.g. FAMILY MED CLERKSHIP (BCC6175-01.su03). Click on the course name to enter that course.
  6. Now you should see the “Welcome Page” for the course and over on the left you will see what we call the areas or area buttons. To see the contents of one of the areas, just click on the name (e.g. Objectives). You have to click on the letters of the name. Your cursor should change to a little hand with a pointing finger.
  7. Lets say you clicked on the area button named "Objectives." Now you will see "Objectives" titled in bold and just below it you will see the phrase, “click to view in Word” in blue letters. Click on the blue letters and you will then be viewing a Word file that was uploaded from a hard drive to the Blackboard web site. Not everyone has set their course up the same way but the key is to click on phrases or titles with blue letters to view a file/document.
  8. Now try clicking on other area buttons to see the contents of those areas.
  9. Like any web program, one way to navigate around is to use the back button of your browser.
 
   
   
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