This document provides tips for using Blackboard to support on-campus instruction. It recommends starting simple by posting announcements, grades, course materials, and managing papers in Blackboard. Discussion boards are highlighted as being helpful for online peer reviews and maintaining submissions with timestamps. SafeAssign is also noted as a tool for automatically scanning papers for plagiarism. Accommodations for visually or hearing impaired students through posted notes or journal submissions are suggested. The document also includes a link to an article about the changing digital divide between smartphone and computer users, and defines the categories of innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and traditional people in communication technology adoption.
