Blackboard users,
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
If you send an email today from your Blackboard class site to all the students in that class site, first year students who are new to UM will not receive the email. If you wait and send the email this coming Monday, everyone in your class site at that time (which will then include the first year students who are new to UM) will receive the eMail.
BACKGROUND
New first year students at UM see their schedules on MyUM two days before the first day of fall classes. Blackboard matches that release date. New first year students will be placed into their Blackboard course sites on the Sunday night/Monday morning before classes begin.
A difference between MyUM and Blackboard is what you can see. On MyUM you can see the class rosters, as I understand it, before the students can see their schedules. On Blackboard you can see the students in your class sites at the same time that students can see their schedules. So if you want to see who is in your class right now, including new first year students, go to My UM. If you want to send an email to everyone in your class, and you have any new first year students, wait until Monday to send the email.
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Bill Vilberg
8-3944 or 786-250-2255
