Sul Ross State University
A Member of the Texas State University System

SRSU Blackboard Information and Help

Blackboard is a web-based learning environment that enables instructors to enhance on-campus learning and/or deliver distance learning by bringing their course materials, class discussions, assignments and assessments (tests/quizzes) to the web. Your instructor will let you know if your class uses Blackboard or not.

Logging In To Blackboard

For Blackboard access and login instructions (how to get your Username and Password), view the New Student Tech Tips page.

SRSU Blackboard News (Fall 2009)

Please check out the Media & Instructional Technology Services Blog for the latest updates on SRSU support issues concerning Blackboard as well as New Media Technologies, Web 2.0 Resources, and much more. An RSS feed is available.

IMPORTANT: We continue to experience Internet Explorer browser problems with certain online testing in Blackboard. Our instructors should alert students if they are deployng an online test that necessitates the student using a different browser (we suggest the Mozilla Firefox browser) other than Internet Explorer browser to take the test.

In the meantime, if you are running both Internet Explorer v8 and Mozilla Firefox v3.5 on your computer, a multi-browser approach seems to be working best (use Firefox for taking online tests and you can use Internet Explorer for everything else if you wish).

Blackboard Academic Suite 8.0 Instructor's Manual

• HTML version
• PDF version

Bb 8.0 How-To's & Guides - Customized for Sul Ross Faculty

• Faculty Guide to Using Blackboard Academic Suite 8.0

Bb 8.0 How-To's & Guides - Customized for Sul Ross Students

• Student Guide to Using Blackboard Academic Suite 8.0

Bb 8.0 Tutorials, Tricks and Techniques From All Over

• New Features of Blackboard 8.0 (from Northern Illinois University)
• New Features in the Discussion Board/Forum Tool (from Boise State)
• Setting Up & Using Blackboard's Early Warning System (from University of North Florida)
• Blackboard 8.0 Grade Center FAQ and Flash Tutorials (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Online Blackboard Quiz (Question Pool) Generator (from College of Southern Idaho)

SRSU Blackboard Support Contact Information

If you are experiencing trouble with any area of Blackboard, you can contact the OIT Helpdesk for help. The OIT Helpdesk is available any time, day or night, seven days of the week.

• From on-campus call: 8765
• From off-campus call: (888) 691-5071

Tim Parsons, Alpine-RGC Blackboard Support
E-Mail: tparsons@sulross.edu
Phone: (432) 837-8668

John Rayburn, Alpine-RGC Blackboard System Admin and Support
E-Mail: jrayburn@sulross
Phone: (432) 837-8708

Letitia Wetterauer, Weekend Blackboard Support
E-Mail: lwet393@sulross.edu
Phone: (830) 703-4823

Mark Land, RGC Blackboard Support (Del Rio)
E-Mail: mland@sulross.edu
Phone: (830) 703-4818