{"id":76686,"date":"2014-04-24T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=76686"},"modified":"2026-08-30T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:23:55","slug":"interact_with_students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/teaching\/lms\/blackboard\/instructors\/interact_with_students\/","title":{"rendered":"Interact with Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Instructors have many tools and features within Blackboard that foster communication and engagement with students in their courses. These tools are designed to promote collaboration, self-reflection, and community building, allowing instructors to tailor their communication strategies to course goals and student needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/messages.html\" title=\"Messages\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Messages<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/automations.html\" title=\"Automations\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Automations<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/roster.html\" title=\"Roster\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Roster<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/student-overview.html\" title=\"Student Overview\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Student Overview<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/discussions.html\" title=\"Discussions\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Discussions<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/announcements.html\" title=\"Announcements\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Announcements<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/groups.html\" title=\"Groups\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Groups<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/journals.html\" title=\"Journals\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Journals<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/record-audio-and-video.html\" title=\"Record Audio and Video\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Record Audio and Video<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\"><a class=\"xref linktype-component\" href=\"https:\/\/help.anthology.com\/blackboard\/instructor\/en\/interact-with-students\/achievements.html\" title=\"Achievements\"><span class=\"xreftitle\">Achievements<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructors have many tools and features within Blackboard that foster communication and engagement with students in their courses. These tools are designed to promote collaboration, self-reflection, and community building, allowing instructors to tailor their communication strategies to course goals and student needs. Messages Automations Roster Student Overview Discussions Announcements Groups Journals Record Audio and Video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1303,"featured_media":0,"parent":61284,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76686"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162971,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76686\/revisions\/162971"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}