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Blackboard Communication Tools: Group Pages
The Blackboard Group Pages provide space for assigned groups of students to work together on and communicate about course projects. Instructors must turn on the Group Pages option through the course Control Panel; see the course instructor page for specific details. In addition, the instructor must create specific student groups; look at the Groups setup page to see how to create student groups.
Note: Students can only enter the Group Page of which they are a member.
- To go to the Group Pages, click on the Communications button and then choose Group Pages.
You will see all of the groups that exist for the course, with the name of the group as a link, and a description of the group.
- Click on the name of the Group to which you belong. Only groups to which you belong will be links.
- When you enter the group page, the Tools available to the group will be listed at the top of the screen. The names of the members and their e-mail addresses will appear below.
The instructor must enable each tool through Manage Groups under the User Management Control Panel.
- Four tools are potentially available. Each tool works like the one available to the entire class but is separate from it and the only group members may participate.
- Discussion Board -- the instructor must create a forum for the group to participate in a discussion
For help on using the Discussion board, click here.
- Collaboration -- this is a chat space for group members to use
Chat instructions are here.
- File Exchange -- this works just like the Student Drop Box; group members can send each other files; to see what files other members have sent you, look in the Drop Box on your Group Page
For a refresher on using Drop Boxes, click here.
- Send Email -- use this to send a message to the other members of your group
Mail instructions are available here.
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