All Students, Faculty and Staff at Okanagan College can make use of Blackboard. It can be accessed from any computer with a web browser and an internet connection. At any given time Okanagan College has in excess of 4,500 online course areas on Blackboard being used across the College in a variety of different ways; ranging from simply making lecture notes available online through to course areas which actively support collaboration between campus-based and distance learning students.

What can I do with it?

There are a large number of ways in which Blackboard can be used. These are just a few examples of what you can do with the tools provided:

• Put learning materials online
• Create discussion forums for your course allowing students to interact with each other and with you
• Create and distribute podcasts
• Create online quizzes, surveys and self assessments for students
• Allow students to submit courseworks online and release grades and feedback to them
• Allow students to keep online journals which can be shared with other students or kept private
• Create “voice messaging” boards
• Keep students informed about important events through course announcements
• Create chat rooms to provide students with a forum for online collaboration
• Create a library of links to useful resources on the web and allow students to add to these when they find something useful themselves
• Hold an online seminar using a chat room and a shared whiteboard
• Create an image library
• Provide your students with an area to create an e-portfolio of their work
• Have a course calendar to allow students to keep track of important events and deadlines

Getting Access

You may access Blackboard after logging in to myOkanagan at; http://myokanagan.bc.ca and clicking the Blackboard link in the top right hand corner of the page.

Your Blackboard account is automatically created when you are registered or assigned to a course at Okanagan College.  If you have any difficulties logging into myOkanagan or accessing your courses on Blackboard, please contact the IT Services Helpdesk at 1-866-839-4032 or 250-762-5445 EXT. 4444.