Students can sign up via Rave Alerts to receive text or email messages from their Blackboard classes whenever a new announcement, grade or assignment is posted. It’s simple and faculty don’t need to do anything to enable this feature. By default all text and email alerts from Blackboard are turned off so students must opt in.
Rave Alerts are scheduled for delivery every 10 minutes, so if an instructor posts an announcement at 10:30 that class is cancelled for today, students who have signed up for text alerts should receive that message by 10:40.
How to Sign Up?
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Log into Blackboard
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Click on the Rave link in the Tools menu
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You will be automatically logged into Rave. If you have previously configured your Rave account with a cell phone number you can go ahead and select the classes and alerts you wish to receive. If you need to add your cell phone number to Rave see the instructions at Signing Up for Topper Text. If you have configured your Rave account you can go ahead and select the classes and areas from which to receive texts or emails.
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By default all text and email alerts are turned off. You can choose Default Settings that will automatically be applied to all Blackboard classes. Remember that every announcement, grade, assignment or calendar entry will automatically generate a text message. You may not want to get that many text messages for every Blackboard class.
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You can also choose to only get text or email from specific classes and specific areas. Click in the boxes in the column under Announcements, Calendar items, Assignments or Grades to enable text messages.