Suggestions for Blackboard Orientation Sessions:

• Logging Students into the Network for the first time

• Demonstrate features of Blackboard you intend to use in your course, particularly showing students
  • how to open, print and download documents, such as course notes
  • how to send an email to the teacher through Blackboard
• Ensure that students understand your policies about email and that they understand how to use Algonquin email. 
• Provide hand outs, such as the Algonquin Qwik Guide to Blackboard or the Student Orientation to Blackboard handout (both of which can be downloaded from the support site at http://elearning.algonquincollege.com/blackboard).

To be able to use the network, students must log in to ACSIS (Algonquin College Student Information System) at http://acsis.algonquincollege.com, and note their

• network username,
• network password and
• ACSIS password.

Notes:

1. Students log in to ACSIS the first time using their Student Number and Date of Birth (in 12-mar-1983 format). They will be asked to accept a user agreement and to set a new password.
2. Students use Network Information (in the left menu) to discover their network username and password.
3. Note that Student PINs are no longer printed on student timetables!

Recommended approaches:

1. In a computer lab, the teacher logs in to three or four machines and students come up in groups and log in to ACSIS and get their network usernames and passwords
2. Teachers direct students to Student Monitors in General Access Labs or to the Online Learning Centre for assistance.