Blackboard Parentlink is the approved communication tool for Fort Worth ISD. It allows teachers and administrators to send email, SMS and phone messages to all or select students in a class.

Student and parent contact information is populated directly from FOCUS and can be updated by the campus data clerk. Teachers are unable to make changes to these contacts.

Once you have successfully reset your Blackboard password and logged in, you should be automatically logged in when you access it through the ClassLink portal in the future. If you are prompted to login again in the future, remember to use your email address as your Login ID and your new password.

For a list of the steps in the tutorial, click here.

Log into your Parentlink account. If you have not already done so, you will need to reset your password.

Once you are logged in, create a new message. In your message, try to do the following:

• Select 1 whole class (parents and students), only the students in another class, and only a few select parents in a third class as the recipients of your message

• Draft your message as an email, SMS and phone call

• Record your phone message using your microphone

• Schedule your message for tomorrow at 4pm

• Translate your message into Spanish

Please note that you do not need to send your message.