This area allows you to send and receive private Email within your online classroom.  This Email has nothing to do with your regular Email address.  When you enter the Mail area, you'll see a menu summary of the mail items, including the number of unread items that are currently in your Inbox.  To see those unread items, click "Inbox." To view a mail message, click the link under the "Subject" column.

Because this is private Email, to send mail you will need to select the addresses by checking the boxes next to your fellow students' and/or instructor's Blackboard accounts. You will not be able to send Email to anyone who does not have access to the class (i.e. anyone outside of your teacher, classmates, and perhaps certain technical support staff).

You may notice that even though you only have a single instructor, one of the possible recipients for your email is titled "All Section Instructors." This title is automatically generated; this is how you would contact your instructor through Blackboard Vista Mail whether you have just one instructor or several. 

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