Question
My students, who have been issued with a VU email account, say that they can not log in to WebCT/Blackboard. How can this be?
Answer
A student with a VU email address is by definition on VUSIS, so they can log in to WebCT/Blackboard. Any subject in which they are officially enrolled will appear in a master list on a page called "MyWebCT/Blackboard " which appears after using the login page.
The username is the VU student ID with a small "s" in front of it.
The default password is their birthday in the format ddmmyyyy - without separators between them (i.e. no / or -). A single digit date must have a leading 0; e.g. 1 January 1989 would be 01011989 for the month, and 4 digits for the year.
Common problems:
- Many students who complain that they can not log in are trying to use their VU ID as a username. They must put a lowercase "s" in front of the VU ID number to make it a WebCT username.
- Others have forgotten that they have changed their password and may be trying to use the default password - their birth date.
Useful links
WebCT/Blackboard login page
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