Step-By-Step
Student Homepages
(Text version)

1. Blackboard provides all student accounts on a course site with a Student Homepage. This is a simple web page build into each course site for students to post information about themselves to share with other member of the course site.

2. To access your Student Homepage:

• Log into the Blackboard course site as usual.
• Go to Tools / Edit Your Homepage. This will display the Student Homepage form.
  
• Under section #1, you can add an intro message in the "Introduction Message" box and personal information is the "Personal Information" box.
  
• Under section #2, you can upload an image of yourself. The image must be in either JPG, GIF or PNG format and should be sized no greater than 300 x 300 pixels. To upload an image, click on the "Browse" button. This will display your computer's file locater dialogue box. Using the dropdown box on the top of the file locator, locate the directory and folder that contains the image file you want to post. Click on the name of the file then click on the "Open" button on the file locator. The locator dialogue box will disappear and the path to the image file will be located in the box next to the "Browse" button.
• If you want to remove an image file you posted earlier, checkmark the "Remove this Image" checkbox. You cannot remove an old image and upload a new one at the same time. If you want to replace an image with a new one, first remove the old image then go back to the Student Homepage form and add a new one.
  
• Under section #3, you can add up to 3 web site links. Type in a title, the complete URL and a description for each site.
  
• When you are finished, click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page. A receipt will be displayed telling you that your page has been updated. You can return to this page and edit it at any time.

3. To view your Student Homepage or the Homepages of other students in your course site:

• Go to Communication / Roster. This will display a search box for locating student accounts on the course site.
• Click on the "Search" button (without typing anything in the search box). This will list all of the student accounts in the class.
• Click on the name of a student. This will display that student's Homepage.
• As an alternative, you can type in a student's last name in the search box and then click on the "Search" button. This will display all of the student's on the course site having that last name. Click on the name of a student to display that student's Homepage.

4. All student Homepage information and images are deleted from the course site when the student account is removed from the course site.

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