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Both Brooklyn College and CUNY
maintain a number of online systems that are integral to
your academic experience: the BC WebCentral Portal, the
CUNY Portal and Blackboard in particular.
BC WEBCENTRAL PORTAL
BC WebCentral is maintained by Brooklyn College and
allows one-stop access to BC web applications and
services. You can access WebSIMS, WebMail, your degree
progress report, class schedules, grades and many other
useful tools. BC WebCentral will be continually expanded
with the latest services.
Set up your BC WebCentral Portal account
- Go to
http://portal.brooklyn.edu or from
the College's
home page and click on the BC WebCentral Portal
button.
- Choose Create a Central ID and follow the steps
- Once created, your new Central ID will give you
access to all web applications and services within
BC WebCentral.
- IMPORTANT: Please verify your preferred
email address at the end of step 4, since this
address will be used by the college, and Bb, for all
official email communications and grade mailings.
You will also be able to change this email from the
My Personal Info channel in BC WebCentral.
NB: please wait 48 hours after setting up the BC
WebCentral Portal before setting up your Blackboard
account!
WHAT IS BLACKBOARD?
Blackboard is the on-line learning and course support
tool of the Brooklyn College community.
Professors can:
- Post syllabi, reading lists and
assignments on-line.
- Store electronic documents and other
reading materials for student's use.
- Set up a course calendar.
Students can:
- Submit assignments via the internet.
- Easily communicate with Professors,
Teaching Assistants and fellow students via
e-mail and real time chat.
- View their grades.
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SET UP YOUR ACCOUNT If you are a Brooklyn College
student, faculty or staff member, a Blackboard account
has been reserved for you! Before using it, you must
first set the account up, specifying your account
preferences. As of the Spring 2005 semester, Blackboard
is accessed through the CUNY portal; account usernames
and passwords from previous semesters will not work.
To set up your account:
1. From any internet computer visit the CUNY portal at
http://portal.cuny.edu
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3. For your one-time account setup, click on Register
Now!
4. You will be given several options. If you are a
student, click on Student
| 5. On the User validation screen, enter your
last name (case not important) your 9 digit
Social Security number and your birthday. Click
the Next button.
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6. On the following screen confirm that the
information you have entered is correct. Click
Confirm if it is. If you made a mistake click
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7. Now you must select a user name. The sign
on process will choose one for you (usually your
first initial and last name) but you may change
this if you wish. After the user name, select a
password (your choice, though it must be at
least six characters, all numbers and letters,
no spaces or punctuation) and enter it twice.
Enter your e-mail address as well. This will be
made available to your Professor and fellow
students. After checking your information for
correctness, click on the Save button.
8. You have completed the account set-up. Be
sure to write down your username and password.
Please see the next page for logging-in
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LOGGING ON TO BROOKLYN COLLEGE BLACKBOARD
Once you have set-up your account, you may now log into
Blackboard from any internet computer!
To Log-on to Blackboard:
1. From any internet computer visit the CUNY portal at
http://portal.cuny.edu.
2. Choose Log-in
3. Enter your username
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4. From My Page click on the Blackboard link
5. You will see a list of all CUNY schools (you
may visit any one by clicking on Guest). To go
to your personal Blackboard page, click on
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6. You will be brought to your own Brooklyn College
Blackboard page!
THE BLACKBOARD WELCOME SCREEN
The Welcome screen brings you an overview of important
tools and information on all of your Blackboard
participating courses without having to access a
specific course website.
TOOLS - Here you will find all functions of Blackboard
(calendar, e-mail portal, etc.) for all of your
Blackboard accessible classes in one convenient place.
MY ANNOUNCMENTS - Your Professor's announcements, such
as "quiz this Tuesday" and "all term papers due in 1
week" will appear in this box.
MY CALENDAR - Important dates sent from your Professors
and dates that you have marked important yourself.
MY COURSES - A list of your Blackboard participating
courses. The courses will appear here automatically! To
gain access to a course website, simply click on its
name!
Having problems with the Blackboard site or portal?!?
Call the staff of ITS for help!! (718) 677-6180
Or click on Portal Help on the opening screen
Is the CUNY portal down? Sluggish? Non-responsive? Try
the
Blackboard back door at
https://blackboard-doorway.cuny.edu/
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