Blackboard

Blackboard is an online classroom management tool. It includes a gradebook, an announcements page, and a facility for administering online tests and quizzes.

• Course Announcements will be posted to Blackboard.

• Midterm exams will be administered through Blackboard.

• Your course grades can be accessed through Blackboard.

• In addition to the email communication, communication will be done through the Discussion Board that is part of the course's Blackboard site.

• Blackboard's URL is http://acconline.austincc.edu.

  • This is the URL for ACC's Blackboard site.

  • Do not go to blackboard.com the company's own site.

If you have not created your new ACC Username or Password through ACCeID Manager, then please go to the ACCeID website.

• Do not fill in your Username and Password on this page, since you do not have either yet. DO CLICK on “First Time Login.”

• Your ACCeID will be the first letter of your legal, given, first name, and your seven-digit ACC ID number.

  • For example, fictional student John Keynes might have this Username j0067701.

• Once you submit this Username, just follow the instructions.

• First-day students can access Blackboard, typically the day after regular registration ends.

• Helpful Hints

  • Once you are logged into ACC's Blackboard site, the easiest way to navigate this course's Blackboard content is accessed by first clicking on the "Courses" tab in the upper left-hand corner of the first Blackboard page that comes up.

  • Then click on the name of the course: 219U-81749-ECON-2301-026: Principles of Macroeconomics (81749).

  • You are then taken to the course's main Blackboard page. It is much easier to find the "Assignments" button, the "Course Calendar" button, and the "Exams" button, where the links to the online exams can be found, by doing this than if you try to navigate from the very first page that comes up when you log onto Blackboard.