BLACKBOARD

Logging in to Blackboard© and Getting a Password

 

Blackboard© is course management software utilized at Morningside College for the partial or total delivery of Web-based graduate courses.  You must be officially enrolled in a course before you are allowed to access the course in Blackboard©.  In addition, you need to know your username and have a password to login to the course Web site.   

 

Login

You access your course Web site at the Blackboard© login page at:

 

            http://blackboard.morningside.edu

 

Click on the User Login button on the left hand side of the screen.  Enter your username and password in the textboxes on the next screen.  After you have entered your username and password, click on the Login button directly below the text boxes.

 

The next screen will be a welcome page with your name on it and the courses in which you are enrolled.  Click on the course name to enter that course.

 

Username

Your student Blackboard© username is your 7-digit student ID number, including any leading zeros (for example, 0025830).  Your student ID number was issued to you when you applied to Morningside College; it also appears on your grade reports. 

 

Password

If you have previously used Blackboard© for a Morningside course, you will already have a password--one that was given to you or one that you created.  That password is valid until you change it.  If, however, you have not used Blackboard before or if you have forgotten your password, you will need to set/reset your own password.  Use the following steps to create your password:

  • Go to the Blackboard login page and click the “Forgot password?” link that is located right below the password box. 
  • On the next screen you have two options.  You enter your first and last name and EITHER your student ID number or the e-mail address you gave us when you registered for the class.  If what you enter matches the name and e-mail address that is in your registration record, a link for changing the Blackboard password will be e-mailed to you at the e-mail address you gave us.  This happens almost instantaneously. 
  • Go to your e-mail account and find the e-mail.  Open the e-mail and click on the link provided.  You will be taken to a screen that asks you to enter the password you have chosen (you enter it twice).  Type it in and click Submit.  
  • Go back to Blackboard and login with your username and password.

 

If you have difficulty obtaining your password, you may be entering a nickname or name other than that which you gave us when you were admitted, or you may be entering an e-mail address that is different from the one you gave us when you registered for the course.   Call the Graduate Office at 800-831-0806 for assistance with names, IDs, and e-mail addresses.  Please do not contact the Graduate Office unless you have read these directions carefully and then made several unsuccessful attempts to get a password.