Blackboard provides four complimentary methods of communicating with students:

offer the professor a means of getting messages to the class; it is one-directional and information-oriented.

comprise a realtime "chat" tool that allows faculty and students to interact spontaneously. They are especially useful when the goal is informal and conversational.

are asynchronous "bulletin boards" used by faculty and students to participate in substantive academic exchanges.

allows class members to exchange email with the professor and between themselves as individuals, groups, or with an entire class.

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