Student Blackboard Guide
You need a username and password to log into the UMB campus Blackboard system. Your Blackboard username is your UMnet ID.
If your name is Ace Student and your UMnet email address is astud001@umaryland.edu, your UMnet ID would be astud001.
The first time you use Blackboard your password is your
Student Identification Number which starts with an @ sign.
It is the same number you use to log into the SURFS system.
- Blackboard is located at http://law.blackboard.umaryland.edu.
- Enter your Username.
- Enter your Password.
Your Student Identification Number until changed.
- You may press the Enter key or click the Login button.
You should now see a page with your current courses listed in the right-hand column.
Although students are automatically enrolled into Blackboard courses after they have registered using SURFS, there are opportunities to
Self Enroll in group sponsored courses such as, Career Development and the annual Paul Cordish Writing Competition.
After you have logged into Blackboard you may search for a course that allows self enrollment.
- Select the Courses tab.
- Enter the word Cordish in the Course Search box.
- Click the Go button.
- Click the Enroll button to the right of the listed course.
- The Self Enrollment page opens. Click the Submit button.
- You will receive a Success message. Click the OK button to enter the selected course.
- You will now see the course title displayed on the front page of the selected course.
Submitting a File in Blackboard:
Assignment Link v. the Digital Drop Box
Blackboard provides you with two different tools - The Assignment Link and the Digital Drop Box - to submit files to your instructors. Before submitting any file you should always make sure you know which tool your instructor is using. Otherwise, your instructor may not receive your submission on time.
If your instructor is using the Assignment Tool you will see the Assignment icon followed by a description and a link that begins with the underlined words View/Complete Assignment.
The Assignment Tool allows your instructor to set a Due Date as well as include instructions, attach files, and provide feedback which will all be contained within your assignment package. When you Submit an assignment all files and comments that you supply will be added to your assignment package.
- Select the View/Complete Assignment: link.
- You will see a page with instructions for your Assignment.
- Your instructor may also attach files and they will appear at the bottom
of the Assignment Information section.
- To submit an Assignment you must provide a Comment.
- You may attach a file by clicking the Browse button.
- Locate your file by using the Choose file window and click the
Open button.
- Click the Add Another File button to add more files.
- If you are not ready to submit your work, click the Save
button to save the text and/or attached files that you have
supplied so far.
WARNING: Using the Save button is not recommended.
If you miss the submission deadline you will not be able to access this link and your instructor will not receive your file.
- When you're ready to send your work to your instructor click the Submit button.
- You will receive a message that your assignment has been updated when you use either the Save or Submit buttons.
- Select the View/Complete Assignment: link.
- The Assignment Completed: Assignment Name
message opens. Click the OK button to view
instructor feedback.
- Feedback will be in the Comments section.
- Click the OK button when you're finished reviewing feedback.
You may check back to the Assignment Completed: Assignment Name link
to see if your instructor has sent additional feedback.
Using the Digital Drop Box
The Digital Drop Box will allow students to send to, and
receive files from, their instructors.
Caution: The most important thing
to remember about the digital drop box is that adding
a file alone does not send the file to your instructor.
You must send the file for your instructor
to actually receive it.
To access the Digital Drop Box, click on the link
for your course.
- The Digital Drop Box is located in the Course
Tools section of your course. Select the
Course Tools link from the course
menu on the left-hand side of the page.
- Click on the Digital Dropbox
link from the Tools page.
- Click the Send File button.
- Use your own name to identify the file unless instructed to use a number.
- Click the Browse button to locate
your file.
- You may supply a comment in the Comments
box.
- Click the Submit button to send
the file.
- You will receive a Success message.
Click the OK button to go back
to your course Digital Drop Box.
- The date and time of file submission is displayed.
Please print a copy of this page for your records.
- Click the OK button to return
to the Tools page.
Your instructor may send a file to your private drop box.
- Select the Course Tools link
on the left-side of your course front page.
- Select the Digital Dropbox link
from the Tools page.
- Select the name of the file you wish to save.
- Click the Save button to save
the file.
- To remove a file click the Remove button displayed to the right of the filename.
- Click the Ok button to confirm
that you want to remove the file.
- you will receive a Success message.
Click the OK button to return to
your dropbox.
When you add a file it is stored
in your dropbox, but not sent to
your instructor. You must send the file for your instructor
to receive it.
- Select the Course Tools link on the left-side of your course front page.
- Select the Digital Dropbox link from the Tools page.
- Click the Add File button.
- Name your file beginning with your name or assigned number to properly identify your file.
- Click the Browse button to locate your file.
- You may supply a comment in the Comments input text box.
- Click the Submit button to add the file.
- You will receive a message that the file will be added, not sent. Click the OK button
to add the file to your dropbox without sending it to your instructor.
- You will receive a Success message. Click the OK button to return to your dropbox.
