FCS > Teaching Resources > Blackboard

Hofstra's Blackboard automatically gives all Hofstra instructors pre-built websites for every course, but they are not visible to their students until faculty make them active. Faculty can use these to organize and distribute course materials.

Blackboard is one of the main links in the Hofstra Portal. Look for the Bb icon!

If you want your students to have access to one of your Blackboard courses, you need to make it available to them. To make it available, just go into the course and click on Control Panel at the bottom left of the screen. Under Course Options, click Settings. Set the Course Availability setting to Yes when you are ready to have students access the site.

You have the option of using Blackboard in every course you teach. Students enrolled in a particular course automatically have accounts in the Blackboard site associated with that course. All you have to do is add your content.

Right now, more than 440 faculty at Hofstra are using Blackboard. More than 80% of Hofstra students have a course that uses Blackboard already. We can help you figure out if there's something Blackboard can do for you.

Blackboard offers you the ability to communicate with your students outside of class. You can organize students into discussion groups, send mass emails, and send and receive assignments.

FCS offers one-on-one training in Blackboard. We also host periodic Blackboard workshops, and can set up a workshop individualized for your department or discipline.

If you need to save your course, your gradebook, or close the course because you and your students are finished with it, we have a QuickSheet that gives you the easy steps.