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Course Platform: Online vs Videoconferencing Courses
    Online courses may or not have campus meetings. Therefore, we recommend that you contact the 
    course instructor prior to the semester to learn if there will be any campus meeting for the online course
    you have enrolled for. When a course is offered entirely online, all course interactions among students
    and faculty happens via the Internet. Please read instructions below on online courses.

    Videoconferencing courses are campus bound. Each videoconferencing course usually links two campus
    classrooms with the professor being in one of them, and interacting with the remote students via
    videoconferencing equipment.

Online Courses: Most of the activities for your online course will take place via Blackboard (if your course is offered via Blackboard). The following present general information on this platform and how you can prepare to use it before your course starts. However, if your professor has informed you that s/he is not using Blackboard, please follow hers or his instructions.

·         Blackboard: In order to be able to use Blackboard, you must have an AccessNet account through Temple University. Please follow the directions above for obtaining an e-mail account on section 2. You can also get more detailed information on Blackboard by following the link to blackboard on Computer services’ website (www.temple.edu/cs). Once you login to Blackboard, click on the course you have registered and then go to the “resources” tab. There you will find useful information on Blackboard, navigation, technical support and many other features. 

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