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How To Links: Email and Blackboard Basics

 

 

Basic Internet skills needed for this class:

Skills you need:

Acquire a UL Webmail email account
Create a signature file
Send email messages to professor and classmates
Send attachments to professor and classmates
Use reply and reply with quote features in email/Blackboard messages
Login and access course information on Blackboard
Set preferences in Blackboard
Post messages and attachments to Discussion Boards in Blackboard

 

Get those skills here:

Harnessing Email
Excellent websites (Learn the Net) from About Internet for Beginners. Be sure to check out the Animated Internet feature!
Common Sense Netiquette Rules and Introduction to Network Netiquette
will help you sort our the dos and don'ts of using email, chat, listservs, and other forms of telecommunication
Try CliffsNotes!!
Yes, for $8.99 charged to your credit card, CliffsNotes will download approximately 100 pages worth of guide to using the Internet (which includes a section on setting up an Internet email account). The titles you would request are Finding what you want on the Web. Of course, you can also buy the books at Office Depot!

Posting Messages to Blackboard
Quickie directions!