You can send email to your students (and they can send email to you) from within Blackboard. All students, faculty, and staff at USC have an email account on the University's Gamecock EMail system (GEM). By default your email address in Blackboard is set to your GEM account.
The same username and password that you use to access Blackboard will also allow you to access GEM. Your email address on the GEM system is (your username)@mailbox.sc.edu. You can read any mail sent to you at that address by going to http://webmail.sc.edu .
If you want your Blackboard email sent to an address other than GEM (for example Groupwise) you can change your email address in Blackboard by clicking on the "Personal Information" link in the upper left corner of the "My USC" screen (which is the first screen you see after you log in to Blackboard). Then click Edit Personal Information.
If you have problems or questions, please call Nancy Hart at 777-2897 or send e-mail to nancy.hart@sc.edu
