Step-By-Step
Electric Blackboard Notepad
(Text version)

1. Blackboard provides all users with a course site notepad called Electric Blackboard. This is a simple notepad build into each course site for students to write and store memos or notes. Each user has their own Electric Blackboard note pad for each course site. The content of the notepads cannot be shared among students.

2. To access your Electric Blackboard notepad:

• Log into the Blackboard course site as usual.
• Go to Tools / Electric Blackboard. This will open a small window containing the notepad. (Note: Instructors have the ability to block this functions so it may not be available to all students on all course sites).
• Type or cut and paste comments into the notepad window.
• When you are finished, click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the window. A receipt will be displayed telling you that the notepad has been updated. Click "OK" to return to the notepad window.
• When you exit Blackboard be sure to close this window by clicking on the "X" in the upper right hand corner of the window.
• Comments submitted to the notepad are saved on the Blackboard server. The next time you open the Electric Blackboard in that course site your comments will be displayed.
• To remove comments from the notepad, select the text you want removed and click on the delete button on your keyboard.
  
• The material saved in your Electric Blackboard will remain on the server until the end of the semester. When your account is removed from the Blackboard course site all of the material in the Electric Blackboard notepad is deleted.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Step-By-Step procedure contact the Tufts Blackboard Administrator at: nhirsig@tufts.edu