Accessing and using group tools

Blackboard has the ability to create separate private group areas within your…Blackboard course for you and a small group of students.…Think of this like a project team area.…This group area is completely private.…Only you, your group members, and your instructor can access this group area.…Within that group area you'll find a collection of Blackboard tools like Blogs,…Collaboration, Discussion Board, you can send email that only the group members…will receive, a File Exchange, you can upload files that only members of the…group will see, and much more.…

There are three possible types of Blackboard groups.…The first are ones that you create as a student and this may not be available…in your Blackboard course.…The second are ones where you can choose to manually enroll in an existing…Blackboard group, and this also may not be available.…And third, and these are much more commonplace, are ones that your instructor…creates and automatically enrolls you in.…We're going to show you all three.…To access Blackboard's Groups area, click on the Groups link on the Course menu.…