Administrators may give a user administrator privileges for one or more modules. If a user has administrator privileges for a module a Module Admin button will appear at the top of the My Institution page. When selected, the Delegated Module Admin page will appear, enabling the user to open and modify those modules they have administrator privileges for.
Select Content to modify the content within a module, such as the links or HTML it includes. Select Properties to modify the title, description and availability of the module.
This section addresses how to login to Web email accounts. Note that Web Email is an optional service available separately from Blackboard Learning System. If your institution does not use Web Email, this section of the manual may be ignored. If your institution does use Web Email a link will be available in the Tools Box. This section describes how to use the Web Email program provided with Blackboard Learning System. Institutions may also provide a link to another Web Email program through Blackboard Learning System.
To access your institution’s Web email account from the Web Email page, log onto Web Email using the same username and password as if logging on to the institution’s Web email account.
POP and IMAP servers were designed to allow users to retrieve remote email accounts. Web Email allows the retrieval of email that is located on POP or IMAP servers such as Yahoo. However the user must know what type of server the email account is. The two definitions below describe how to tell if a remote email account is POP or IMAP.
POP: POP allows read-only functionality. Users may read messages and delete messages, but may not write or store messages.
IMAP: IMAP allows read and write functionality. Users may read messages, delete messages, create draft copies of emails, manage mail folders, save messages to folders, and mark messages for deletion at a later time.
To access other Web email accounts from the Web Email page, include the POP server name or the IMAP server name in the username and enter the password.
Example: For example if the username is janedoe and the POP server name is popservername.com and the password is password, then the login would appear as shown below.
USERNAME: janedoe@popservername.com
PASSWORD: ********
To access a Yahoo email account, include @pop.mail.yahoo.com in the username and enter the Yahoo password.
Example: For example if the username is janedoe and the password is password, then the login would appear as shown below.
USERNAME: janedoe@pop.mail.yahoo.com
PASSWORD: ********
Instead of remembering and entering the POP server name or IMAP server name, use the Remote Mailboxes page so that when the user accesses the Mail Login page only the username and password must be entered. For more information about the Remote Mailboxes page see Remote Mailboxes, discussed later in this chapter.
Hotmail may be used with Web Email, but requires special configuration. For more information about how to use Hotmail please contact Blackboard Technical Support.
Note: Hotmail can only be used if all users in the institution are going to use Hotmail.