To help us better serve you and to allow for collaboration, instructors should use Kent State’s suite of tools for delivering their class.

The learning management system (LMS), Blackboard (Bb) will be the central platform enabling you to communicate with your students.

A template will be added to any empty Bb course shells with instructions for use. If you already have content in your Bb course, no change will be made to your course.

The primary tools we anticipate faculty using to interact with their students are:

• Learning platform for course delivery – Blackboard (learn.kent.edu)
• Conducting a real-time lecture or class discussion – Collaborate (a link will be added to all Blackboard courses)
• Recording and posting presentation - Kaltura
• Sharing Classroom materials - Blackboard
• Assignments and Assessment - Blackboard, Proctorio, email, etc. 

Instructions for all of these tools can be found on the   How Do I…?   page.