Logging into Blackboard or Turnitin.com
1. How do I get to Blackboard?
2. How do I login to Blackboard?
3. Whenever I enter my username I get an error message. What
do I do?
4. Turnitin.com is asking me for a username and password,
where do I find it?
Checking Email
5. I need to email my instructor, but I can't find their email
address. What do I do?
6. Instructors tell me they are sending me emails, but I'm
not receiving them. Why am I not receiving their emails?
Tests, Digital Drop Box, Spell Checking, and Grades
7. I got locked out of my exam, what do I do?
8. I took the test, why did I get a zero?
9. I'm using the Digital Drop Box, but the instructor says
they are not getting my assignments.
10. How can I do a spell check on essays submitted in Blackboard?
11. How do I find my grades?
Manuals and Plugins
12. Where can I find a manual for Blackboard and/or Turnitin.com?
13. What plugins do I need for Blackboard?
Misc. Information
14. Some pages aren't loading properly or aren't
displaying at all. What is wrong?
Your username is the first four characters of your last name and the last four digits of your student ID number. Then your password is your whole student ID number.
Students with accounts from Spring 2005 and Summer 2005 have not changed. They are still using Social Security Number and not the Student ID number.
Logon Example:
Name: Henry Jones
Student ID number: 123456789
Username: jone6789
Password: 123456789
If you need your student ID number contact the Registrar’s office
at 580-371-2371 ext. 108.
If you are having problems getting logged into Blackboard either call Bill
Adams at 580-371-2371 ext. 138 or email him at badams@mscok.edu
In the Digital Drop Box you have to do two things. First, you have to Add
a file to the drop box. Second, you will have to Send the file to the instructor's
drop box.
To add a file follow these steps:
1. Click Tools
2. Click Digital Drop Box
3. Click Add File
4. Give it a Name and any Comments you wish to go with it
5. Click Browse, then a box should popup and you will have to find the file
you want to attach on your computer. Once you find it click Open.
6. Now click Submit
7. A box willl popup telling you the file has not been sent yet and you
will need to click Send File in the Digital Drop Box to send it. Click OK.
8. Click OK again and now you should be back to your Digital Drop Box.
To send a file follow these steps:
1. If in the Digital Drop Box, go to Step 3, otherwise click Tools.
2. Click Digital Drop Box
3. Click Send File
4. Select the Users you want to send the file to
5. Then from the Select File drop-down box, select your file.
6. Click Submit
7. Click OK and that will take you back to the Digital Drop Box. Now your
file has been sent.
Apple
Quicktime
Shockwave
Player
Macromedia Flash Player
Authorware Player
Adobe
Acrobat Reader
Real
Networks Real Player
Microsoft
Media Player
PowerPoint
Viewer
To install each of them, click on the link, then a box should popup asking
your to open (run in some cases), save, or cancel. Select open/run, wait
for the download to finish, then the installer window should open. Just
keep clicking next until it finishes the setup. You may have to restart
your computer for some of them to install properly.