U of S Course Tools (Blackboard)
U of S Course Tools is an electronic classroom environment that allows you to access course materials online; submit assignments electronically, see your Grades, receive announcements from your instructor, communicate with instructors and others in class through online chat, or email; maintain a calendar, and more.
Course homepages are created for every U of S credit course. Instructors, as designated in the student information system, can enable and use course tools to suit their instructional needs. The U of S Course Tools are accesible via the PAWS My Courses channel or by clicking the Course Tools icon in the top-right-hand corner of your PAWS window. Even if other systems (e.g. One-45 or Moodle) are used for course content or management, students and instructors are encouraged to use PAWS as the way to access any services for course content.
Blackboard is a course management system (or learning management system) that provides an integrated set of tools to support online content delivery, learning communities, and assessment. It can be used to support courses that are completely online or used to augment a course delivered face-to-face, by satellite, etc.
Creation of courses, identification of instructors, and placing students into courses in Blackboard is handled automatically based on current information in the student registration system. Alternatively, courses in Blackboard which do not correspond to a class in the student registration system can be created and populated manually.
