What is Blackboard?

Blackboard is an on-line learning environment which provides a range of features and tools to support the on-line learner. It can be used to present whole lectures, or support materials to provide background to traditional face-to-face teaching and learning activities. It also offers a variety of communication tools to allow on-line learners to communicate with each other and their tutors and to participate in collaborative learning activities.

Access CAFRE Blackboard

If you are a campus based student you may already have paper-based learning materials prepared by your tutors, so you will be using Blackboard as a means of keeping up to date with your course, submitting assignments, and communicating with your fellow students on shared projects. Your tutor will also be able to offer you self-test questions so you can test your own understanding, and a source of exam preparation tools, such as quizzes, and access to your grades.

Accessing Blackboard

• To log on to Blackboard at CAFRE simply go to the log-on page at: ·www.online2.cafre.ac.uk·· Follow the Logon to myBlackboard link.
• You will then be prompted for your Blackboard ID and password. These should already have been given to you or sent to you by e-mail. If you have not yet received an ID or password, or if you experience any difficulties logging on, contact ·Martin Dempsey at CAFRE (Greenmount Campus).

Note: The first time you log in you will be asked to change your password. The default password you have been given is intended only to allow you initial access to Blackboard.

If you are using Blackboard from outside CAFRE it is important that you ensure your Browser is tuned for using Blackboard. This information is found from the 'Check Browser' link from the log-on page at: www.online2.cafre.ac.uk

Once you have logged on successfully, please complete the following task:

Task:  Edit your profile

• Click on the 'My Settings' link in the top right-hand area of your myBlackboard start page.
• Edit your 'My Tools Options' to select the mail forwarding option if you want copies of mail from Blackboard to be forwarded to your external email account. Then edit 'My Profile' to include the external email address if you have selected that copies of mail from Blackboard should be forwarded to an external email account.
• More details on how to do this, and other things in Blackboard are available once you log in to Blackboard

For more information on Blackboard at CAFRE, please contact Jane or Ronnie at CAFRE (Greenmount Campus) email: jane.picton@dardni.gov.uk or ronnie.hutchinson@dardni.gov.uk