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What is Blackboard?
Technical Requirements
How do I login to Blackboard?
My Course site
My Blackboard Overview
Blackboard Mobile
Blackboard FAQs
General Contacts
What is Blackboard?
Blackboard is our Virtual Learning Environment at Cranfield Campus.
Course announcements
Manuals
Timetables
Lecture notes and hand-outs
Discussion boards
Online resources, Blogs, Wikis
Lecture recordings
Access to EVE
Your course administrator or lecturer can give you further information about how Blackboard is used in
your courses.
When you register for a course at Cranfield University you will automatically be enrolled onto the
Blackboard(s) for that particular course. If you cannot see one of your courses listed see later in the
section on How do I login to Blackboard.
Technical requirements
What is Blackboard?
You can use any computer which has access to the internet at our IT teaching rooms, PC Labs,
personal devices and from home or at work. Blackboard is available 24/7.
https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_SP_14/Student/015_Browser_Support
Contact the IT Support desk if you have problems accessing Blackboard (01234
75 4199)
1) Check that you have entered your username and password correctly, notepassword is case
sensitive. If you enter it incorrectly three times you will be locked out. Leave it for hour then try
again.
2) Check Caps Lock is off
3) Do not access via the Extranetuse the URL https://bb.cranfield.ac.uk ONLY
4) Forget your password? Click on the Forget your password link to reset it.
5) Do you have a company firewall if you are external user? Contact your company IT department in the
first instance for advice.
6) If you still cannot log in contact servicedesk@cranfield.ac.uk (01234 75) 4199
After log in you will see the My Learning home page with all your courses and modules listed in the
My Courses block. To relocate this block, left click on the blue header panel to drag to new position.
Each course or module in the list (example circled in red) is a link to a separate Blackboard course site
containing course specific information and documents as well as links to external sites, assessments and
supporting materials.
My course site
After you have selected the course or module by clicking on the
course link, your course site will open.
You will see several links in the left side bar called the Navigation panel. They provide access to learning
material content which opens in the main window in the right. For example, click on Lecture Material
to view the course content material.
Note - these navigation link names may vary slightly from course to course
Within the content area there may be files to open by clicking in the
name link (underlined in blue). Clicking on the file will display it
(usually within your web browser).
There may be also access to external web pages or video material.
If any of these do not open or run correctly please contact your
administrator.
My Blackboard overview
Click on your name at the top right of the Blackboard screen to access
My Blackboard overview.
The drop down menu lists your recently accessed courses. Use the icons down
the left side to select different overviews (listed below). This overview screen is
called the Global navigation menu and shows a current overview of all your
discussion posts, calendar items, grades, and notifications across all your
courses / modules in one place. You can also interact; such as reply to
discussions, comment on blogs, or change calendar items.
Overview of the activity in all your courses and modules (Calendar and Posts only)
Stay up-to-date and engaged with all the conversations going on across your courses. The tool
consolidates posts from all of your courses and modules so posts from Discussion Boards, Journals,
Wikis, and Blogs as well as the comments and replies to those posts
Updated content updates you on course announcements, when new content or assignments are
added to a course, when an assignment or assessment is due (currently only non-Turnitin), and much
more.
My Grades consolidates all your grades from across all your courses into one view. Theres no need to
go in and out of all your courses to check your grades (NOTE this does not show Turnitin marks unless
your supervisor grades online)
Calendar events (such as assignment due dates, timetable events)
Blackboard Mobile
Blackboard Mobile Learn gives you access to your courses and content on a
variety of mobile devices, including iOS, Android, and Palm webOS
devices.
The Blackboard Mobile Learn app can be purchased at a small cost for unlimited
access. It is free to download from online app stores such as iTunes and Google Play
and you pay at point of use.
You can already view your course in Blackboard without the Blackboard Mobile Learn app simply by
using your mobile device's browser but the app has been designed to provide a better viewing
experience.
To access your course using the App on your mobile device
Enter Cranfield University into the search bar that automatically appears when you open the
application.
Type in your Cranfield network ID and password
To reduce the number of visible courses or modules you can edit and hide those not required
Blackboard FAQs
I have forgotten my password!
Your Blackboard password is your Cranfield network
password. Select the option shown in red and follow
instructions.
https://intranet.cranfield.ac.uk/it/Pages/BBstudents.aspx
General contacts
Your course administrator or course lecturers can help you with any queries about your course material.
For any other general queries about training, technical problems, connecting to wifi with your
equipment, online tools or facilities, contact the Help Desk in the IT department, Building 63:
or email service desk@cranfield.ac.uk, or phone (01234 75) 4199
IT intranet web site https://intranet.cranfield.ac.uk/it/Pages/Learning.aspx
We use Turnitin for the majority of assessment submissions. To see how to submit go
to https://intranet.cranfield.ac.uk/it/Pages/TurnitinStudents.aspx