Wake Technical Community College: Distance Education

Online Student Orientation

Blackboard is the delivery system for online courses at Wake Tech. Follow the steps below to begin your orientation to Blackboard.

NOTE
: Students must wait until the first day of the semester to login to online courses. Students registering after the semester begins may experience a delay in access. Contact your instructor if you are unable to enter Blackboard by the end of the first week of the semester.

  1. Complete the Online Student Orientation. It contains instructions for using Blackboard.
    Go to the Wake Tech's Blackboard login page, click on the login button, and enter Blackboard with the following username and password:

    Orientation Username: student
    Orientation Password: online

    Open the orientation by clicking on the Online Student Orientation link that appears in the My Courses box on the right-hand side of Blackboard's welcome page.

    CAUTION: You will not find your online courses in the Orientation. To enter your online courses, you must log out of the orientation and then reenter Blackboard with your personal username and password. Go to the FAQs for username and password instructions.
     

  2. To view the syllabus, schedule, or other important information for your online class before class begins, follow the instructions for course preview.
     

  3. Follow the instructions for logging into your Blackboard account.
     

  4. If you encounter problems, contact your instructor or distance education support.
     

  5. Visit the College's Library online to become familiar with the resources that are available on the Web.

 

 

Contact Distance Education Support

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