Blackboard is a course management system used at Athens State University to provide online access to course materials for every course we offer, including traditional, distance, teleconference, and blended courses. • All active students have already been assigned a Blackboard account. To access your account, please use your full Webmail address and your 6-digit PIN from your ASU Online account to log into Blackboard. • Student access to course work posted on Blackboard begins on the first day of the term as published in the printed schedule on a per-course basis (weekend & half-term courses have different start dates than full-term courses). Early entrance to your courses is not possible. • Changing your PIN in your Web for Students account is not instantaneous and could take up to 3 days to take effect in Blackboard (and Webmail), as this program only runs hourly during ASU business hours Monday thru Friday. • If you are attempting to connect from behind a firewall, you must allow access to ports 7755 and 8081 in order to use Blackboard and its chatting features. • To avoid access problems with any of our services, you should add the following URLs to your browser's list of trusted websites: athens.blackboard.com athens.wimba.com athens2.wimba.com/athens2 tegrity.athens.edu webmail.athens.edu • If you use America Online to connect to the Internet, do not use AOL's browser to log into Blackboard. You must minimize AOL after you're connected and launch Internet Explorer 6 or FireFox to login. Recent changes to AOL's browser will almost definitely prohibit your Blackboard access to one degree or another.