Mobile Learn Quicksheet

What is Blackboard Mobile Learn? The Blackboard Mobile Learn app allows students and staff to access their Blackboard sites wherever and whenever they want through two-way interactions on mobile devices. Blackboard Mobile Learn is available for most popular mobile platforms, including Android™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad®, BlackBerry® and Palm® webOS™.

What can you do with Blackboard Mobile Learn? http://www.blackboard.com/resources/mobile/mobile_learn_splash/desktop/index.html

• Announcements - Assignment due? Class cancelled?This is the place where instructors go to post the newsstudents need to know. Students have instant, on-the-go access to the latest announcements, and instructorscan post announcements anywhere, anytime.

• Discussions - The Discussion Board is a key coursecommunication tool for engaging students andpromoting learning. It’s the place students ask andanswer questions, and where instructors can respondto one student for the benefit of all. With BlackboardMobile Learn, instructors and students can reviewand post to threaded discussions, as well as create newthreads, all while on the go.

• Grades - Want to know how you did on the midtermor your last assignment? Students can view theirgrades right here.

• Blogs - Read blog posts and interact with classmatesby posting comments on their blogs or responding tocomments on your own.

• Tasks - Help students track and manage the progressof various tasks, from submitting assignments toreminders to attend a tutorial or purchase a textbook.Tasks allow students to mark when they’ve started aproject, when it’s in progress, and when complete.

• Media - Students can access music, videos and imagesuploaded by their instructors and experience directlyfrom their mobile devices using the appropriatemedia-specific software.

• Journals - Read and reflect on your Journal posts andthose of your classmates. Both students and instructorscan comment on Journals.

Requirements

Apple devicesiPhone/iPod Touch: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blackboard-mobile-learn-for/id376413870

iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blackboard-mobile-learn/id364252826

Android devicesAndroid: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.blackboard.android

BlackBerry devicesBlackBerry: http://www.blackboard.com/resources/mobile/mobile_learn_splash/desktop/index.html#blackberry

How do I connect to Blackboard?

iPad1. Launch the Blackboard Mobile Learn for iPad

application

2. Search for ‘Southern Cross University’

3. Authenticate with your SCU credentials

4. Select from your sites

SCU Blackboard Mobile Learn

Mobile Learn Quicksheet

iPod/iPhone 4. Select from your sites 3. Authenticate with your SCU credentials 1. Launch the Blackboard Mobile Learn for iPhone

application

2. Search for ‘Southern Cross University’

4. Select from your sites

3. Authenticate with your SCU credentials (Note: it’ll help to expand your screen using the “pinch and zoom” gesture)

Android 1. Launch the Blackboard Mobile Learn for Android

application

2. Search for ‘Southern Cross University’