Access Blackboard

1. Login to davenport.edu
   • First time log in
     • User ID: received upon admission
     • Password: student ID#

2. From the Student Connection page, click 

   

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Access Your Class

Your classes won't appear until 3 days before the semester starts

Click Courses in Blackboard's navigation menu

Navigate Inside Your Course

See Blackboard's Navigate Inside a Course Tutorial

Download Your Syllabus

Click Syllabus (in the side navigation within your course)

Get General Information

Usually in Weekly Materials (within Learning Hub section of the side navigation)

Submit Assignments

Generally you'll click Assignments (within Assignment Submission section of the side navigation).

• See also Blackboard's Submit Assignments Tutorial

Change My Submitted File

If you submitted the wrong file:

1. Contact your instructor so they can reset it
2. Submit a different file

Submit After the Due Date

If there is no place to submit the assignment after the due date, your instructor has set it that way. Contact them to see if they will allow you to submit it late with a penalty.

Access and Use the Discussion Board

See Blackboard's Discussions Tutorial

Your instructors may use SafeAssign to check your papers for an originality score (what percent of your paper can be found elsewhere and is not your original writing).

You can tell if your assignment has SafeAssign activated if you see a SafeAssign statement and a list of supported file types on the submission page. See also Blackboard's Assignments and SafeAssign Tutorial.

Some instructors allow you to see the Originality Report, others do not. You can talk to your instructor and see if they will change the setting that allows students in their class to see it. See also Blackboard's SafeAssign Originality Report Tutorial.

Take a Test

See Blackboard's Take a Test or Survey Tutorial

Your Test Submitted Prematurely

1. Check if your test has submitted yet.
   1. Close and reopen your browser
   2. Go back to your test
   3. See if it's still accessible
2. If it did prematurely submit, contact your instructor to reset it
   1. If the test was not set to Force Completion, it will begin where you were interrupted
   2. If the test was set to Force Completion, you will have to start over if the instructor allows

The Answers Aren't Saving—Help!

If you get a message the question wasn't saved, you won't be able to get it going again without either:

1. Clearing your cache (for most browsers, if you hold down the Ctrl, Shift & Delete Key together, you can get to the right choices to clear), closing the browser, and then restarting, or 
2. Trying a different browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.)

If the test has submitted and you can't resume it, see Your Test Submitted Prematurely (above)

See Blackboard's Grades Tutorial

Contact DU's Student Support

• Phone: 877-899-1499
• Open a Ticket
• Regular Hours:
  • Monday - Friday: 7:00am - 9:00pm

Video Tutorials

See Blackboard's Video Tutorials

Blackboard Learn Help

See Blackboard's Blackboard Learn Help for Students Tutorial